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      "text": "THIS IS INSANE!!! A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold. The company is Marathon Fusion. This week they announced they'd made stable gold using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record CERN set in 2025. CERN's record was 29 picograms over four years. So nobody's pouring bars yet. The method is what got me. You hit mercury-198 with a fusion neutron. It loses a neutron, becomes mercury-197, and over the next few days decays into gold-197. The exact same gold sitting in central bank vaults. Their 2025 paper says a one-gigawatt fusion plant built this way could make around 2 tonnes of gold a year as a side product, while it's selling electricity. I've said it for years. Gold is a shiny rock. It's valuable because there's only so much of it and pulling it out of the ground is hard and expensive. If this holds up, gold's scarcity turns into an engineering problem. And you can only delay technical progress. You can't stop it. To be fair, the gold comes out mixed with radioactive isotopes and would need to sit for well over a decade before it's safe to touch. Nobody outside the company has verified the result yet, and commercial fusion is still years away. Peter Schiff has spent years telling everyone Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. This week a startup says it made gold out of mercury. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. No reactor on Earth can make one more.",
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      "title": "Marathon Fusion and the mercury-to-gold claim",
      "summary": "@aakashgupta (7.3K likes, 632.0K views) says a San Francisco startup turned mercury into gold with fusion neutrons, and that Marathon now frames itself as an isotope company for radiopharma, citing actinium-225 and molybdenum-99. @EvanLuthra (6.4K likes, 980.9K views) says Marathon Fusion made stable gold at 10x CERN's 2025 record of 29 picograms. He adds that nobody outside the company has verified the result and that the gold would need to sit for well over a decade.",
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