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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by djtango on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:14PM (#41490827)
Because synthetic diamonds are indistinguishable to the naked eye (IIRC a trained eye with a magnifying glass can spot faint nitrogen impurities which are characteristic of natural diamonds) the thing you're really paying for is the piece of paper, the certificate. You're not really paying for carbon allotrope.

So it's less like gold which is fungible and a more natural form of money.

Diamonds feel more like an NFT...

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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by justinparus on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:16PM (#41493151)
Agreed. So much so I wonder if they engrave all lab-grown ones, so they don’t get mixed up easily with mined and ruin their price.
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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by onlypassingthru on Monday September 09, 2024 @06:03PM (#41494548)
If I'm not mistaken, diamonds get etched with a serial number when they get graded so you can look up the history later.
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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by heavenlyblue on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:29PM (#41493337)
In fact, De Beers have been agressively hiring for their osn blockchain-for-diamonds project.
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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:53PM (#41503581)
god the blockchain hype cancer never ends
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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by pharrington on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:37PM (#41494253)
More importantly, you're paying for the human rights violations. Hopefully, synthetic diamonds eventually become popular enough to destroy the perverse incentives fueling the traditional diamond trade.
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Re:Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and che... by kelnos on Monday September 09, 2024 @09:33PM (#41496311)
While yes, you are literally paying for the certificate, what you're really paying for is propagandized emotion.

The diamond cartel did a great job equating "real", mined diamonds with love and romance. For some couples, unfortunately, lab-grown just doesn't have the same feel to it.

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