You could potentially print gold via nuclear fusion / fission reactors. However the cost would be several orders of magnitude higher than few grams of gold prod

You could potentially print gold via nuclear fusion / fission reactors. However the cost would be several orders of magnitude higher than few grams of gold produced. All successful forms of money share the following characteristics: counterfeit resistant, rare, fungible, easily transportable, little to no carrying cost, and high value per unit (another way to say rare). Its no accident that human society settled upon gold as representation of this ideal since it closely fits all these criteria. Its possible that crypto will change this however...