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was up $2.35, now $1.72

If these effers are not stopped … don’t expect Trump and company to do it (they are in bed with them) … everything is going to look quite different in no time …

Fascist robber barons one and all.

Looks like we are getting some short covering with silver breaking above $5o … Mario thinks it could go to $60 very quickly.

And as Mike Maloney has been pointing out over the past few days … silver shortages are coming quickly too … so prices should literally skyrocket from here … looks like the fascist robber barons better known as the international banking cabal have a problem on their hands.

Chuckle

BIG GREEN CANDLES !!!

I’m lovin it! Crazy times! 🙂

Better late than never!

Do you believe this?

Up over $2, better than 4%

Something must have broken. We just breached $51

^5! 🙂

Have some of that shorty! Go puke in your gucci loafers! 🙂

Just unbelievable. 14 years of torture being made up in 6 months. 🙂

Feels like a dam broke here at $50, now up $1.50. Also dragging gold with it.

Maybe the physical supply ran out over in the UK?

I know this will all end sometime, but it sure is nice for now.

With everything else flat except the dollar, which is up a bit.

Where do we go from here? Does a battle begin or do we blast right through and head toward $60?

Palladium is going nuts again, up near 3.5%.

Feels like we’re in a dream.

All this, and retailers are still sellers.

UK’s Green Party Demands Abolition Of Private Landlords

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-green-party-demands-abolition-private-landlords

Now it’s turned a bit, but probably not for long. IMO

ABC, a real lefty channel, had an article a few weeks ago which astounded us. Tonight it was channel 9 news basically repeating this Sydney Morning Herald article:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/just-extraordinary-what-the-gold-mania-means-for-your-jewellery-box-20251008-p5n131.html

Times they are a-changing.

Good analysis. So, once upon a time the AUD was considered a commodity currency. Not sure why that title went away, but maybe it’s being re-discovered that Australia has a butt ton of resources – especially metals.

The Morgan Stanley allocation is crazy to me because you’re right, he goes from 0% to 20% without testing the waters. I wonder what type of information they have that would cause them to make a dramatic change like that? Morgan Stanley is no boutique trading house; they are one of the big boys who’ve treated gold like the plague since I’ve been in the markets.

Crazy times.

Oops! Derail. It’s called ‘picking a switch’ when the
Wheels fail to guide on the switch points.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/888356/

Bulls in control right now. Hate to even say it so it don’t try to change.

Okay, so check this out—privacy in crypto is messy. Wow! It’s messy because people confuse anonymity with secrecy, and they trade performance for privacy without really weighing the trade-offs. My first gut reaction to Monero years ago was: “Whoa, finally—something that actually tries to hide the breadcrumbs.” At first I thought it was overkill, but then I watched a transaction trail get scrubbed and my skepticism shifted. Initially I thought this would be for the hardcore only, but honestly, usability has improved a lot and the Monero GUI wallet now feels like a real balance of power and polish.

Here’s the thing. Short sentences punch. They break tension. Seriously? Yep. But the deeper point is that privacy isn’t a switch you flip. It is a set of defaults, protocols, and sometimes—candidly—culture. Monero combines ring signatures, confidential transactions, and stealth addresses to make transaction linkage very hard. On one hand, that math is elegant; on the other hand, it means wallets must handle complex operations behind the scenes so users don’t mess it up. Hmm… somethin’ about that trade-off bugs me.

When I open the Monero GUI, I feel calm. Not smug. Calm. The interface gives you the essentials first: balance, send, receive. Then it layers the advanced stuff. That scaffolding matters. If privacy tools are hidden in menus that nobody finds, they might as well not exist. My instinct said design matters as much as cryptography, and over time I’ve seen design choices influence how people manage their privacy in practice. Actually, wait—let me rephrase that: good UI nudges lead to better privacy habits, period.

How the Monero GUI Wallet Makes Privacy Practical

At a protocol level Monero obscures sender, recipient, and amounts using ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT. But the wallet’s job is to invisible-ize that complexity. It builds and manages key images, constructs decoys, and broadcasts transactions while keeping your private keys local. That matters because if the wallet leaks metadata or forces you to centralize key management, the privacy gains evaporate. I’m biased, but I’ve been hands-on with wallet setups that were so leaky they defeated the whole point.

Practically speaking, the GUI supports synchronized blockchain downloads or light modes via remote nodes. Each has privacy trade-offs. Running your own node — full node — is the gold standard and it almost always gives you the best privacy posture because you remove the need to trust someone else’s view of the network. But running a node requires disk space and bandwidth. So yeah—it’s a trade. On the other hand, remote nodes are convenient but reveal connection metadata to the node operator. Many users accept that, though I worry about patterns forming over time—very very important to think about.

