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https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/01/04/its-back-researchers-say-theyve-replicated-lk-99-room-temperature-superconductor-experiment/
If I wanted to bet that some variation of (refrigerated-room) temperature Super Conductors will be available in the next ten years, what would I invest in?
What use are super conductors? If they are used in computing and they'll drop the price of computation then Bitcoin or other computation limited cryptocurrencies could be a good idea.
It depends on the kind of superconductor, particularly material properties.
Ideally it should be malleable and ductile, and I don't think LK-99 is that, so making wiring might be iffy.
There are heaps of other factors, such as maximum temperature for superconductivity (claimed to be very high by SC standards, as in an ice cream freezer works, you don't need liquid nitrogen or helium)*, the maximum amount of current it can carry, the amount of magnetic flux it can tolerate and so on.
In terms of computing, from what I heard speculated, LK-99 is probably not that useful, and besides, in Bitcoin the amount of energy needed to mine a single coin will increase as you make more, so it won't help.
*The Chinese replications claim it's still not quite room temperature, unless you live in Siberia I guess. Still an enormous big if true.
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