About Richard's Silver Bible

I came to silver the way a lot of people do these days — through Bitcoin.

A few years ago, I went down the rabbit hole that starts with "what actually is money?" and doesn't really have a bottom. Bitcoin led to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve led to Bretton Woods, the Nixon Shock, the history of gold standards. And somewhere in that reading — probably around the time I hit the Crime of 1873 and the Coinage Act debates — I realized I kept circling back to silver.

Not just as money. That part is fascinating on its own — 4,000 years of monetary history is hard to ignore. But what pulled me in further was everything else. Silver is the most electrically conductive element on the periodic table. It's in every solar panel, every semiconductor, every smartphone. It kills bacteria on contact — and ancient civilizations figured that out thousands of years before germ theory. It has a stranger and richer cultural history than gold. And its market dynamics — a metal that's 70% mined as a by-product, running structural deficits, caught between commodity and money — are unlike anything else I've come across.

This site started as a way to organize what I was learning. It became something I wanted to share — a place where someone new to silver can get a serious, honest foundation without wading through hype, conspiracy, or thinly-veiled dealer marketing. There's plenty of that out there already.

What you'll find here

• Foundational articles — long-form pieces on what silver is, how the market works, and its history.
• Shorts — focused posts on specific topics: the gold/silver ratio, coin types, storage, market events.
• Micro — quick reference pieces for when a point doesn't need 800 words.

What you won't find here

• Doomsday positioning — silver as the only hedge against civilizational collapse.
• Uncritical adoption of precious metals marketing.
• Invented facts. Every factual claim is cited. Articles carry a numbered Sources section. Speculative or contested claims are labeled as such.

Not financial advice

Nothing on this site constitutes financial, investment, or legal advice. I have a position in silver — I'm writing about it because I find it genuinely interesting, not because I'm disinterested. See the full disclaimer.