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		nazgulnarsil on Sept 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin is not a store of value do you imagine the energy cost of mining gold and silver to be the same? in this world, do you imagine that silver is unprofitable to mine or that gold is wildly profitable to mine? Maybe you should be buying gold mining stocks.

_glsb on Sept 27, 2022 [–]

I'm fine on my investments, thank you.

Since silver is often the byproduct of mining gold, the energy price should be pretty close, I'd think...

Crypto-bros reinventing the (train-wreck of) labour theory of value is my favorite genre of HN comments.

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