Fair point. The progress is undeniable, but isn’t nostalgia also a signal? Maybe not of wanting to ‘go back,’ but of something missing in the present. More options, sure—but are we still pushing the frontier, or just optimizing what already exists? The cypherpunk ethos wasn’t just about tech, but about relentless subversion. Are we still subversive enough? Hi juraj 😉🧡💜🏴‍☠️

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Hard to argue with @Juraj, it is basically a protopia: some things better, some things not like we wished. But we must not root out this nostalgic vibe to keep ourselves in check. I very much appreciate conservative, history-conscious approach. Who will ground the kumbaya crowds in order to continuously recalibrate all legs of the movement. The punks. Repsect those voices.
What do you miss in the present? Counterculture is always captured and packaged, you can buy punk T-shirts in mainstream brand stores for ten bucks now. I think the main point to understand is that the masses will never want what we want, need and do build. They will oppose it. Even though they'll say they want the good parts. The existence of that ten bucks punk T-shirt does not mean there are real punks out there. Even within the Bitcoin ecosystem we'll be a tiny fraction. But still we're bigger and better than old times.