@mitch2 *L* Not so much crypto, more like cryptic....
If the former, the price would have oscillating up ’n down like a yoyo....
I’ve an old friend that still owns her fathers’ ’41 Ford with a flathead 4, the front engine mounts are a pair of water pumps. One of the ’duties’ of being her boytoy was to periodically jack the engine up and take the weight off the pumps to replace one or the other and recycle it. Turns out, then and likely still now, the pump traveled to Brazil to be restored and returned.
Turns out, like Cuba, there’s still a lot of the old iron still on the streets.
We thought of, but never tried, marking the case of one to see if it ever ended up back in our possession eventually....
One wonders if the stones are subject to the same song ’n dance if they end up back in a dealers’ shelf as @testpilot noted.
Ought not to be too difficult to recycle a rock.... 😏
Personally, I’d rather just do some ’inhalation therapy’ of a fav herbal that Yes, can’t be recycled but has far more impact on my audio appreciation events....
...but, to mangle a quote, I’m just bored that way...;)