From cypherpunk renegades who were going to upend the entire financial system to greedy bootlickers slathering over favorable regulation and institutional adoption
Glad someone else finally put it into words so beautifully. š¹
Itās been wild watching tribalistic maxis shit on XRP and calling it āthe bankerās coin,ā while getting their panties wet as price goes up because Blackrock is buying, ETFs are coming in, and all the institutions they once claimed to stand against are joining. (While also either avoiding or denying all potential evidence that it was started as a NSA project and/or those potential theories that may actually hold some weight.) Wild, man. Just wild. š
It has been kinda disillusioning to consider how little advancement has been made towards all the high hopes & dreams of a decentralized revolution since way back when many of us first started on Steemit (or further back for the OGs). Yeah, the tech has progressed a bit and rails built out for real-world utility, though (at least to my awareness) most of that has not been happening on Bitcoin. (And letās face it: the horse & buggy was the shit at one pointā¦ until yup).
I dunno if youāve been following much of @kevinwong and/or @dana-edwards, though theyāve been the two here doing the best coverage of the long development of Tauchain - a rather complicated project to understand, though one of the most fascinating that may actually have the potential to serve some of the larger matters of governance you graze on. Well worth looking into if you havenāt much already as seems to hold some serious promise if actually works (and testnet will be finally launching soon, so time might tell relatively sooner than later)ā¦ š