I think gold is heavily controlled manipulated, but not to prop up fiats... but the opposite; countries like russia, japan, china, etc are incentivized to suppress the price of gold so they can accumulate at a cheaper price... once they have enough stock piled, when king dollar implodes... they wont break a sweat... so i agree with the other poster... gold will have its moment in the sun... just gotta be patient

Remeber... as much as the free market loves crypto's.... governments cant/wont conduct business with each other with crypto's (at least no time soon) but they can and will in gold