Is it 100 dollar bills? How much? Each weighs a gram. Gold is worth…145$ peer gram. So that means…gold will always be worth more, unless severely diluted.
Yeah, but what’s more liquid? I can take those 100s and pay most of my expenses in cash for the rest of my life.
If I take the gold bars, I would have to find a buyer or find a way to convert it into cash. I’m sure most people and places will have questions about how I got the gold bars.
When you heat both sides up: one is liquid, the other is flammable.
Plus we may have a $250 bill coming soon to make the cash option even more attractive!
It’s entirely plausible that the dollar could collapse to near worthless within our lifetimes. Inb4 Americans who think the world would be ending.
Bass boosted, reverb inshallah.
The gold of course, Dollar is not even worth its weight in paper in a few years
They’ve been saying that since before you were born.
nope, when I was born everybody believed in the american dream (1970). those days are really over now, my friend.
Gold has done rather well vs the dollar in those years!
I’d take either and be happy.
Yes one or the other, or half of each I won’t complain.
That runs Gabe’s yacht for about 6 months.
What, are you like a normal person or something?
(/s)
Too metric. Can I get that weight in cheeseburgers please?
Ok. 500 kg of dollars, 500kg of gold or 500kg of cheeseburgers. Which do You choose?
Precooked weight if that matters.
Are those Troy kilograms? 🤔
3500 in volume.
It’s 500 gold bars about the size of an iPhone 6
Gold would be given in troy ounces
I’ll accept troy cheeseburgers.
And now you nerdsniped me into finding the value density of a dollar bill, which is roughly 1 gram, which makes a kilogram of dollars be worth some $1000 USD. Which still pales in comparison to the value of a kilogram of gold by at least a factor of 40-to-1
So, i know the post says “us dollars” but if it was hundred dollar bills, then the best value goes back to the paper, doesn’t it?
I had forgotten that the US dollars didn’t require being in 1 USD bills. Yeah, using 100 USD bills could make the value better than gold’s, as long as it sells below $100,000 USD per kilogram
…Never mind, the kilogram of gold hasn’t been below $100K since at least last year: apmex.com/gold-price/1-kg-gold…
Cash, the value be dammed. Im not trying to sell fucking gold. Im not a fucking merchant
Depending where you are you might not be able to put a that amount of cash in your bank, although it’s easier to use.
O, very little would actually get deposited. But all my groceries and eating out and booze and lots of video games and hobbie shit will just get paid for in cash.
If the gold is in an accepted standard form, such as krugerrands, you just need to find a precious metals dealer. If it’s just a pile of gold, then there’s a lot of hassle. I imagine ingots of the sort national gold reserves hold would be somewhere in between.
Shifting a large quantity of gold may require a non-optional explanation of its provenance, with “I woke up and it was just there” or “a genie gave it to me after I did an online quiz” not being adequate, and an inadequate explanation resulting in its forfeiture if not more serious legal hassles. With a large pile of gold and no good explanation, you may be reduced to smurfing small pieces of it to different dealers, moving around a lot and avoiding the attention that such a pile would inevitably draw.
You don’t think you’ll be investogated for a massive gold transaction?
a large pile of gold
That depends as well. Gold in specimen and nugget form can be worth considerably more than its value by weight and there’s plenty out there chasing these. These are not hard to move at all.
But yeah, there can be difficulties trading it and it’s generally subject to taxes. Quite often you need to be licenced as at least a fossicker if you’re selling unrefined gold as a prospector.
That’s without the pain in the arse process of separating it from impurities.
Same would be required for 50M in cash not to mention Taxes.
Btw cash is 50M gold is ~90M
(And yes the “M” dose mean Monopoly money)
People like Al Capone would have a few things to say about unverified sources of wealth in any form. Pretty sure if I show up at a car dealer with a briefcase of bills it’ll raise a few questions too.
Depends on the dealership, heh
US law requires any cash transaction of $10,000 or more be reported to the IRS/Treasury Dept. to include the federal tax ID # of both parties/entities, and the deposit accounts involved.
5002 $9999 transactions
Yup that looks very normal to me. Probably looks nothing suspicious to your FBI agent either.
Structurization.
I know someone who worked in a software company that developed algorithms and systems for banks and gambling to detect these.Yep.
Literally pulling out $9,999 instead of $10,000… that in and of itself is a crime, even if you’re not actually doing anything funny with it.
Yet another way society is biased against the poor. A rich guy shows up with a briefcase full of money and nobody bats an eye, it’s just another day. A poor guy shows up with a briefcase full of money and then suddenly everyone starts asking questions, and if he doesn’t have good enough answers he might get thrown in jail.
What if I mowed a rich guy’s lawn and he gave me a really big tip? No, I don’t remember his name. No, I didn’t keep the address. It was over there somewhere, go that way, it’s the big house with the mown lawn. You’ll find it, just keep looking…
I’d choose gold. AFAIK most all money laundering rules deal with cash.
