I’m living a nice and wholesome life I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore The user experience sucks compared to fintech All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling So who remains to defend the principles of the early days? Who will still want to end the Fed when the Fed is making you more US dollars? I don’t even see my friends around anymore, they either turned into insufferable suits or else they left the space It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel) I feel sorry for some of the people I onboarded, who used custodial Lightning wallets that probably rugged them I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement But ultimately, I wish more bitcoiners demanded a change. Anything that lets developers build cool stuff and new use cases. CTV, CAT, BIP300, I don’t even care at this point. Just push the boundaries, make Bitcoin technologically exciting again. The bankers might fuck us, the old cypherpunks might sell out, but at least give the rest of us some cool toys to play with. But no, “there’s no consensus” Fuxking bullshit