Cypherpunks (wether contemporaneous or OG) execute the separation of money and state through code.
The rest is theatre.
What I call cypherpunkism now is a fad for people who neither understand the machine nor the motive.
Cypherpunkistas fetishise rebellion but outsource competence.
Their tools are handles, hashtags, and conferences — not protocols.
To write efficient code is to act politically without posture.
To posture without code is to pollute the conversation.
The tragedy is that they’ve turned a discipline into a style, and a style into a noise that flatters impotence.
Bitcoin needed builders; it bred influencers.
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