How Hopeless Are Your Metal Head (Goldbug) Hopes?

Even IF you melt to destroy the chips or bots constituting a .001 fraction of the coins and / or bars, you're S.O.L. Besides, you're not walking into a monster building with the metals, and you can't lawfully live outside. The authoritards' puppets have been quite clear on that point, with water rationing, alone. That IS a serious concern, but only because measures weren't taken long ago to control population.