# Why we need more silver

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Johnny Harris
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOp6FCBn8ZA
- **Дата:** 22.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 2:18
- **Просмотры:** 803,161

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOp6FCBn8ZA) Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00)

Okay, so silver is on a roll. It's now the second most traded precious metal in the world just behind gold and a bunch of you asked about this, so I'm going to explain why. We actually use silver, more silver than we can mine. And unlike gold that mostly sits in vaults, it's actually incredibly useful. It's the best conductor of electricity on the planet and it doesn't corrode easily. This is a powerful combo and because of this powerful combo, it ends up in things like cars and smartphones and data centers and solar panels and the entire power grid. I mean, solar alone is a huge one. We're making a lot of solar panels lately and each of these panels uses like a silver paste to pull electricity out of the cell. Times that by like a gazillion solar panels that we're making and we're using a lot of silver. And that's just one industry. Silver is so versatile. It can be used to make microscopic wires. It can be flattened into sheets. It's super reflective, so it's great for advanced electronics. It's antibacterial and not toxic, which makes it crucial for medical equipment. And now AI is exploding all of this. We need more silver for data centers and for microchips. Okay, so why don't we just mine more silver? Well, we don't actually mine silver. We mine other things and as a byproduct, we get silver. The supply of silver relies on a bunch of different industries with different economic dynamics. So, if you want to just mine more silver, you don't do that. Okay, but can we recycle the silver that we use? Yes, we technically could, but because we just use a tiny little teaspoon of silver for all of these products, we rarely actually put in the effort to like go find it and melt it down and reuse it. So, silver is kind of just disappearing into the infrastructure that we're building. And when you reduce the supply, the price goes up and that's what's happening. But this isn't new. Silver was like the OG gold. Like, it was the first thing that we used for currency before gold took over. And like gold, the reason why people are buying up silver is because they feel insecure about our financial system. They feel like things are a little too topsy-turvy right now, so they invest in precious metals that they think will retain value even as everything else kind of goes up and down. But, what's weird about this is how it is at once in vaults and in factories at the same time. So, the rise of value in silver is both an expression of our fear and insecurity and our technological advancement. Right now, it's both.

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*Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/51309*