Gold is likely to become outdated as an anti-system store of value as technological advancements become integrated into daily life, and we are not talking about block chain becoming currency (which it is becoming). Gold may not be as rare as we thought.

Large hadron collider will be used to understand the very nature of atoms. We know that atoms can be best described as vibrating energy. This idea we get from the formula that energy is matter (e=mc^2) which gives string theory it’s appeal. So atoms are matter and matter = energy so atoms- protons and electrons- are just energy.

After more grants and research dollars are tossed at these progressive scouts of the new world like John Hammond to Dr. Grant in Jurassic Park, they will surely be able demonstrate some level of adeptness at turning atoms of Pb into Au. This will make the much more rare Au virtually worthless in the wild. So no longer will “plowmen dig the earth” as Dylan sings.

Most assets that depend on gold mining for their income stream are worthless as actual alchemy is likely to be acheived in mankind’s measureable future.