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Precious metals are reasonably compact, easy to store and have inherent value due to their relative rarity.
by rzzzt 6y ago
Precious metals are reasonably compact, easy to store and have inherent value due to their relative rarity.
- kijin 6y agoBring back the gold standard, and enjoy your popcorn as the entire solar system rushes to build supermassive particle accelerators that bombard base metals with all sorts of stuff until they turn into gold. It really is the same principle as brute-forcing meaningless hashes until you get a predetermined prefix. Only in this case the desired prefix has 79 protons.
- m4rtink 6y agoBlack hole accretion disks are more efficient for that: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de
- rbanffy 6y agoThings only have value for their utility. Anything else is a consensual hallucination.