I need help recreating this exact Opal shader with the blinking effect

Some people come kinda close, but you’re right, I haven’t seen this effect recreated. I don’t think it’s a shader (or not a shader alone) as the originator claimed in 2013, but a bunch of reflecting faces modeled inside of an object with a “milky” shader.

I did a crude version a few years ago (posted with the blend file), linked in one of the links above, but here it is again.