The market is also just so big that it's harder to pump-n-dump the price.
Theoretically, silver is a slightly bigger market, but the market behavior suggests a lot of paper.
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Or the price is being supressed.
That's what I meant. The silver market is inflated through fake paper trades, the same as is beginning in Bitcoin. The extent of that in silver is much higher, by nature, as most Bitcoin has already been mined and can be clearly accounted for on the timechain.