The hype is more warranted here because I think material and physics scientists are excited and publicly and clearly skeptical. There is a wider knowledge that

The hype is more warranted here because I think material and physics scientists are excited and publicly and clearly skeptical. There is a wider knowledge that this may be nothing or somewhere in between. The rollercoaster following the developments is why the wider public is enjoying following it as science entertainment. On Twitter it seems like crypto bros are trying to scam with a LK-99 coin. AI/ML crowd is pondering what happens to computing power in 5-10-15 years if LK-99 is proven applicable to advance current technologies. There is a large mix of aspirational futurism and a lot of tempered real science going on here. All in real time, on active, Twitter, WeChat/Billibili(?) etc