A U.S. startup has successfully produced the FIRST REAL LAB-GROWN GOLD. And its process has already surpassed CERN’s gold production by 10 TIMES. And they’re not stopping there.
Their model says that a future 1 GW fusion plant could produce around 2 TONS OF GOLD PER YEAR.
This changes everything: For thousands of years, gold had an advantage no one could replicate: SCARCITY. New supply could only come from finding more deposits, building more mines, and extracting more metal from the earth.
Now technology is attacking that assumption directly. And we’ve already seen what happens when technology destroys a scarcity premium. DIAMONDS.
Lab-grown diamonds entered the market: - Production scaled up. - Prices collapsed. Natural diamonds suddenly had to compete with something that was chemically almost identical and could be produced at a fraction of the cost.
Gold could now face the same problem. But this could be much bigger: Gold isn’t just jewelry. Central banks hold it. Governments hold it. ETFs hold it. Investors use it as a store of value.
And entire reserve strategies depend on one assumption: YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE MORE GOLD. That assumption is now being challenged. And here’s the part almost no one understands: Marathon isn’t talking about building factories that exist solely to make gold. Gold could become a BYPRODUCT OF FUSION ENERGY. The reactor generates energy.
It also generates neutrons. Those neutrons can turn mercury into gold. And gold itself could help make fusion plants more profitable. Now connect the dots: More fusion plants → more gold production → more revenue from gold → better fusion economics → even more reactors
Bitcoin isn’t replicable; aluminum and diamonds replicated it, and their prices fell.
Their model says that a future 1 GW fusion plant could produce around 2 TONS OF GOLD PER YEAR.
This changes everything: For thousands of years, gold had an advantage no one could replicate: SCARCITY. New supply could only come from finding more deposits, building more mines, and extracting more metal from the earth.
Now technology is attacking that assumption directly. And we’ve already seen what happens when technology destroys a scarcity premium. DIAMONDS.
Lab-grown diamonds entered the market: - Production scaled up. - Prices collapsed. Natural diamonds suddenly had to compete with something that was chemically almost identical and could be produced at a fraction of the cost.
Gold could now face the same problem. But this could be much bigger: Gold isn’t just jewelry. Central banks hold it. Governments hold it. ETFs hold it. Investors use it as a store of value.
And entire reserve strategies depend on one assumption: YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE MORE GOLD. That assumption is now being challenged. And here’s the part almost no one understands: Marathon isn’t talking about building factories that exist solely to make gold. Gold could become a BYPRODUCT OF FUSION ENERGY. The reactor generates energy.
It also generates neutrons. Those neutrons can turn mercury into gold. And gold itself could help make fusion plants more profitable. Now connect the dots: More fusion plants → more gold production → more revenue from gold → better fusion economics → even more reactors
Bitcoin isn’t replicable; aluminum and diamonds replicated it, and their prices fell.
