Well, I didn't read everything, so someone may have said this. But hypothetically, if I were to buy gold, and direct trading was eliminated, I would just go on the grand exchange, put up some ashes, for a price of X millions of dollars, that the RWT would then purchase, I got my money, they got theres. As someone who has no experience in such activities, I came up with that idea in a matter of seconds, think of people who do it consistently, they know of many ways, they won't be hard pressed to come up with new ones. Just some opinions. ~ Jay