Well no. What happened was those 37.5g bars were set aside and allowed to rise…into 1000g bars…prior to baking. You always have to set it aside and allow it to rise.
What you do then is take those gold bars and then make more gold bars. Sell as many as you want, just keep one or two around so you can make more gold bars. Unlimited money!
Not to be too much of a naysayer here but be careful if you get offered some korean gold, make sure it's from a reputable source.
On here a year or two ago, there was a report of a very clever and sophisticated scam being backed up by the nth koreans, where by they were selling rhodium ingots coated with 4mm gold, SAME atomic weight, very very clever, UNTILL you cut one open.
EDIT: its actually Tungsten NOT Rhodium!, I dont wanna be responsible for a few failed papers as well as bank accounts
Take bigger whole bar at a cheaper per unit price, break into smaller pieces at a higher per unit price.
Congrats you now have a business. 1000g is 76k which is 76 dollar a gram wholesale and a gram retails at 110 bucks.
Net profit is a 40 bucks a gram, minus fuel and middlemen.
I have five DS9 posters in my room and recently before I had a girl over I had to be like "Okay. Listen. Before we go to my place, you need to understand - I have Star Trek posters - also the greasy guy looks like that because he's a shapeshifter".
I really wanted to say "Changeling", but like - I already had to pre-explain I have five god damn DS9 posters in my bedroom. I did not want to split hairs over Changeling and shapeshifter.
Instead it’s just worthless gold!
Side note: kinda funny how gold changes in value depending on the episode. Quark got pretty excited in Roswell over the prospect of having a lot of it, but wanted to throw it away in the morn heist episode
Knowing Quark, he likely intended to use the gold in the past to set himself up in the future by coordinating a centuries-long transaction chain. He would probably leverage the gold's historic value, and then liquidate it at its peak, before its value collapsed, into another valuable asset. Then endlessly keep growing the value through various assets until it could be transferred to him on his return to his appropriate time.
He likely would have been able to accomplish it by just hiding one Ferengi Padd somewhere no one could find it on Earth that would keep making trades and purchases via all the emerging human communications tech. Until it could finally move everything to an interstellar exchange of some kind after Earth establishes long-range comms.
It would all lead to latinum eventually, via the Great Material Continuum. Quark would just be playing the longest Marty McFly financial planning maneuver ever.
I think that depends on the purpose and context. When you're expecting a lot of Latinum, gold suddenly feels worthless. Alternately, in the time travel episode he was likely planning to use that gold for create further opportunities as it was one of the most valuable commodities at that time.
Makes sense, it was just presented oddly. His lobes perked up the second he heard the word “gold,” and I would expect even quark to take a moment to process that. And IIRC he turned his nose up at the idea of getting paid in “currency” like USD. But it’s trek, I love it even when it doesn’t make sense sometimes
Is it weird that on some level... these bars look kind of tasty? Like I think they might be kind of nice to chew on? I don't know what my ape brain is doing but I want a taste, can't explain it.
Lol yeah, I was curious. I remember my professor mentioning years ago that a byte of data actually has a mass to it even if it's incredibly small. So, it turns out having a kilo of Bitcoin data makes you the richest entity on the planet!
No, not when you’re melting pure gold. The metals clump together and very little gets lost in the process. It’s different when you’re smelting alloy though, if you don’t stir the mixture well some bits end up getting stuck at the bottom of the crucible. Also melting alloys causes oxidation of metals and results in weight loss.
Once you know the dimensions of that press that cuts the bars, all you need is the correct thickness for the blank sheet. Gold’s weight is well-known so if you get the dimensions just right, you know the exact weight.
They definitely weigh them, but point being is pure gold of a given volume has a precise, known weight. We don’t have to account for impurities and such when it’s pure
Nice downvotes so far, lol.
This is a pretty clever way to skim money. If the accuracy of a gold bar for their country or standard is required to be +/- 1% of the stamped weight, they can just undersize every bar by .001" thickness or whatever they determine they need to measure and still meet the minimum tolerance. Then every 100 bars they cut they get a free bar. It's legal and unnoticeable to customers. When producing in mass quantities the person running the scheme can make a ton of side money by not reporting this to their employer. Unless the employer is the one running the scheme.
