Anyone else having issues using bitpay or other crypto wallets?

[91Eunozs]

Been trying to buy some more physical gold using crypto for a week now but no joy. Have accounts at APMEX and JM Bullion, and both ostensibly take crypto, but every time it locks up during the pay phase. Confirmed my wallets are linked to bitpay.

Even ensured the VPN is turned off and cleared my cache.

Got on with an online chat earlier today at JM Bullion, but now they’re all offline for Easter weekend.

Really, really don’t want to put it on a credit card, and then pay it off w/the crypto…too many fees involved. Probably easiest at this point to just cash out, and wait for it to fund and do it via ACH/bank check.

I know… #1stworldproblems

 

[Animal357]

hmmm. Problems with a fake currency based on nothing, backed by nothing and protected by nothing.... Who woulda thunk?

 

[91Eunozs]

Exactly why I’m buying more physical gold.

 

[HeavyAssault]

When the national debt gets paid off, is gold going to be worth anything?

 

[Hobo Hilton]

When the national debt gets paid off, is gold going to be worth anything?

Let us in on the secret of how the national debt will get paid off.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

Been trying to buy some more physical gold using crypto for a week now but no joy. Have accounts at APMEX and JM Bullion, and both ostensibly take crypto, but every time it locks up during the pay phase. Confirmed my wallets are linked to bitpay.

Even ensured the VPN is turned off and cleared my cache.

Got on with an online chat earlier today at JM Bullion, but now they’re all offline for Easter weekend.

Really, really don’t want to put it on a credit card, and then pay it off w/the crypto…too many fees involved. Probably easiest at this point to just cash out, and wait for it to fund and do it via ACH/bank check.

I know… #1stworldproblems

Have you tried buying it from Walmart ?

Robot or human?

 

[NoDopes]

Let us in on the secret of how the national debt will get paid off.

He's referring to the Ukrainian national debt. US taxpayers will pay it off. Gold will skyrocket.
Any other questions?

 

[Hobo Hilton]

He's referring to the Ukrainian national debt. US taxpayers will pay it off. Gold will skyrocket.
Any other questions?

When gold skyrockets, what will happen to the value of the USD ?

 

[HeavyAssault]

When gold skyrockets I hope people stop complaining about the amount of US Debt. You can’t have it both ways.

 

[NoDopes]

hope people stop complaining about the amount of US Debt.

The people with gold will stop, not sure about the rest.

 

[supercorndogs]

What will be done with gold? Last time they made it illegal to own and collected it correct?

 

[NoDopes]

What will be done with gold? Last time they made it illegal to own and collected it correct?

What was the compliance rate?
What was the compliance rate in the Illinois assault weapons registration requirements?
How many body bags do they have?

 

[jrhtx]

What was the compliance rate?
What was the compliance rate in the Illinois assault weapons registration requirements?
How many body bags do they have?

I don't know about a percentage of compliance but my grandmother told me that the "revenuers" were at banks and if you accessed your safety deposit box, they inspected to box for gold & coins.

Grandmother had an OLD leather small coin purse she said she kept in the SDB. She managed to keep a 1 gold coin they didn't get.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

I don't know about a percentage of compliance but my grandmother told me that the "revenuers" were at banks and if you accessed your safety deposit box, they inspected to box for gold & coins.

Grandmother had an OLD leather small coin purse she said she kept in the SDB. She managed to keep a 1 gold coin they didn't get.

I would love to go back and live out my life during the time your grandmother spoke of.. Maybe even go back to around 1800...
Unfortunately we live in a much different world. We have watched big money buy politicians. Now we have governments simply buying people.
Amazing how cheap a person will sell their soul for.

 

[91Eunozs]

As stated in the other thread, not buying gold as an investment…I have other mechanisms for those purpose.

Buying gold as a hedge; a backstop. Gold isn’t worth more than it was a year ago, the US dollar simply buys less due to inflation; soon to be hyperinflation if we go the way every other civilization has gone in recorded history.

Regardless of why I’m buying it, getting back to the original question: “Is anyone else having issues making purchases with their crypto wallets?”

 

[91Eunozs]

Have you tried buying it from Walmart ?

Robot or human?

Walmart is just a pass through; their precious metals are sold through APMEX, where I already have an account. Just fewer options via Walmart.

What’s funny is that other than the “silver rounds” I bought from Silver Shield/Silver Bullet, probably 75% of all my precious metal purchases have actually been shipped from Money Metals (where I also happen to have an account)…regardless of whether I purchased it from APMEX, JM Bullion, or Money Metals.

 

[JoshPutman]

 

[91Eunozs]

I mentioned I have other mechanisms for investing…

Precious metals indeed. I’m not in Army Jerry territory, but in the words of one of my shooting group’s younger members: “There’s no statistically feasible way you outlive your ammo supply”

My investments are varied, but the ones I’m betting on to pay off the most are the time and resources for training my son and his close circle of friends, and effort I’ve put into building relationships with like-minded folk.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

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[91Eunozs]

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Yup…. Gave up trying to get the purchase to go through bitpay, and just cashed out a decent chunk on Saturday night. Funded a couple hours ago, and immediately bought more physical gold, and some silver too since I was ordering.

Bought 1oz silver ‘rounds’ this time instead of my usual Walking Liberty silver dollars.

Cross-posted from the gold thread:

 

[Sterlingb06]

You might wanna check your wallet settings and make sure your crypto’s good for BitPay. Sometimes just updating your app or looking for pending transactions can fix stuff.

Oh, and if you wanna make using crypto smoother, I found this Solana volume bot that’s super helpful. It helps you keep track of trades and automates stuff, so it’s way easier. I had way fewer issues after using their tips. Check it out https://solana-scripts.com/solana-volume-bot

 

[91Eunozs]

Holy thread necro batman!

But yeah, timely…. I never could get bitpay to link to any of my precious metals accounts, but continued buying all the way up to my second retirement a couple months ago. My financial advisor’s about to have an aneurysm, but now have almost 1/3 of my retirement savings in physical gold and silver.

Paper gold/silver of course, but I sleep better at night knowing I have a backstop in place. If it all goes sideways far enough that the physical assets my accounts are tied to disappear in the night, we’re all screwed anyway.

And if gold continues to climb the way it has been going this year, I may have to sell some actual on-hand physical gold to pay off the house!

And yes, it’s actually the dollar becoming less valuable…an ounce of gold still buys about what an ounce of gold bought 100 years ago.

 

[SnowMan]

It could be that you are trying to buy real money with fake money. Like the Post Office, you can't buy a money order with a credit card, you have to use cash.

 

[rustyinbend]

Crypto-Exchanges are a little like Alpaca Ranching. Making money operationally is almost impossible, and using the derivative products is very difficult. At the end of the day, the only way to make money at both is to convince some other person to buy your shit, once you've figured out it will never get you rich, as you decide to go back to work in a real job. I'm just sayin' ...