Oh, and by the way: if you want a straightforward place to get the GUI that’s not some scammy mirror, try the official wallet download options and community-verified distributions. For convenience, here’s a link for a monero wallet download that I use as a starting point when helping friends set up their first wallet. Use it as a checklist more than a prescription; verify signatures where you can.

Real-World Patterns and the Human Element

Privacy tech doesn’t exist in a vacuum. People reuse addresses, back up seeds insecurely, and sometimes post screenshots that reveal too much. On the street-level of the internet, slip-ups are social not technical. Initially I blamed protocols; then I realized most failures are human. So I changed how I teach: small, repeatable rituals that reduce error. For example—never screenshot receive addresses, never copy-paste private keys into text files, and rotate your operational security if you think you’ve been exposed. Simple rules that actually work.

There are also policy and perception angles. Regulators and exchanges sometimes treat privacy coins differently, which complicates liquidity and onramps. On one hand, that’s frustrating because privacy is a civil liberty; on the other hand, I get the desire for compliance in a world where bad actors exist. So, yeah, there’s a tension and it deserves honest debate rather than hand-wringing. I’m not 100% sure how this plays out long-term, but the technology keeps adapting.

One thing that bugs me: people ask for absolute guarantees. They want a promise that a transaction will never be traceable. Crypto can’t give legal immunity or moral cover. What it does give is layered privacy—probabilistic protections that, when combined with good practices, significantly raise the cost of surveillance. That’s powerful. It just isn’t magic.

When to Run Your Own Node — and When Not To

Run your own full node when you control large amounts, when you need maximum privacy, or when you want to validate the chain yourself. Short sentence. The benefits are clear: local verification, full control, and reduced metadata leakage to third parties. But it costs resources. If you’re casually using small amounts, the usability trade-off of a remote node might be acceptable.

Here’s a practical mental model: think about threat models like layers. Are you defending against casual observers? Or determined, resourced adversaries? Your node decision maps directly onto that. On one hand, a full node is the right answer for sophisticated threat models; though actually, for many users, a properly chosen remote node with additional OPSEC covers most realistic threats. Decide deliberately.

To wrap this up—well, not wrap up because I hate neat endings—I’ll say this: privacy coins like Monero represent a philosophical stance as much as a technical stack. They prioritize ambiguous trails, plausible deniability, and the ability to transact without automatic linkage. That’s comforting in a world of pervasive surveillance, and it feels like the right tool for certain jobs. I’m optimistic but cautious; privacy requires maintenance, not miracles. So stay curious, stay careful, and keep asking questions—your future self will thank you.

Candlestick showing a slight gap up with long wicks both sides the battle going on with the shorts and long right now. It’s like something cooking that needs to be watched. Last looked the bulls had a slight upper hand.

https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/seismic-shift-morgan-stanley-recommends-60-20-20-portfolio-with-20-allocated-to-gold-202510072215

Mrs F says that surely the latest run didn’t start just because of that comment on 25th September. But, in AUD the 24th was the last down day ……

Should we be nervous? Hmmmm. US debt $37tn, up $2.1tn from previous year. Forecast to be up $3tn this year. Snowflakes in hell looking definitely likely compared to peace in Gaza or Ukraine. Fiscal deficits in UK, Euro (specifically France, Germany), Japan, US. Migration chaos across Europe. AI looking shaky. Nah, probably not yet.

I think the most significant thing is the suddenness. Not dipping his toe in the water with a 60/35/5 allocation – no, a BAM put half your bonds into gold and keep the other half in short term only. That seems more of a panic than a measured move.

When we start to see articles like this should we be nervous? Morgan Stanley changed their allocation to 20% gold?? Whatever the case, $4K seems to be getting some attention.

“For decades, Wall Street’s traditional portfolio allocation rule has been 60/40, meaning 60% in stocks and 40% in bonds. Gold has been completely ignored, despite outperforming the DJIA for the past 25 years. The DJIA-Gold ratio has declined from 40+ at the start of the century to less than 12 today. In other words, excluding dividends, the DJIA, when priced in terms of gold rather than the US Dollar, has lost about 70% of its value in the last 25 years. The nominal gains are merely an illusion of monetary inflation!

Morgan Stanley recently changed its allocation from 60/40 to 60/20/20, i.e., 60% stocks, 20% in bonds, and 20% in gold. Almost equally interesting is the fact that they have recommended allocating the bond portfolio to shorter-duration income securities, indicating that they expect an increase in long-term interest rates. Finally, Wall Street is waking up from its apathy towards gold and recognizing the reality ahead.”

Gold @ $4,000/Oz – A Small Step for Gold; A Giant Blow to the Fiat Monetary System. | ZeroHedge

Taking a flyer on this stock. was trading @.64, and initial assay results on 3 of their completed drill holes reported not very high gold results. The stock got decimated down to .18.

They still have results to report on another 7 holes which showed more prospective veining, alteration and mineralization.

Note that lovely saucer bottom….