Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Folks here are helping me narrow down what I don’t like about crypto. I see the argument that it is a way to freely move currency even in the face of authoritarian governments. I guess on the one hand, I just don’t believe that governments can’t find a way to crack down on it. All the crying from crypto folks about the tyrannical SEC suggests governments still do matter. But more importantly, I think it’s a much better use of time and energy to organize and fight to stop those authoritarian governments from existing in the first place. I see so many brilliant people spending so much time on this thing that is literally separate from reality (it’s right there in the name crypto) when that energy could be put to more fruitful use. Anyway, no final conclusions, just some evolving thoughts.
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
The problem is that the word "crypto" is overloaded to mean different things to different people. When I say "crypto": I mean cypherpunk agorism. Others hear: US crypto industry including Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, A16Z etc. Coinbase is a US exchange that pays US taxes and can be destroyed by US laws. Tornado Cash is noncustodial privacy software running on Ethereum. FinCEN put TC on the sanctioned entities list...guess what happened? Not a single Ethereum transaction broadcast to the network was censored. Then we won in court because privacy is a human right guaranteed by our constitution. That's real cypherpunk crypto.
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Catch0x22 (2025 variant)
@catch0x22.eth
crypto. not web3.
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