Paper Gold vs Real Gold

All the world's gold fits in a 107 foot cube worth 46 trillion dollars. But here's the brutal

truth nobody tells you: owning gold and holding gold are completely different games.

When you buy an ETF, you're betting on a spreadsheet that tracks metal you'll

never touch. The bank lent that same bar to 30 other people through something called rehypothecation,

which is just a fancy word for legal theft. They borrowed muscles that pop fast the

second liquidity dries up. Meanwhile, every arbitrage play is just buying

low and selling high before you become the last bag holder. Real gold sits in

your hand, weighs exactly what it should, and doesn't need a blockchain to