This is what Bitcoin culture has become. Not tools for economic freedom. Not permissionless markets. Just gatekeeping disguised as inevitability.

The promise was financial sovereignty for everyone. The reality is celebrating pricing people out. Measuring success by exclusion. "Be your own bank" became "fuck you, got mine"

They don't want more people to have economic freedom. They want the right people to have it—at the right price, with the right politics.

This is authoritarian thinking wrapped in libertarian aesthetics. Deciding who "deserves" access based on ideological purity.

Bitcoin culture doesn't want revolution. It wants a new aristocracy where they're the aristocrats.

And they call this freedom.