No, that does not apply to gold. The cost to produce more gold is influenced by how much people have engaged in mining in the past, and thus extracted the low-cost gold. If everyone but you stopped mining gold, the cost for you, personally, to produce as much gold as was previously being produced would be approximately the same as the cost everyone shared before. If everyone but you stopped producing bitcoin, it would be much, much cheaper for you to produce just as much bitcoin as previously.
Gold is not bitcoin. There are differences obviously. But there are analogies too. For one the effort to mine a bitcoin intentionally rises by how much people have engaged in mining in the past.
I'm not clear what you are driving at.
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