“We could not even imagine in our wildest dreams that we would arrive at the current moment.”

We could, but we didn't want to. For us cypherpunks, this was more like a nightmare than a dream. We actively tried NOT to dream about this.

“We had crampy slow mixmasters, command line encryption that no one used, fiat in envelopes and later centralized electronic gold custodians.”

The performance of mixmasters can be improved, GUI can be developed, fiat in envelopes can be replaced by gift card codes (though there is nothing wrong with fiat in envelopes), and centralized gold custodians can be avoided. All that can be done WITHOUT kissing the government's ass.

“but also these corrupted services did not exist at all in the before times”

Yes, that's what makes those old times better.

“Do we have more options or less? Definitely more.”

Not really. If you are a cypherpunk, you won't count privacy invasive, KYC mandatory solutions as "options".

The existence of options that do more harm than good is not something to celebrate.

“Pissed about grandmas with ETFs?”

Yes.

“Even if you remove them, we are more than 1000x of what anyone expected.”

No we aren't. What we expected was far more glorious than people giving their money to Black Rock so that Black Rock (not the people) can hold more Bitcoin while those people hold neither the fiat money they had nor the Bitcoin that fiat money could have bought them. All they hold is a debt issued by Black Rock. Just a promise on paper, enforced by human convention.

“We thought we are going to be fringe like the 0.001% PGP users.”

That would have been the more favorable outcome. Quality over quantity.

“We don't need everyone to be cypherpunk.”

Yes we do. There is no other way to take our freedom back.

I never expected perfection, but @RepThomasMassie is the greatest living American politician.

If you attack him, I side with him.

Technology Stocks Today:

1. MicroStrategy, $MSTR: -14%

2. Tesla, $TSLA: -8%

3. Palantir, $PLTR: -7%

4. Alphabet, $GOOGL: -5%

5. Broadcom, $AVGO: -5%

6. Meta, $META: -4%

7. Nvidia, $NVDA: -4%

8. Amazon, $AMZN: -3%

9. Netflix, $NFLX: -3%

10. Microsoft, $MSFT: -2%

Magnificent 7 stocks have now erased over $3 TRILLION in market cap from their recent all time highs.

Sentiment has shifted from Extreme Greed to Extreme Fear.

Big tech IS the stock market.

Trump is considering banking sanctions on Russia.

Never forget

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇺🇦 President Trump halts all military aid to Ukraine.

JUST IN: 🇸🇻 El Salvador bought the bitcoin dip again today and added to their strategic reserve.

BREAKING: The FBI NY appears to have GONE ROGUE

AG Letter says FBI NY Is WITHHOLDING Critical Epstein Documents

This after reports that the FBI was secretly destroying Epstein documents

WTF IS HAPPENING

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: EPSTEIN—FBI INFORMANT CONFIRMED

Newly released Epstein Files reveal that Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just connected to intelligence—he was an FBI informant.

Documents show he provided information to the bureau while under prosecution in Florida.

Source: @amuse

I think we’re going to see millions more bitcoin burned post-hyperbitcoinization as whales realize they can’t possibly allocate all that capital, that much money wouldn’t be healthy for their kids to inherit, and burning coins will “lift the boats” of their fellow bitcoiners. Saylor, for example.

The mempool clearing isn’t a good or a bad thing. It just “is”. People fear mongering and trying to cast current or past mempool states onto the future (whether it’s completely flooded or completely empty) are short sighted.

Usage will ebb and flow and so too will mempools.