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Introduction: The Silent Titans of the Gold Market   While the financial press and retail investors fixate on gold's record-breaking prices, tracking daily fluctuations and exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows, the most powerful and consequential player in the market operates with strategic patience and immense scale, largely away from the public glare. This player is not a hedge fund titan or a speculative consortium, but the collective force of the world's central banks. Their recent activity in the gold market is not a tactical trade; it is the physical manifestation of a profound, multi-decade geopolitical and economic strategy known as "de-dollarization".1...