[arethuza]

The story of Alan Turing and his plan for securing his wealth comes to mind:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft/saft-on-weal...

[everybodyknows]

Fascinating.

>perhaps fearful of confiscation by a successful enemy or a government tax on capital, a plan that was mooted in Britain in 1920 ...

Hard asset confiscation, in the US case of gold, has been mooted, passed into law, and enforced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

[SilasX]

Wow that's sad. So he correctly knew to buy silver, but lost it because of the complexity of where he hit all the different pieces of the collection?