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FIRST BITCOIN. THEN GAMESTOP. NOW TINY TUNGSTEN CUBES.
ONLINE INVESTORS CRAVE TANGIBLE PLEASURE OF HOLDING SURPRISINGLY HEAVY METAL
BLOCKS; 1.7 TIMES AS DENSE AS LEAD
NEERAJ K. AGRAWAL OF COIN CENTER CONTEMPLATING HIS TUNGSTEN CUBE.
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They bought the bitcoin dip. They took GameStop to the moon. Now the online
investor army has a new favorite thing to buy and hold: small tungsten cubes.
Even in a year that has featured dog-meme cryptocurrencies and rappers shilling
SPACs, tungsten cubes stand out. They are as inert as they sound: gray, an inch
or two on each side and 1.7 times as dense as lead. A major selling point,
according to Amazon.com ’s product page, is that they are “extremely heavy for
their size.”
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