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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jan \ on: Marathon Fusion has announced the transmutation of gold tech

Wow cool. I consulted with AI. If every power plant in the world were producing 5k kgs of gold per year that would be 42 times the annual mined supply of gold.

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49 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 19 Jan

This gold's got a problem, it's radioactive. They still gotta figure out a way to scrub it before it's good to go!

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39 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 19 Jan

I consulted AI again. 18 years for it to cease to be radioactive. I am sure they will figure out a way to get that number down. It will be like aging wine. You aren't making gold for today you are making it for 20 years from now.

Still quite a breakthrough. Even if we are 20-30 years away from this being feasible and scalable that does still bring gold's long term store of value into question.

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