You're not waiting on crypto to be free. Crypto can't set you free because the extant equity holders won't let it. They're not gonna let what is basically a video game destroy their power.
You're free right now if you refuse to capitulate to oppression. I do not recommend doing so, because slavers make offers you can't refuse. However, you can do so in limited degree. The other day I built a shed in exchange for a leather belt.
Good luck taxing that transaction. Sadly, I was coerced into the deal, because if I had not agreed to build it, I'd have suffered the disappointment of my neighbor. If you knew my neighbor, you'd be right that I would have built the shed for free just to avoid the misery disappointing her would have brought me.
Crypto is not setting anyone free. Only you can do that for you, and I for me. Beyond that, no one can really be free. Galt's Gulch doesn't exist.