Even if a geine were to give you 500 tons of cash or gold, some governments may have a problem with that and choose to redistribute it.
Choosing gold makes the value much more liquid in my opinion.
Not to mention that gold doesn’t rot (unlike USD). In today’s economy gold is probably more value-dense (as in, a pound of gold is worth more than a pound of hundered-dollar bills).
Currencies also come and go but gold stays. If you’re thinking long-term, gold is the vastly better choice.
If that works for you, fine. Im sticking with cash. The government doesnt know I have it, they wont know to look for it. And it wont start rotting in my lifetime.
Besides, you never know when the FBI might show up.
I could see FBI showing up if you try to do something with 500 kg of dollar bills as well.
you can visit my local pawn shop, they give cash for gold
70m in gold pls
Okay, here’s your five dollars. Thank you for your business.
You don’t sell the gold. You take 10x loans of gold’s worth and use it as collateral. Like banks and billionaires do. Well maybe 100x…
Yeah, but the volume of 500kg of monies is like 19× larger!!
Then again … 500kg of gold is just under 26 litres which would mean I can finally cast my favourite Bad Dragon product.
I’d probably take the cash since I don’t know how to turn gold bars into money. It’s never come up before!
It hasn’t come up for me either. What a weird coincidence!
🫵 alt account
I am absolutely no one’s alt account unless you count my abandoned .ml account of the same name.
im joking that
what a weird coincidence
means that u two are the same person
On re-reading your comment, I should have picked up on that.
Ez! Find your local CIA agent, exchange the gold for cocaine, go to you local financial district, exchange the cocaine for stocks, sell them immediately at double the price (that’s just how the market works when all are motivated by greed), pay capital gain taxes, cash out at a local bank that will charge you like 10% in fees (+10% for the local FBI agent that doesn’t want to believe), weight the money, it’s exactly 107 bald eagles.
Homie flunked the pound of feathers riddle one too many times
Selling shit is a nightmare, fuck the pound-to-value maths, just give me the money.
One gram of X Dollar notes is worth X Dollar, as a Dollar note weighs one gram.
One gram of gold is somewhere close to 150 Dollar.
So with 100 Dollar or smaller notes I would take the gold, but there are also 500, 1000, 5000, and 10000 Dollar notes…
First off, it feels fully wrong to hear about “US notes” instead of bills. I know they are notes, but it feels like hearing someone say exclamation mark instead of point or vice versa. One feels natural to some people, the other for others. Just feels so weird.
Also, depending on how you’re obtaining these 500kg of US notes, anything above 100 dollar bills is basically just for bank transfers and you’ll have a helluva time using it for anything if it wasn’t obtained legally. They’re tracked pretty well. The vast majority of Americans don’t even know they exist, I’d say, and have surely never seen one.
ETA: I’m mistaken! Apparently those larger bills were legal tender, just rare. It’s the 100k gold certificate that was only for bank transfers
Yep. They discontinued the larger denominations because they were primarily used for corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, etc. Guess why Trump wants to introduce a new 250 Dollar bill? And with his own face on it? The face of corruption on the bill of corruption.
What about… 500 kgs of Bitcoin?
would you take 500 kgs of bitcoin or 500 kgs of monero?
What about 500 kgs of your momma!
Damn. Now that’s a lotta momma.
If you get a big pile of money you have to pay taxes on it immediately and then you only get interest on what is left over afterward. If get a big pile of gold you don’t pay taxes until you sell it, and in the meantime you benefit from any increase in value since then.
I take the gold. I like shiny gold and dollar bills would look stupid in my hoard.
What denomination are the bills and how much does each brick of gold weight? Cuz I mean, if the bills are high enough, like $5000s they might be worth more than the gold.
You can see they’re in 100s
a hundred dollar bill weighs a gram and is worth $100, a gram of gold is worth $145. However you’ll pay income tax on the gold profit when you sell to get your cash.
Thats why you borrow against it :)
To be fair, I don’t know exactly how we’re getting this cash, but chances are it’s also taxable. Maybe you could get away with it, but that’s a lot of millions to hide.
Nah, I know a guy.
A US $1 weighs 1g according to a random website I found on the Internet. I tested and it’s close enough.
As of today 2026/06/02, a gram of gold is worth about $140 assuming it’s minted and the purity is known.
That honestly surprises me. It means that gold and bills (assuming c-bills) are within an order of magnitude of each other.
Worst case with bill denominations: half a million. Best case with bill denominations: 50 million dollars.
Worst case with gold: $140/g less 10% worst case for verification and bulk buy discounts. $120/g ballpark. $60 million. Best case with gold: ~$70 million dollars upper bound for known minted purity.
So gold has the highest potential return but also the highest overhead.
I’d probably go gold. Even if I lost 50% due to overhead, I’d be able to pay my mortgage and my brother’s student loans and for my mum to live in a nice place.
Honestly, any of them would be a life changing amount of money.
I didn’t do the math but concluded that gold was the better value but harder to handle.
70ish million for the gold, and 50 Million for the money.
