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Analyst: Lab-Grown Gold Would Sharpen Bitcoin's Scarcity Edge

  • —Marathon Fusion said it demonstrated high-rate alchemy, turning mercury into stable gold
  • —In 2025 the firm outlined output of roughly 5,000 kg of gold a year from a 1 GW fusion plant
  • —Eckel: lab-grown gold will eventually be cheap like diamonds, but there will never be lab-grown BTC
  • —Commercial-scale artificial gold production remains a distant prospect
Why it matters: The argument reinforces Bitcoin's fixed-supply narrative as its key differentiator from gold for long-term investors.
Source: U.Today