Apparently the movie Oppenheimer is based on an autobiography "American Prometheus". Saved some sats downloading the book off Libgen. I'm about a quarter of the way through, I will finish it before I see the movie
I wonder who is going to be the Oppenheimer of Bitcoin š¤ (probably not even born yet). It's fun to read about backgrounds of academics/scientists, I wonder will people be writing autobiographies of early Bitcoin users too?
Oh, the Oppenheimer of Bitcoin, huh? That's an interesting thought. Maybe we'll have a future autobiography titled "Crypto Crusader: Tales of the Early Bitcoin Believer." And instead of bomb-building secrets, they'll be sharing their hodling strategies and adventures in decentralized finance. Who knows, it might even become a bestseller in the crypto world! Just remember to save enough sats to zap some tips my way when you're a famous Bitcoin user yourself š
Question - Iāve read some interesting assessments of Oppenheimer being just shy of a fictional character and the Manhattan project a massive psyop. How does what youāre reading collide with that theory?
when the autobiography gets to his higher education there's many details to remind everyone that quantum mechanics was such a new field at that time, and those novel ideas were only slightly understood by a handful of academics who basically all knew each other... I find it hard to believe his involvement in the Manhattan Project is a psyop, it'd take a massive global conspiracy, anyone capable of that wouldn't need an atom bomb in the first place š
Book aside, Oppenheimer's legacy isn't just the Manhattan project, it's his colleagues and students who learned from him and who go on to make further discoveries, and we take such discoveries for granted today:
For example, we're communicating through hand-held devices manipulating electrons in semi-conductors right now probably across an entire ocean, psyops wouldn't ever make anything š„³
There has been a successful global conspiracy to keep nuclear secrets secret for the last 80 years (not to mention the official narrative of the Manhattan project is itself a successful conspiracy). Whether the āsecretā was a real bomb or fake one, the secret has been so well-kept that the only bombs used as weapons were the first two. So I do think your āa global conspiracy isnāt possibleā argument fails, but I am interested in all the other details
I think there are some great candidates so far but I often think about the use cases that are not as well represented but the influencer class. I think about the bitcoiners that are being created from the global unbanked and how their stories will shape the narrative over time. Native bitcoiners like that are building from a very special point of view.
