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7 years ago
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In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you've always been born into.
Those of you who know me well enough know about my...random thoughts. Sometimes they're very brief and then gone, others I have a hard time letting go of and feel a need to ponder them. I have encountered the latter! That thought is: In various stories, dragons covet treasure, typically gold, silver, other precious metals, and gemstones. In today's world, paper money is heavily circulated, coins are not minted from actual precious metals (if so, only a small percentage of the coin itself hardly of any value). Add to that the introduction of cryptocurrency, I can't help but wonder...how would a covetous dragon, malicious, friendly, etc. cope in today's world? I strongly doubt they would enjoy paper money for obvious reasons (god forbid they sneezed), but do you think they'd have lairs full of high-end servers mining bitcoin?
What do y'all think?
What do y'all think?
I just think a dragon trading in their gold for cryptocurency is counterintuitive. At best they would have investments in that but also convert some of the capital gains from their cryptocurrency into tangible items with real value which would be the old fashioned lair stuffed with gold and what not. I feel that's what a modern riches hungry dragon would do, cause lets be honest anyone would like to have a lair full of gold whether it be 500 years ago or today, it's a timeless method!
Maybe they collect porcelain?
Possibly the modern dragon is into antiques? That explains antique road shows.
A dragon with a huge collection of original Star Trek toys and merchandise still in the packaging.
There is still a place for gold in the modern world, not to mention it could be a dragon running all those money for broken old jewellery shops. Gold melts down nicely, old or not.
*hugs*
V.