You made the comment "surely gold becomes worthless" ....did you really believe this could even happen ?
Tube tv's ,old cameras ,clothes etc now they can become worthless ...
Now I didn't mean to bite your head off ..I just can't comprehend it ....like you say Central banks want to remove larger fiat notes of tender
this of course is only the start to remove cash from the system ....Denmark is nearly there
http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/denm...y/.VWaSqvmqpBd
IMHO once the powers that be remove cash from the western nations the likes of the precious metals and other forms of cash outside the banking system will be next ....they will tell us since cash has been removed the precious metals bullion/bitcoin had taken over the roll in the crime/drug world etc ...so it will become illegal to hold..
Then all transactions will go through the banking system they will have "FULL CONTROL" then it will be much easier to have negative rates imposed and further taxes,,,