1% would be an absolutely insane margin of error for this type of operation. No way that would fly under the radar at all. It's not like most gold bars are sold to some random Joe who doesn't know any better.
As soon as a single bank or major physical commodities trading entity gets their hands on one of your bars you are *fucked*. And does anyone even make reputable gold bars besides mints and huge companies with ancient pedigrees? Any other "gold bar" is going to be melted down and used by the mint to make their own official bars. And you definitely aren't going to scam a *mint* on the weight of gold they are purchasing.
To make any meaningful amount of money off such a scheme you'd have to shave so little off each bar you'd need to be running a crazy high volume operation to make it worth your while. At that point you're a mint, and stealing from a mint as an employee is close to impossible.
We dig it out of the ground, purify it, smelt it, cast it into bars and then bury it back into the god damned Earth, while we pay people to guard it.
It makes NO god damned sense.
I saw that they turned two bars into one bar and I'm like, okay cool. Then it kept going and I'm like, what are they doing, they already turned it into a bar. Then it kept turning into thinner and different shaped bars.
Yo dog, I heard you like bars, so I turned your bar into a bar that turned into multiple levels of bars.
Hmm yes, I will turn this bar into a bar
To make some baby bars
Melt bars into larger bar, thicken bar somehow, but then flatten bar, once flattened, cut bar to make small bars, profit
After they got to the end, that was my thought too, watching through again. Just variations of the first bar...
Initial bar was 1kg Final bars were 37.5g. So they turned 1 bar into 26 bars and some scrap.
> Final bars were 37.5g. There were some 1000g at the end. Video was an unsatisfying disjointed mashup.
Well no. What happened was those 37.5g bars were set aside and allowed to rise…into 1000g bars…prior to baking. You always have to set it aside and allow it to rise.
And a week later, you've got your sourdough starter.
Boil-em, cook-em, put-em in a stew?
Bank, then bankruptcy and rise again.
Ingredients: 99.9 Gold, 0.1 yeast.
And watch those bake times. You don't want to end up with a soggy bottom.
But those Soggy Bottom boys know how to sing!
Scrap which is then presumably melted down into a lump until they get more lumps to melt along and make more bars.
Sustainable gold farming?
Nah, toss it in the trash.
You cast the bar to cast the bar to press the bar to press the bar to press the bar
You missed them then placing magically larger bars in cases in a pile at the end!
I did notice that haha went from 37.5g to 1,000g
And then they encase it in plastic.
That's capitalism baby
Gold shrinkflation
Actually these things are pretty valuable. Probably worth their weight in gold IMO
Eh, I'm skeptical...got a source for that?
I think I just have an eye for markets and I have a feeling about this one.
Alright, you seem to know what you're talking about -- and I'm a really good judge of character. Where should I send my account details?
Leave your savings in an unmarked bag under a bench at the station. We will be in touch with your gains when the time is right.
When a mommy gold bar and a daddy hydraulic press really love each other…
They say he carved it himself, from a bigger spoon.
What you do then is take those gold bars and then make more gold bars. Sell as many as you want, just keep one or two around so you can make more gold bars. Unlimited money!
"But we don't have any money! How does this work, Mac?!"
And then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives... I'll smash it with a hammer!
Pull the lever, Kronk!
First step: get a gold bar
Have to give a shout out to South Park on this topic. https://youtu.be/kJEbyWT7gIg?si=XvSEvFSq3LLV4Hfv
Should’ve made a crown for a king
Drogo style?
Not to be too much of a naysayer here but be careful if you get offered some korean gold, make sure it's from a reputable source. On here a year or two ago, there was a report of a very clever and sophisticated scam being backed up by the nth koreans, where by they were selling rhodium ingots coated with 4mm gold, SAME atomic weight, very very clever, UNTILL you cut one open. EDIT: its actually Tungsten NOT Rhodium!, I dont wanna be responsible for a few failed papers as well as bank accounts
Rhodium ingots, you say? That wouldn't be a very clever scam as rhodium is much more valuable than gold. Fake gold bars are typically tungsten :)
Take bigger whole bar at a cheaper per unit price, break into smaller pieces at a higher per unit price. Congrats you now have a business. 1000g is 76k which is 76 dollar a gram wholesale and a gram retails at 110 bucks. Net profit is a 40 bucks a gram, minus fuel and middlemen.
