>Literally prints gold
Get out now before the bloodbath starts

https://www.marathonfusion.com/

>>60654642 (OP)
>Source: dude trust me bro

>>60654642 (OP)
Ok but they’re gonna print bitcoins too one day when the technology is there so no winners either wua

>>60654669
>when the technology is there
They can do that now, if they fork it
They don't because of the prisoners dilemma
That's kind of the point

When we figured out how to make diamonds the price of all diamonds plummeted.

>>60654642 (OP)
Yeah you just needs a fusion reactor and the temperature of the sun to make a single gram.
Oh and the gold you get will be radioactive

>>60654760
They're making 5,000kg per year per GW.
After 17 years the gold is less radioactive than a banana.
Phenomenal investment.

>>60654642 (OP)
Great invention. Just buy tritium - one of the most expensive substances on earth or wait until nuclear fusion and the tritium fuel cycle is solved to increase gold mining by 0.1%

>>60654669
By that point btc will be replaced by trading bits of space poo

>>60654788
>After 17 years the gold is less radioactive than a banana.
Gold isn't radioactive. There's only one stable isotope. If it's radioactive, it's not gold.

>>60654642 (OP)
>massively scalable, pragmatically achievable, and economically irrestible
>five thousand kilograms gold per year per gigawatt of electricity
at $0.1/KWh, it would cost $876M to produce five thousand kilograms of gold (160753.73 troy ounces), or roughly $539M of gold, coming to a total loss of $337M/year. It would take a cost of $0.06/KWh to become profitable.

so economically irresistible even if its true...

>>60654788
Theres also this
https://www.scrapsolutionplace.com/product/mercury-198-isotope-for-sale/

Most of these scientists are retards, we do not have a single economically feasable hydrogen fusion reactor, and let me remind you hydrogen fusion is much simpler than fusion of heavier elements.
Even our sun cant do fusion beyond the triple alpha process . Gold is only made in supernovae and when two neutron stars collide.
This article is 100% PR bullshit

>>60654803
Wrong.

>>60654805
>at $0.1/KWh, it would cost $876M to produce five thousand kilograms of gold
read OP again. They aren't proposing to use electricity, they are proposing to produce gold as a byproduct to nuclear fusion.

>>60654642 (OP)
>stable gold isotope
So it's the Bitcoin Cash of gold?

>>60654642 (OP)
ok so let me get this straight:
This amazing invention only requires
- a mercury isotope that costs $14400 per mg
- nuclear fusion to work including the tritium fuel cycle
- to convert said isotope into gold that is radioactive
- at a relatively slow pace

>>60654823
You're right, I did misread it. If that's true without any downsides it may lead to a fusion energy boom, but I have way too little knowledge of this shit to separate the chaff from the wheat.

>>60654818
The bsv of gold

>>60654809
The gold is not produced by fusion, it's produced by neutron bombardment using neutrons generated by the fusion reaction. This is the same process used in fission breeding reactors -- by adding individual neutrons to elements you can slowly walk them up the chain. This is how Plutonium is created, or how Thorium is turned into U-233 for fission. They aren't fusing whole atoms together to form P-239 or U-233, they're adding neutrons to U-238 and Th-232 respectively.

This is basically a fusion reactor with an additional payload of Hg-197 that slowly turns into Au-198 in addition to the fusion process. The hardest part here is doing the fusion. But in theory you could do this with a fission reactor too, you'd just need to use U-235 as fuel because the Thorium fuel cycle doesn't generate enough spare neutrons to meaningfully enrich a secondary material.

>>60654669
bitcoin will hit 500k before midwits stop saying this

I got the captcha wrong you will never read my funny message, I am a PhD in physics.

>>60654642 (OP)
goldcels will cope but this is why BTC is the ultimate store of value and it will surpass the entire gold market to be the greatest asset in due time
it doesn't matter what new tech comes along, there will only ever be 21m BTC

>>60655210
until satoshi wallets wake and market dump 1 million btc. oops.

