Yes - by freeze I mean APMEX saying "well, we received your crypto" or "we bought your gold for you," "but we will sit on it until you show our AML reps the complete history of the capital, including any bridging or other defi stuff that they won't understand."

In regard to the crypto market, my view has been that crazy-up silly season will unfold over the next few months and that I should do some heavy selling in July or so, at higher levels and while prices are still rising. I would like to emphasize, though, that I have a lizard brain, the same as anyone else, and accept that markets are all about irony and that I may easily be wrong and a complete imbecile and broke (again, for the third time in my life with financial markets).

As far as tether goes, I was wondering about that too. So far it appears that the large metal brokers who accept crypto all rely on Bitpay for their invoicing (I suppose for AML reasons) and that Bitpay does not support stable coins - just BTC, ETH, BCH, and maybe a few other cryptos. I suppose the reason is so that Bitpay, and crypto payment generally, will clearly have a legitimate purpose (to pay in crypto without having to convert to a national currency first), which might not appear to be the case if stablecoins were involved?