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Originally Posted by Ahldagor
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same here. the shiny thing is just too true. diamonds are pure carbon and not rare, but have crazy value. graphite is carbon too, but has little value yet we use it in pencils and lubricants...it's just not shiny...also this stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene |
The reason we don't use diamonds as currency but we do gold is that diamonds are not divisible. If you take a $100k diamond and break it into 2 smaller diamonds, they are worth far less than $100k combined. Gold is the same price per unit whether you have a milligram or a ton of it.