>>60655111
Thanks, that clears up a misunderstanding I had, and makes it more feasable since it is a byproduct of fusion.

I still do not think this will happen unless fusion becomes economically feasable, and the price of mercury-198 is still higher than gold in pure form.
I suppose you could use impure mercury, and potentially end up with a mix of other radioactive elements.

>>60655058
kek

>>60654760
>Oh and the gold you get will be radioactive
Yeah like your Marvel movies right you fucking gorilla nigger??

>>60655292
Did you even read it at all, the process produces mercury-197 which then decays into a gold isotope. Mercury-197 IS radioactive.
And youre assuming the mercury-198 is one hundred percent pure AND that the mercury-197 foesnt further react to create mercury-196 and so on.
Likewise you have neutron capture which would produce mercury-199.
So yes, your gold will be radioactive and probably give you cancer by looking at it

>>60654703
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/are-diamonds-even-a-luxury-anymore-de-beers-reckons-with-price-plunge/ar-AA1IKmpo

Still dealing with the consequences of man made diamonds, given this 2 day old article. Maybe cause it wasn't an overnight thing, but slowly lab grown got cheaper and cheaper. Now the Chinese are mass producing them and so is India.

>>60655111
How do you make it so the gold produced isn't radioactive? I think that is why fission devices could never make gold, given they also produce neutrons. They do produce radioactive medicines. I know fusion produces less radiation, but it is still there.

>>60655210
Bitcoin already surpassed the entire marketcap of silver, that was awhile ago now.
Gold is next.

>>60655317
I now want to produce a handy bar of that and airdrop it on Tel Aviv. How much?

>>60655395
silver's market cap is artificially surpressed by 400 to 1 paper etf's per real ounce.
i wonder what else just got etf's.

>>60655421
Lmao you might be onto something, maybe the radioactive gold is worth more than pure gold

>>60655338
Mooooooommmmmmmmm, I posted it agaaaaaaainnnnnnnnnn.

>>60654642 (OP)
fake news

>>60654692
>anon discovers what altcoins are
Congrats on this, seriously

>>60655217
and there would still only be 21m BTC ever

>>60655485
that's not up to you kiddo.
as if btc won't fork on 1 million coins waking and potentially market dumped on every cex/dex.

>noo i don't care if the dev holds 5% there's still only 21 million!! (and 8 decimal spots)

>>60655456
just what I thought hehe

>>60654642 (OP)
>"guys I just made 1 ounce of gold "
>"really? how much did it cost?"
>"5k..."

>>60654692
>fork
lmaoooo

>>60655058

>>60655519
..and Greater Israel

>>60655168
And that's your only contribution? Impossible. Then again, you already flexed your education so improbable.

This has been possible for a long time, it was just never worth it for the cost of doing it. It likely still isn't and never will be. But even if it were, that would be pretty cool. A new golden age.

>>60655351
Only some of the gold produced is radioactive, and you store the gold for some time until the radioactive gold decays into nonradioactive platinum, then separate the gold from the platinum through whatever process you like. At that point, it's indistinguishable from traditionally mined gold.

>>60654642 (OP)
Thanks for the heads up, I'll start to liquidate my stack when gold gets closer to Hg-198 prices.

>>60654642 (OP)
1 gram of tritium costs 30,000 us and has a half life of 13 years so it can't be made and stored.
Golds safe.

>>60654642 (OP)
>Checks kitco.com
>Nothing

Fuck off op.

>>60656543
Also, irradiating all the gold in fort knox is the plot of Goldfinger lol.

fake

>>60656557
You can't irradiate nothing can you?

>>60655058

>>60654642 (OP)
>we invented a machine that eats mercury and burns the equivalent of 100 kilos of coal for each kilo of gold it shits out
I don't believe they figured out a way to turn $600 worth of fuel into $100,000 worth of PMs, because if they really did, they'd be well-aware of the potential consequences of publicly bragging about owning an open-source money-printer.

