How it started: We haven't decided yet on a CBDC

How it went: We have decided on a CBDC but we wont abuse it.

How it's going: We will abuse our CBDC and monitor your every move.

"That is what the cypherpunks were fighting against. And they finished the job with the culmination of Bitcoin finally"

Sorry but you are wrong, from the 1993 manifesto:

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age"

"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

"We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money."

"privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy."

"Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy."

"The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy"

Bitcoin is not anonymous, it's pseudonymous so it's not private, a Bitcoin's transaction is public, everyone can see it, the sender, the amount and the receiver, if you bough your Bitcoin with KYC, it's like doing a banking transfer except they actually can't stop the transaction to be, but they will eventually put you in jail.

Monero achieve that, not Bitcoin