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Blockchain tokenization is only for high risk negative reward people.
There may be market for artisanaly doped synthetics by customer design or something.
Right now you can buy 100g of diamonds for low teens in $ from China. Diamonds are produced in enormous quantities as abrasives. And if you do something on large scale you become better at it.
So far we haven't invested in big monocrystals because there was not much use for them aside from jewelry and probably other small niches. The moment some R&D makes something useful out of them - they will be Jevoned into oblivion.
Can you hear the sound of DeBeers' execs melting down? I intend to play it as a white noise while I sleep.
Return to office is just punishment for employees getting ideas above their station during the covid years.
So usually in the USA the smarter move is just to wait for the thing to fall off from the news cycle instead of creating news fodder every day with a trial.
We are moving anyway towards Escape from NY/LA world. Let's at least take the good parts from it.