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Actually, you could--you could irradiate the gold to the point where decontamination would cost on the order of the worth of the gold itself.



I don't know about you, but no, I can't do that.


upvote for mentioning the evil scheming of a Bond villain in a serious conversation as a serious answer :)


No one said it was impossible to damage gold (there are easier wayd than to make it radioactive).

It's just much harder compared to doing comparable or greater value destruction to a bitcoin address, especially accidentally.




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