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No it is not possible. All the possible alternative metals are already known and traded commodities. Gold also has many properties that people find desirable in a store of value: it is stable (resistant to oxidation), relatively rare, workable (fairly soft), etc. A new hash is for the most part equivalent to the last in the ways that count.



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