Analyst Jesse Eckel believes that Bitcoin may have a significant advantage over gold due to its mathematically limited supply. He noted that technological breakthroughs could make gold available for production in laboratories, undermining its scarcity.
"The reality is: lab-grown gold will appear sooner or later and become cheap, like diamonds," Eckel said. He added that there will never be lab-grown Bitcoin. On October 21, startup Marathon Fusion announced that it successfully demonstrated the transformation of mercury into gold, surpassing CERN's record tenfold. The company also stated that it developed a powerful plasma centrifuge for isotope enrichment, which surpassed the Soviet record that stood for forty years. Marathon Fusion is working on creating a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
In 2025, Marathon Fusion described a process that could theoretically produce about 5,000 kilograms of gold annually at a gigawatt-scale facility. However, mass commercial production remains distant: the latest experimental data does not confirm the possibility of cheap or industrial production of artificial gold. Eckel emphasizes that unlike gold, whose total supply may increase due to new technologies and potential nuclear transformation, Bitcoin has a maximum of 21 million coins, and its issuance follows a predetermined schedule, with mining rewards halving approximately every four years.
This material is prepared solely for informational purposes and does not constitute financial advice or a recommendation.
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