When cubic zirconia came about a lot of people thought that the value of diamonds would reduce to virtually zero. Seems like a reasonable fear since scientists can now create perfect diamonds in the lab. But the reality is that humans continued to value the realness of the diamonds formed naturally. Combine that with the fact that creating diamonds in the lab still took a lot of energy and time, so it couldn't go to zero. I could see a similar thing occurring here, with manufactured gold having a base price and real gold maintaining it's higher value.
When cubic zirconia came about a lot of people thought that the value of diamonds would reduce to virtually zero. Seems like a reasonable fear since scientists can now create perfect diamonds in the lab. But the reality is that humans continued to value the realness of the diamonds formed naturally. Combine that with the fact that creating diamonds in the lab still took a lot of energy and time, so it couldn't go to zero. I could see a similar thing occurring here, with manufactured gold having a base price and real gold maintaining it's higher value.
That said, you never put all of your eggs in one basket. Buy multiple metals. Buy some bitcoin. Buy real assets. Etc...