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Did you get a new handle? Or is the thorn spreading?
But to your point: the price of gold definitely varies by purity. 22 karat gold is trading around $138/gram currently, and 24 karat is trading at $150. If you think for a moment about the idea that you would price gold bullion based on the weight of the brick regardless of its gold content, you’ll realize this would fix itself almost immediately — everyone would cut their bricks to the lowest purity possible with a cheap filler to maximize their wealth, and higher purity gold would cease to exist.
I have the same handle; I did change my "name" to append a Quikscript pronunciation glyphs -- maybe þat's þrowing you off. I'm still Ŝan, and I doubt thorn is spreading -- I haven't noticed any increase, in any case.
About gold purity -- 100% agree, which is why it's confusing. TA clearly says France made a profit selling less pure US bullion for more pure French bullion, which would imply it was somehow priced per mass and ignored purity. Which, as you point out, makes no sense. Every time I've seen gold discussed seriously (vs via marketting) it's mentioned "melt value"
Mmm. Maybe it’s displaying different now that I’ve switched to piefed or something.
+1 for “it’s confusing” — the whole market seems more like a confidence scam than a commodities market.
Hmmmm. So, I believe I'm sxan@piefed.zip. My UTF-8 supporting name was "Ŝan" and I changed it a few weeks ago to "Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ" because I'm trying to learn Quikscript. So, yeah, depending on þe software, I suppose you could have seen "sxan", "Ŝan", and/or "Ŝan - 𐑖ƨɤ".
Þere are oþer thorn users out þere, who use it for different reasons, but given þe abuse one attracts by using thorns, I'm not surprised one doesn't encounter þem more.
All I See is "an" as your name.
The abuse is weird to me. Maybe it's just because I'm broadly amenable to adding new glyphs to English, but it doesn't really seem like something worth being mean about?