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Fort Knox

noun

  1. a military reservation in N Kentucky, SSW of Louisville: location of U.S. federal gold depository since 1936.



Fort Knox

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noun

  1. a military reservation in N Kentucky: site of the US Gold Bullion Depository. Pop: 12 377 (2000)

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Andrew Friedman realized this when he emptied Fort Knox during the offseason.

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For example, Musk spread an unfounded internet theory that US gold reserves had quietly been stolen from Fort Knox in Kentucky.

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Sacks said the stockpile would serve as "a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency", drawing comparison to a Kentucky military base that stores a significant portion of US gold assets.

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The $100m-facility is often dubbed Asia's Fort Knox.

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Mr Tait was revealed as the Fujitsu source who told Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells that Horizon was "like Fort Knox" - a claim she repeated in a letter to Parliament in 2020.

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