Posted on 02/04/2022 3:44:45 AM PST by fruser1
A German artist has created a cube supposedly made from pure gold and plopped it in the middle of Manhattan's largest greenspace - in a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to a new cryptocoin that was launched at the same time.
Reportedly made from pure, 24-carat, 999.9 fine gold and weighing 410 pounds, Niclas Castello took more than 4,500 hours to create it. The cube has a hollow core.
If the gold is real, the entire artwork would be valued at $11.7 million, going by the current price of the precious metal of $1,788 per ounce.
A security team has been stationed near the Naumburg Bandshell in the southern portion of the park to keep watch over the prized structure in case someone tries to dash off the 410-pound cube in the crime-plagued city.
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Oh sorry.
Didn’t realize I dropped it.
What a brilliant way to get $11.7 million out of Europe...when they busted Colombians trying to get their drug proceeds from the US back down there, they had to fashion gold into everything metal they’d have on their persons (and still got caught) - belt buckles, eyeglass frames, shoe eyelets and aglets...
Rubiks mom: OK Rubik, what did you do with all my jewelry?
no doubt, the hollow core symbolizes the value of the new kryptokrap that’s being “launched” ...
A good magician could easily steal that and replace it with a gold colored lead box.
Where does one get 410 pounds of gold in order to make a block out of it?
You buy it.
Musta fell out of my pocket.
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10 bucks says it gets tagged by tomorrow.
410 pounds =
5979.167 troy ounces
The one on stage left is a lightweight.
‘Never before in the history of humanity has such an enormous amount of gold been cast into a single, pure object. Gold – the eternal metal. Symbol of the sun, of light, of the good,’ Castello wrote.
Exodus 30:1-3
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. 2A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. 3And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold
4500 hours to create that? My crappy bathroom remodeler worked fAster than that.
Yep, beat it’s gone in 1 week. Maybe a lot of new gold tooth people walking around…..
They have also never heard of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in India. Among its holdings:
* A 4-foot high and 3-foot wide solid pure-golden idol of Mahavishnu studded with diamonds and other fully precious stones.[8]
* A solid pure-golden throne, studded with hundreds of diamonds and precious stones, meant for the 18-foot idol of deity
* An 18-foot (5.5 m) long pure-gold chain among thousands of pure-gold chains
* A pure-gold sheaf weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 lb)
Who has 410 pounds of gold for sale?
4500 hours of labor? That is more than two solid years of labor.It seems quite a bit to create a simple cube.
Glitter bomb?
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