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Still trying to catch up on my podcasts after the holidays and came across another interview that I think those into physical silver will find promising.
I think we are all waiting for the day that the price tampering by the paper market comes to an end. It sounds like there is hope that it may becoming sooner than later.
Silver Doctors' Elijah Johnson did an interview with Keith Neumeyer, CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp, where they discussed the future pricing of silver.
As if we weren't aware of the price manipulation by the COMEX, CME and LBMA, Neumeyer points out that the current mining of silver and gold is at a ratio of 9:1. Which means 9 ounces of silver is being mined for every 1 ounce of gold. Yet the price ratio is currently around 80:1 which indicates silver is much rarer than people believe it is. In fact he believes there is going to come a day in the near future that a lack of silver will prevent companies like Tesla, Apple, Toyota and many others from producing their products.
Blockchain to the rescue
Neumeyer is skeptical of bitcoin (like most physical metal insiders) and admits it might be because he doesn't have any and feels he missed the boat.
Nevertheless he believes that blockchain technology is going to end the current pricing system of today. Blockchain will allow mining companies to set the price and sell directly to the consumers, eliminating the marginal banking that is the cause of the current price manipulation.
Coming soon to a mine near you
Neumeyer indicated, that although still it's infancy, there is work going on within the mining industry on a blockchain based pricing and distribution system. Let's just hope it happens sooner than later.
Here is a link to the interview and if you found my overview interesting I would suggest taking a listen. Interview starts a 1:06 if you want to skip to it.
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I've just discover your channel, you got a new follower trying to make some investment in silver and planning to make a homestead with bees on it, hope to learn a lot more! Awesome info, cheers!
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Great, glad you found me and hope you find my content worthwhile.
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Thanks bushkill.
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I think the silver world is in for a big shake up once the blockchain takes over. I don't think we can get a true feel for it from our local dealers as many of them are bitcoin disbelievers and associate all blockchain as bitcoin.
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certainly sounds like an interesting idea, there's so much overlap between the silver and crypto community.
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Bitcoin (cypto) is not what is keeping the silver/gold price down. crypto skyrocketing is the reaction to people's dissatisfaction with the current corrupt financial institutions in control. Precious metal advocates need to embrace crypto and not look at it as an enemy. There is plenty of money do go around if you get the derivative markets out of the picture. Both crypto and metals can thrive.
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Hey @bushkill, I am curious what you think about the possibility of the price of silver and gold represented by crypto not necessarily being stable since they could be influenced by supply and demand. At least this is my assumption without knowing a lot about crypto silver. For short term crypto traders, couldn't the price still be influenced through speculation whether by the masses or by wealthy individuals? Anyway, thanks for this info about manipulation being harder, transparency and lots to think about.
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That is exactly what we want, the free market to set the price by supply and demand. What you talk about the price being manipulated is what is going on today. The difference is those manipulating the price today don't have enough to actually control the market, so they have created these paper contracts that allows them to sell the same physical ounce to multiple people giving them the control they need. With blockchain they will not be able to create these virtual ounces to get them to a level to control the market.
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I did not know that the paper contract was not 1:1. If I understand correctly that allows them to sell 1:3 one day and 3:1 the next? That's pretty shady. Thanks for explaining the differences here.
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Ya, most people don't and just take for granted that the government has their back. If you just study the transaction volumes vs what the mines produce it becomes quite obvious. Then it becomes clear why they aren't transparent with their actual physical holdings. The blockchain will force that.
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This is so not obvious. So what you are saying is that it is more rare than the price would lead us to believe? Any idea where I can look into this more and read more about this scandal?
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🤔 Not sure if mining or mining
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Not sure if silver or silver 🤷♂️😄 jk the lines are blurring nowadays
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