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It feels like Bitcoin has finally crossed the Rubicon into the mainstream both a triumph and a tragedy.

Walking around the conference this year, you could easily mistake it for a fintech summit or SaaS expo in Vegas. Same blazers, same VC pitch decks, same awkward networking energy. The suitcoiners outnumber the cypherpunks by 100:1.

On one hand, this is what we fought for: global legitimacy, serious capital, institutional attention.

On the other, something’s been lost in translation. The raw edge, the revolutionary energy, the sense that we were building something against the system not polishing it up to sell it back to the system.

Bitcoin doesn’t feel quite as dangerous anymore.

It feels… professional. Predictable. “Respectable,” even.

Maybe that’s just the mask Bitcoin wears while it continues hollowing out the old world from within.

Either way, the vibe has shifted.
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Juraj 7mo ago

Not all of us fought for legitimacy and mainstream adoption.

Original cryptoanarchists were a bit elitist, I think Timothy May would laugh at the suits.

But it is what it is, no need to be nostalgic. Bitcoin wins anyway

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Jac0 7mo ago

Satoshi will not be pleased if he is not write another white paper to prevent the power of government over reach to individuals . Create the new chain of new digital currency as alternatives .

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Juraj 7mo ago

Cryptoanarchy is a strategy to empower individuals. Bitcoin and other cypherpunk tech empowered the individual, do mission achieved. If it was excluding governments in any way, it would not be permissionless. So they'll be here, but so will be.