I guess I started an accidental AMA on which parts of the crypto space are good and which I'm so far not excited about, along with other big picture vision questions:

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827583576751181961

You should feel free to ask questions here too! Let's see if Farcaster can come up with higher-quality questions than the other app :)

crypto is getting adopted the US via democratic process (ie voters vote for crypto-friendly candidate, rule of law win over corrupt regulators).

how do u see crypto get adopted in authoritarian countries that have a facade of democracy, but actually have ruling, military-backed elites (who have a history of censorship and value extraction) ? 

two paths:

1. boil the frog: crypto adoption happens slowly. elites are good at rent extraction.

2. resistance: a group of young dissidents w combo of railgun + private-tooling for DAOs to organize undetected. 

in the country i'm thinking of, over the past century the score is basically:

military: 100
young-dissident: 0 

any other plausible ways this plays out?