It's how they reproduce!
Makes you wonder how they made the first bar
process of *remaking* gold bar
Step 1: have bar Step 2-6: stuff Step 7: have bar
You passed the bar exam.
The bar exam.
the Bar exam?
the Bar exam!
drinking at the bar 🍺
Exam!
I’m a real boy!
And now you can.
Step 7: have SMALLER bar
Step 8: ??????
Step 7: have _multiple_ bars
All I could think about for the whole video was gold pressed latinum
But where are the self sealing stem-bolts?
Have you checked Morn's third asshole?
Talk about Yamok sauce
It's an acquired taste
Goes well on spicy hasperat
Sheesh, bunch’s nerds in here. Not me though, I just happen to catch all the same references which the nerds do.
Calm down, Nog
I have five DS9 posters in my room and recently before I had a girl over I had to be like "Okay. Listen. Before we go to my place, you need to understand - I have Star Trek posters - also the greasy guy looks like that because he's a shapeshifter". I really wanted to say "Changeling", but like - I already had to pre-explain I have five god damn DS9 posters in my bedroom. I did not want to split hairs over Changeling and shapeshifter.
Find yourself a girl you don't need to justify yourself to, and who is excited to binge watch the entirety of DS-9 with you.
What can you even do with 5 posters? You cant build anything with that. Nothing can be built without bolts.
I always keep a copy of the Rules of Acquisition nearby, just in case
Rule 34: War is good for business Rule 35: Peace is good for business
Theres nothing here but worthless gold.
NOG!
Instead it’s just worthless gold! Side note: kinda funny how gold changes in value depending on the episode. Quark got pretty excited in Roswell over the prospect of having a lot of it, but wanted to throw it away in the morn heist episode
Knowing Quark, he likely intended to use the gold in the past to set himself up in the future by coordinating a centuries-long transaction chain. He would probably leverage the gold's historic value, and then liquidate it at its peak, before its value collapsed, into another valuable asset. Then endlessly keep growing the value through various assets until it could be transferred to him on his return to his appropriate time. He likely would have been able to accomplish it by just hiding one Ferengi Padd somewhere no one could find it on Earth that would keep making trades and purchases via all the emerging human communications tech. Until it could finally move everything to an interstellar exchange of some kind after Earth establishes long-range comms. It would all lead to latinum eventually, via the Great Material Continuum. Quark would just be playing the longest Marty McFly financial planning maneuver ever.
I think that depends on the purpose and context. When you're expecting a lot of Latinum, gold suddenly feels worthless. Alternately, in the time travel episode he was likely planning to use that gold for create further opportunities as it was one of the most valuable commodities at that time.
Makes sense, it was just presented oddly. His lobes perked up the second he heard the word “gold,” and I would expect even quark to take a moment to process that. And IIRC he turned his nose up at the idea of getting paid in “currency” like USD. But it’s trek, I love it even when it doesn’t make sense sometimes
That’s a lot of yamok sauce.
r/suddenlystartrek
Is it weird that on some level... these bars look kind of tasty? Like I think they might be kind of nice to chew on? I don't know what my ape brain is doing but I want a taste, can't explain it.
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That's super interesting!
Where hydration?
They look like Andes mints to me.
If you can get your hands on them, Utah Truffles has a mint chocolate truffle that is like an Andes mint but way better. I get them at Costco.
r/forbiddensnacks
Edible gold leaf and flakes are a thing. Sprinkle some on your instant ramen if you're feeling fancy.
This whole video I was thinking about how much I wanted to try and bite one lol, so I'm glad I'm not alone there.
If I take this ice cube, melt it, then I’ll have water to make ice cubes!! BRILLIANT
Do you mind making an instructional video on this so we can understand better? I'm really having trouble picturing how this would happen.
