Cypherpunks (wether contemporaneous or OG) execute the separation of money and state through code.

The rest is theatre.

What I call cypherpunkism now is a fad for people who neither understand the machine nor the motive.

Cypherpunkistas fetishise rebellion but outsource competence.

Their tools are handles, hashtags, and conferences — not protocols.

To write efficient code is to act politically without posture.

To posture without code is to pollute the conversation.

The tragedy is that they’ve turned a discipline into a style, and a style into a noise that flatters impotence.

Bitcoin needed builders; it bred influencers.