

I think an open-HW community in the fediverse might be more likely to provide the kind of feedback that such projects would benefit most from?
Instead of a chat, you have a durable-community, & people who only connect with the fediverse on a monthly basis would still pop-in to contribute, you know?
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For THAT much gold to have got on the market, somebody big is financing something, liquidating a bunch of their reserves?
Russia’s got African gold as part of its income ( the Africa Corps, formerly Wagner, being their means of harvesting African gold, both directly & indirectly, apparently )… this could simply be them converting from gold to some other kind of asset, in financing their war…
XOR it’s all ditched futures?
The people who pointed-out that it’s all just a 2-week setback, though … consider that the other-way-'round:
that in 2-weeks, gold has CLIMBED that much…
THAT is … terrifying.
World’s bracing for economic-armageddon/collapse/Depression2.
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