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All the Gold Ever Mined Fits in One Cube

Every ounce of gold humanity has mined in 5,000 years (~220,000 tonnes) fits in a single cube about 22 metres on a side — roughly 3-4 Olympic pools — and that ~60-year stock-to-flow is the scarcity property Bitcoin was built to copy.

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Data sources & references

01Above-ground gold ever mined ~216,000-220,000 t — World Gold Council, "How much gold has been mined?"
02Annual mine production ~3,300 t/yr — USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (gold), 2025-2026
03Stock-to-flow price-model failure vs actual — PlanB model; USGS annual average gold prices
04Music — "Between the Lines" by Ondrosik, CC0 1.0