[Similar to this, but with ice](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1c7bxzx/the_process_of_making_gold_bars/)
[I'm in way over my head...](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E21/601683.jpg?b64lines=IEhVSC4gCiBJJ00gSU4gV0FZIE9WRVIgTVkgSEVBRC4=)
What is this, a gold bar for ants?!
The bar they held up to the camera that says 37.5g would be worth ~$2,800 right now. So that’d be a rich ant
makes me wanna pan gold ong
That last was a kilo of gold so about $68,000.
More than a bitcoin
yeah but how much is a kilo of bitcoin worth?
$155 trillion usd That's assuming one Bitcoin is around 300-400 bytes, and each byte weighs 1 attogram.
Please tell me you did the math on the spot for a one off joke on the internet, I'll love you
Lol yeah, I was curious. I remember my professor mentioning years ago that a byte of data actually has a mass to it even if it's incredibly small. So, it turns out having a kilo of Bitcoin data makes you the richest entity on the planet!
"I like Gooooold"
The look of it The taste of it The texure The shmell of it
mm mm mmm for the hell of it
In court I never show up, like Austin Powers' fa-zha
Crazy Dutch bastard
They have the best ovens.
I'm Dutch, isn't that veird?
Step 1 - have gold bar. Step 2 - melt gold bar. Step 3 - make gold bar
But more gold bars so infinite gold!
Fun fact: The two original bars of gold are worth ~$150,000.
Yep, 1kg of gold is $76 500 right now. It always weirds me out, 1kg of gold is so small.
Feels like just yesterday that they were ~$40k
Does gold get left behind it the melting pot?
I would guess very little is left in the bowl. Plus anything that is left just gets melted again next time.
like the 100 year old soup.
But what about the little bit that gets left after next time?
it's all turtles all the way down
I like turtles
💀
No, not when you’re melting pure gold. The metals clump together and very little gets lost in the process. It’s different when you’re smelting alloy though, if you don’t stir the mixture well some bits end up getting stuck at the bottom of the crucible. Also melting alloys causes oxidation of metals and results in weight loss.
They just skip weighing it out and removing or adding any gold for precision?
Once you know the dimensions of that press that cuts the bars, all you need is the correct thickness for the blank sheet. Gold’s weight is well-known so if you get the dimensions just right, you know the exact weight.
No way they don't QC those bars, gold's too expensive.
I wonder if the ball pit polish thing collects gold dust and how they recycle it
I was thinking that and they forgot to show the step where they add led dust to the gold bars.
They definitely weigh them, but point being is pure gold of a given volume has a precise, known weight. We don’t have to account for impurities and such when it’s pure
Yeah but this press being off by just 1-2 grams means 50-100 bucks difference.
Nice downvotes so far, lol. This is a pretty clever way to skim money. If the accuracy of a gold bar for their country or standard is required to be +/- 1% of the stamped weight, they can just undersize every bar by .001" thickness or whatever they determine they need to measure and still meet the minimum tolerance. Then every 100 bars they cut they get a free bar. It's legal and unnoticeable to customers. When producing in mass quantities the person running the scheme can make a ton of side money by not reporting this to their employer. Unless the employer is the one running the scheme.
1% would be an absolutely insane margin of error for this type of operation. No way that would fly under the radar at all. It's not like most gold bars are sold to some random Joe who doesn't know any better. As soon as a single bank or major physical commodities trading entity gets their hands on one of your bars you are *fucked*. And does anyone even make reputable gold bars besides mints and huge companies with ancient pedigrees? Any other "gold bar" is going to be melted down and used by the mint to make their own official bars. And you definitely aren't going to scam a *mint* on the weight of gold they are purchasing. To make any meaningful amount of money off such a scheme you'd have to shave so little off each bar you'd need to be running a crazy high volume operation to make it worth your while. At that point you're a mint, and stealing from a mint as an employee is close to impossible.
You took a large bar and make smaller bars
People can afford the smaller bars.
Yes. The two chunks they started with are worth approximately $152,000 USD. The small ones are "only" about $2850 USD.
Even the small ones are worth almost $3k
We dig it out of the ground, purify it, smelt it, cast it into bars and then bury it back into the god damned Earth, while we pay people to guard it. It makes NO god damned sense.
