First person who can figure out a way to 1) get to a white dwarf and 2) mine it is going to be rich.
Well, the quantity is so vast (larger than the Earth itself by orders of magnitude) that the price of diamonds would plummet. Better to find an asteroid hurled out of some diamond-composed body. :’)
“First person who can figure out a way to 1) get to a white dwarf and 2) mine it is going to be rich.”
Not so at all. Supply would totally exceed demand. Diamonds will be a dime, a dozen.