I'm curious (but not really qualified to understand) if the theoretical calculations on viable superconducting structures was a new insight on its own.
If there is a theoretical model for ambient temperature superconductivity, then that should help us zoom in on potential materials that could be an actual superconductor someday?
It's 100% deregulated finance and even if regulators want to regulate it, they basically can't because unlike regulators, crypto is global.
All the activities that regulators are designed to prevent are very successful in the crypto world.
I don't think crypto will fail or go bust; but I do think retail investors are completely abandoned by regulators who have a democratic mandate to protect them.
I suppose they don't want to be seen as stifling an innovative technology and politicians don't want to get blowback for efforts that would fail anyway.
Anyway, until we have global governance there will not be global regulation of the space so it will go on for many more decades.
You are forgetting the multi-millions of people that lost money on crypto so far. They are just written off as sore losers...
Confirmation bias plays a big role in the popularity of crypto, in unsettingly the same way as it does with people dreaming to become a famous soccer player... mostly through confirmation bias and very little value-add.
If there is a theoretical model for ambient temperature superconductivity, then that should help us zoom in on potential materials that could be an actual superconductor someday?