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>>53175925
I think there would be a black market but no chance gold and silver would be the bartering system. It would be a simple trade system of you having something I need and vice versa. If that’s the kind of scenario you are planning for then it makes more sense to stack the essentials to human existence and not PMs.

1. If people wanted to use an alternative currency under the governments noses when things go digital, they’d just use what we already have.. paper money. It’s easier, it’s easier divisible, it’s not cumbersome, it’s already got the value printed on it that’s the same for everyone else, everyone already understands it and everyone already has it.

2. How are you even gonna store and use this extremely heavy, large and unwieldy currency your government doesn’t want you to have without it being taken from you? Even the simplest of transaction with your neighbor would come with the risk of your life/freedom. Click clacking down the street with the sound of your metal in your pouches lmao I can imagine it now.

Store intrinsically valuable goods and not arbitrary valued PM. In which case no matter the SHTF scenario you will survive, you will have wealth and there’s no reason your government can confiscate said valuables from you in any situation.