Finance stuff goes a bit over my head, like I've no idea why they have moved gold to America if they were planning to risk making it un-tradeable by starting a war? If Russia needs to offset sanctions by trading gold with China then surely the value would fall? But o0shad0o *"I do predict, however, that if any major nation does switch to a gold-backed currency, the price of gold in other currencies will roughly double."* gold is up a bit but may fall if the war ends (which it will when Russia finishes crushing Ukraine) https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/live-markets-gold-could-see-large-price-drop-if-ukraine-russia-tensions-ease-2022-02-22/ Russia has billions in crypto, which I'd expect to keep rising as it bypasses sanctions