jews spend centuries hoarding metals.
jews worm their way into reddit and drive up metals price.
jews exchange silver for fiat currency.
jews use fiat currency to buy up remaining real estate, food, politicians, and armies.
stock market and economy crashes and jew banks withhold fiat currency.
bartering and silver exchange can't sustain working global economy because difficulty of transfer.
people must exchange silver, remaining real property, and sovereignty for new digital blockchain Fed Coin (created out of thin air) or starve.
jew has all silver and all money is digitally tagged bio-metrically to individuals.
yolo do it anyway.
The silver demand in manufacturing is mostly electronics. They started using silver for the RoHS worldwide requirement to get rid of lead in printed circuit board soldering. They could and might go back to lead.
There are a few opensource hardware projects out there. Making your own foundry is quite the investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
The guy that made this microcontroller is a genius. He created his own chip from design to fabrication and sells them. I read a story about him at some point but I can't find it now. This is what he sells. https://www.parallax.com/propeller/