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Can Humans Make Gold? How Gold Is Created in Stars, Labs, and Why Stackers Should Not Worry For centuries, alchemists chased the most seductive idea in the history of money: turn something cheap into gold. Lead was dull, heavy, common, and ordinary. Gold was bright, rare, incorruptible, and powerful enough to decorate kings, finance empires, settle debts, inspire wars, and survive every paper currency that tried to replace it. If a person could turn lead into gold, he would n

Introduction: The Fear of Infinite Supply Whenever precious metals are discussed, one argument inevitably appears: "Why own gold or silver when there are asteroids worth quadrillions of dollars?" At first glance, the argument sounds devastating. If unimaginable quantities of gold and silver exist throughout the solar system, wouldn't asteroid mining eventually destroy the value of precious metals? The answer is much more complicated—and far more interesting. Yes, vast quantit