In the ultimate glow-up from “trash to treasure,” a Chinese blogger turned mountains of old SIM cards and gold-plated e-waste into a shiny 191-gram gold bar worth about $17,000—using acid baths, electrolysis, and pure mad-scientist vibes. Viral video alchemy ensued, with commenters begging to become apprentices in “SIM chip wizardry.” Reality check: it took industrial-scale scrap (not your drawer of old phones), deadly chemicals, and eco-hazards to pull it off. Still, who knew your expired SIM could fund a fancy dinner… if you collect 400,000 of them?
Blogger Refines 191 Grams of Gold Out of Electonic Waste, Including Thousands of SIM Cards