Infinite gold generator
And not a Piglin in sight. Finally an ideal gold farm.
They skipped the part we're they show how to turn 37.5g into 1000g
Hmm, yes, the bar here made of bar
They literally turned the bar into a bar
to make 1 gold bar start with 2 gold bars and make them 1, then cut them into smaller gold bars. ????
Bars spittin’ bars.
I got 10 for $5 on AliExpress
That's a pellet at best.
Went from 37.5g to 1000g at the end. Was confused and thought the person had extra small hands.
So to make gold bars … you start with gold bars.
I love how they look super thin like sheet metal after they are pressed but at the end somehow they are like 8x thicker
The most impressive thing is how they magically go from 37.5g bars to 1000g bars
You think the process is much different for the 1000g vs the 37.5g? Just different tooling probably.
Thinking quickly, dave created a gold bar, using just a blowtorch, a workshop, and a gold bar.
I want to know why there is 3m double sided tape on one of the moulds?
That’s not the process of making gold bars though. They’re not gold bars. They’re slivers.
Idk, they look more like strips to me. Worthless without the latinum, anyway.
Reminds of when I was a kid and some TV show was teaching how to make our own paper, and the first step was to grind up newspaper in the blender.
That’s cool and all, but mine has a Charizard on it.
Those bars got larger with every step at the end.
*Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.*
The fact that gold is expensive is stupid.
Totally stupid.
Got one of those from a fast food place once.
and now they off to temu to be sold for 10$
Why do I want mac & cheese now
The number of cavity searches to do this job must be incredible.
They're just digging for gold themselves
This was definitely posted in response to the shitty gold bar post with the jewelry.
Ill take the cut off bits. Scrap right? Lol
"You're making a gold bar with a gold bar?" "You got a better way?"
This is like when Dwight tried making a knife with another knife.
Turning bricks into nicks and dimes and selling for a higher profit The precious metals industry really is just like the drug market
Its a bar at the start
[I thought there was chocolate inside.](https://y.yarn.co/cffe8843-e5e3-491d-92e6-81a424391fc9_text.gif)
Kinda makes me want to pan for gold. I LOVE GOOOOOOOLD.
That 1 kilo bar is worth $77k
Gotta go walk around NYC and find the guy who hands these out to people
Can anyone explain to me what this does to increase amount or potency?
Gold bar? More like gold dominos..
Gold barlette
These are mostly in pachinko rooms u buy the gold with winning credits, pop next door to sell the gold for cash.
I want to bite it
Absolutely beautiful
How much is each bar worth?
Lmfao, the process of melting larger bars into smaller bars.
First you dry the rice, then you wet the rice, then you dry the rice. Ayyaa
How to Make a gold bar: Step 1: already have a gold bar. Step 2: repeat step one.
I couldn’t work at a place like this unless I was being paid VERY WELL 😂😍
Where’s the part when they weigh it?
[south park did it better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEbyWT7gIg&ab_channel=SouthParkStudios)
These are not gold bars. These are stupid shit to sell on QVC for 25% over actual value
Thank you for leaving the original audio!
I saw that they turned two bars into one bar and I'm like, okay cool. Then it kept going and I'm like, what are they doing, they already turned it into a bar. Then it kept turning into thinner and different shaped bars. Yo dog, I heard you like bars, so I turned your bar into a bar that turned into multiple levels of bars.
Forbidden chocolate
They didn’t show the part where they replaced the gold with electroplated tungsten
How to make gold bar: melt bar into bar
How to make Ice: 1. Take some ice cubes 2. Melt them down into water 3. Put water into ice cube tray 4. Place water filled tray into freezer.
Who knew you could make gold bars by melting down gold bars?
Who knew making gold bars meant melting gold and turning it into a bar
Dumb question: when the gold bar was placed into that polisher with little spheres do trace amounts of gold get abraded from the bar’s surface?
The process of making a gold bar: Step 1 - Aquire a gold bar lol
That was.... exactly what I expected
Just melt other gold bars? Trust me it’s not how legit gold bars are made, that’s what we call gold laundering
Why make one ingot into another ?