>>60657744
they figured out the opposite
turns 100k into 600 bucks

If you think any kind of nuclear transmutation will ever be more economical than digging a resource out of a hole in the ground you are retarded. A multi-billion dollar government program to produce Pu238 for NASA has an output of like a few kilograms per year. The only time people get a resource like this is when they can't get it any other way.

>>60654642 (OP)
Called it.

>>60654669
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

>>60654669
that requires owning 51% of the protocol in order to execute a hard fork. And guess what, even if they do that and hard fork it, it wont be bitcoin anymore.

You literally can't print more bitcoin without altering the original protocol. The open source community will just go back to earlier blocks and start from there.

Theres a reason they calI it a fork. The values will simpIy disappear.

>>60654642 (OP)
>The process requires mercury-198 as a raw material, which currently costs around $15,000 USD per milligram in purified form.
so they gotta transform something costing $15,000,000/gram into something costing.. mhmm lemme check... right : $107/gram. That's the plan?

>>60654669
Another gay fork that will be ignored.

>>60655058
lmaoo

>>60655217
We just saw a price RISE during a
$9B market dump.

>>60659488
that wasn't a market dump. that was a polite amicable otc of 80k btc.
imagine a scorned satoshi wakes to his project being the banker coin.

dev owns 5% bro. never forget.

>>60659337
that's totally fine. just don't expect the market cap to still be there.

>>60659528
>a scorned satoshi wakes to his project being the banker coin.
dog, the old nodes connect to the current ones
the project is the exact same lmao

>>60654642 (OP)
This almost certainly costs more to do than the value of the gold you'd get from it.

>>60654669
Anything could replace bitcoin tomorrow if everyone decided to move on to a more efficient protocol. Litecoin, Xrp, whatever. People insist with bitcoin i'm guessing because it was the first and stuff, the most well recognized and everyone settled for it but that's it. It's nothing special and countless other coins do what btc does but cheaper and faster. Hell I sometimes buy giftcards using Npc, you can't really do that with BTC without fees up the wazoo.

>>60659686
almost certainly? certainly. unless you find a cheap source of the mercury isotope naturally, you need centrifuges, which is high tech, high energy and time intensive process
safe to say its not happening

>>60659528
>scorned satoshi wakes to his project being the banker coin
>Satoshi Nakamoto wakes up to his financial project being embraced by financiers and not retarded plebs; treated as the new gold

>>60655058

>>60654823
How many fusion reactors we have?

>>60660816
who are "we"? british mirpuris, chinese canadians?

>>60660816
>How many fusion reactors we have?
ask chatgpt or google it

>>60659337
So that's why they're buying, they want to nuke btc along with everything else that's tied to it (so the whole cryptomarket)
>I'll just sell them a bit of my BTC, what's the worst that could happen?

>>60660043
> fees up the wazoo
i recently confirmed my wallet to an exchange by sending a minuscule amount to them
my wallet automatically gave it an absolutely minimal fee, less than a real hundredth of a cent
the transaction was never meant to be confirmed, it simply had to be signed and picked up by the mempool

but it did get confirmed eventually. when the mempool gets cleared, even transaction with minimal fees get confirmed, theres no reason for the miners not to. so if you can wait a day or two, or even just a few hours to buy your game card, just use a minimal fee

>>60654642 (OP)
finally. now i can have my golden cutlery and golden toilet and bathtub

>>60654669
based retard

>>60659472
Mining BTC will cost even more in the future. Everything is doomed to fail

>>60655058

>>60654642 (OP)
>mint gold while mining bitcoin
topkek, goldfags eternally BTFO

>>60654642 (OP)
Why not simply mine asteroids? Would be cheaper and Elon could do it within a month.

>>60655448
>silver's market cap is artificially surpressed by 400 to 1 paper etf
yeah thats what happens when no one wants to ship fucking metal back and forth to each other all day. wont happen with crypto

>>60655058
bros....

>>60654692
a fork is something you eat with moron

>>60655338
Based and red pilled

This is a midwit test.

he used chatgpt and didn't even remove the em dashes