Will the gold market survive the atomic-scale personal manufacturing future?
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Re: Will the gold market survive the atomic-scale personal manufacturing future?
with the exception of coins that were slabbed before the invention of nanoprinting how will you tell a coin (printed atom by atom) from a minted one? i would think the printer would be able to create/ build-in every detail left by the minting process in atomically accurate detail? possibly including effects of aging and wear.
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Re: Will the gold market survive the atomic-scale personal manufacturing future?
There isn't any such thing as nanosynthetic gold bullion. Other than that, I see your point.MachineGhost wrote:No intrinsic value beyond the gold atoms? Unlike natural diamonds which have flaws to tell them apart from synthetic, how are you going to tell a bar of nanosynthetic gold bullion apart from the genuine article? With gold coins -- especially [semi]numismatic -- there's intrinsic value beyond just the gold atoms.Libertarian666 wrote: You've lost me. Why would 3D nanoprinting affect the value of a bullion gold coin?
