Crypto was more fun when it was about tearing down the establishment not bowing to the emperor

"Something that arises at the inception of most media, even before they come about, is this whole utopian drip about it. And the utopianism often wears down under corporate pressure after a while, and it's important if you're going to maintain the politics of it, it can't be sort of drained off. It is beginning to look more and more like the internet is going to almost certainly become totally privatized, and it's probably, its days may be are numbered, maybe it is so decentralized, and maybe there will be no way to ever effectively privatize the whole thing."

Agreed, but this pivot was inevitable as it has been for every other movement with a utopian vision. 
The hippies became yuppies and boomers became doomers. The anti establishment eventually becomes the establishment and the cycle continues. As @cassie has pointed out, unless you make your vision programatically impossible for it to be co-opted by such interests, it will eventually will succumb to the same fate.

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Agreed, but this pivot was inevitable as it has been for every other movement with a utopian vision. 
The hippies became yuppies and boomers became doomers. The anti establishment eventually becomes the establishment and the cycle continues. As @cassie has pointed out, unless you make your vision programatically impossible for it to be co-opted by such interests, it will eventually will succumb to the same fate. 
https://warpcast.com/adam-/0xfd2cdbbd

Lets name some names, despite the potato quality here. I see Armstrong and Saylor.

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
― Utah Phillips (maybe)

Dogecoin was way more fun when people weren't sweaty about making money from daddy's pump. A lot of the community is outright fascist now when they used to fund fun and underserved projects.

Until the space rallies around ETH nothing matters anymore

government still can't control btc or eth etc.

Facts. Decentralization was supposed to be the revolution, not just a new version of the old system.

In fact, the vast majority of people still worship power.

damn this gave me chills. Kinda the opposite of being a cypherpunk sitting in a suit in the white house.

What the fuck is that image. Yuck. 🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️