{"id":750492,"date":"2026-10-30T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-golds-infinite-mint-bug-make-bitcoin-more-valuable\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:35:23","slug":"will-golds-infinite-mint-bug-make-bitcoin-more-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-golds-infinite-mint-bug-make-bitcoin-more-valuable\/","title":{"rendered":"Will gold\u2019s \u2018infinite mint bug\u2019 make Bitcoin more valuable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin\u2019s claim to be a better form of digital gold?<\/p>\n

They say all that glitters is not gold, and that took on a completely different meaning this month when a US fusion startup claimed it had produced gold from mercury. <\/p>\n

Rather than chemical trickery, Marathon Fusion\u2019s process relies on nuclear transmutation. Its research paper describes<\/a> how high-energy neutrons from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction can irradiate mercury-198, producing a radioactive isotope that decays into stable gold-197. <\/p>\n

So, if gold has what some are calling<\/a> an \u201cinfinite mint bug,\u201d what will happ<\/a>en to the centuries-old metal so revered for its scarcity? And what, if anything, could that mean for Bitcoin as digital gold given it has a hard-capped supply?<\/p>\n

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A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin\u2019s claim to be a better form of digital gold? They say all that glitters is not gold, and that took on a completely different meaning this month when a US fusion startup claimed it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/10\/01M63WZ15V7ZF12NWAD2K229V7\/hi-magazine-unexpected-crypto-millionaires.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}