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  • Gold was never a widespread means of payment for the common people. It is way too rare for that to even be a practical possibility. Aristocracy, kings and emperors may have occasionally done this, but only for major things and matters of state, or sometimes when they wanted to impress someone. Also, a bit later, banks of course held on to a lot of gold and long distance traders used it, because they couldn’t rely on either their customary set of values nor on credit from the locals.

    Silver, for obvious reasons, was more widespread, but still far from universal.

    The common people would pay for things with stuff that both parties agreed was worth a certain amount of gold or silver (prices were a lot more rigid back then), possibly other metals, but quite possibly just IOUs or other forms of credit. In a tightly knit rural community where everybody know everybody else, and neighbors would assume to stay neighbors for their whole lives, that actually worked. In a modern suburb where knowing your next-door neighbor’s name is more a matter of maybe-if-you’re-feeling-polite, not so much.

    It is true, however, that the US government at some point confiscated gold from private citizens and outlawed private ownership of gold. Once in 1933, and then arguably once more in 1971.




  • Dunno about ideal, but it should work.

    It does have quite a bit of overhead, meaning it’s not the fastest out there, but as long as it’s fast enough to serve the media you need, that shouldn’t matter.

    Also, you need to either mount it manually on the command line whenever you need it or be comfortable with leaving your SSH private key in your media server unencrypted. Since you are already concerned with needing to encrypt file share access even in the local network, the latter might not be a good option to you.

    The good part about it is, as long as you can ssh from your media server to your NAS, this should just work with no additional setup needed.