You're right there's a trust problem, but that's going to operate both ways. China wants to send money to Germany. Right now their option is to use the global reserve currency, i.e. USD.
So they want to use gold... how exactly? IOU's? Who's going to trust that?
Globe99
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2026-01-29 20:17:50 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…k5kn
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