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Quote from: Hueristic on May 02, 2025, 11:17:59 PM

Quote from: d_eddie on May 02, 2025, 08:26:05 PM

The gold re-evaluation thing as an accounting trick (without actually selling any), I saw it mentioned first just before Orange Man took office. I think it was Hayes's blog - one of my preferred sources for bitcoin relevant macro analysis - but I wouldn't bet my family jewels on that. At any rate, it's not a new idea, as it's been mentioned several times after Biden went to sleep.

They located the philosophers stone!

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Scientists Discover a Fungus That Produces Real Gold — And You Can Grow It at Home

https://techoreon.com/discovery-of-fungus-producing-real-gold-grow-at-home/

Damn! I was up all night trying to figure out how to get me some of this fungus. Turns out this discovery was made 6 years ago and sadly, it doesn't actually turn other metals into gold but I suspected that due to the massive amounts of energy required for the transmutation of metals. Instead, the fungus acts as a biological catalyst which can produce the necessary oxidants and ligands [molecules or ions that form a bond with a central metal atom] to dissolve gold and then incorporate it into it's biomass. The gold has to already exist so we're not going to be able to run biological gold generators in out back yards with our used beer cans and brake rotors. Sad

It essentially catalyzes this reaction somehow:

Au_(s) + O₂^- + 2 H₂O_(l) = Au(OH)₄^- (log K₂₅ = -1.91)

O₂^- <-- this is known as superoxide and is a common byproduct of plant and fungal metabolic processes
(log K₂₅ = -1.91) <-- this negative value indicates that the reaction doesn't favour the right side under normal circumstances (which makes sense since gold is highly inert)

That sucks. Hopefully bitcoin will moon to make up for that disappointment.

I was hoping someone else would do the leg work as I'm getting to old and stupid to do these thing now.

I think in order to make this a viable en-devour it would have to be large scale in the correct environment, maybe in old mines that the previous tech didn't allow for a final refining process?

Well, my daughter is keeping my mind active by making me help her study for tests and quizzes. I know all about eukaryotes for example and I've also been refreshing maths and chemistry lately. I feel as though I've forgotten just about everything I had ever learned in school but it does come back to you once you look at it again. Helping her with computer programming was the most fun for me but that's her least favourite area of study Sad

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