U235 was meant to be used to accelerate society via free energy. It’s being held in the Earth instead, steadily decaying with time. It’s primary purpose as been destroyed.
The thing about U235 is that it has no such purpose. It is a tool that can be used in all kinds of ways. If humans were better, we could have power all of civilization in an age of abundance and peace, until unlocking a more portable fusion energy source than the sun. Unfortunately, most human beings lack that desire. It was used to blow people up instead, and brought us an age at least without large scale world war.
Crypto is being used in a greedy, speculative way. It doesn’t need to be. It could also run an entire world’s economy absent corrupt intermediaries. Fundamentally it will not change human nature, but it makes guarantees that anyone can verify. Which is desperately needed in a world of otherwise unaccountable money.
Just because people wield a tool poorly does not change the nature of the tool. These things have no emotions, they just exist. And bitcoin as a tool is an incredible invention. I just wish more people could appreciate it for what it is.
U235 is a physical element that exists (in small quantities) naturally, and a deliberate process was discovered to make more.
The universe had no "purpose" or "meaning" in mind for U235, because (philosophical discussions aside) the universe has no consciousness, agency, or intent.
Bitcoin was not discovered. It is entirely man-made, and its creators absolutely had purposes and meanings in mind for it when they created it.
There is no known process to make more U235. There is a process to refine U238 and extract primarily the U235 in concentrations sufficient for neutron chain reaction.
There is a process to create P238 via breeder reactors using U235, so could say “create” in that circumstance.
Bitcoin as a process can be considered “discovered”. The fundamental method doesn’t need any intention behind it — intention is irrelevant. It’s the first solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem. Any knowledge work involves discovery connected to the forces of nature.
Bitcoin is fundamentally bound to energy. It has a direct connection with energy, in that its value is derived from energy instead of the word of man.
The thing about U235 is that it has no such purpose. It is a tool that can be used in all kinds of ways. If humans were better, we could have power all of civilization in an age of abundance and peace, until unlocking a more portable fusion energy source than the sun. Unfortunately, most human beings lack that desire. It was used to blow people up instead, and brought us an age at least without large scale world war.
Crypto is being used in a greedy, speculative way. It doesn’t need to be. It could also run an entire world’s economy absent corrupt intermediaries. Fundamentally it will not change human nature, but it makes guarantees that anyone can verify. Which is desperately needed in a world of otherwise unaccountable money.
Just because people wield a tool poorly does not change the nature of the tool. These things have no emotions, they just exist. And bitcoin as a tool is an incredible invention. I just wish more people could appreciate it for what it is.