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Comment by kortilla

Derivatives are not the same thing as paper gold and conflating the two is just a sales tactic to push the oversubscription meme.

Paper gold is something like the gold ETFs where a share represents gold in the fund’s vault. If those were actually fraudulent in reserves, then you would have a point.

Every commodity that has a futures and options market will have a huge ratio of derivatives to the underlying. That’s the nature of producers and consumers locking in prices and speculators getting in between.

parent kortilla 3 years ago

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