Topic: Bitcoin in 2019: Are we still libertarians, cypherpunks, and crypto-anarchists? - page 2. (Read 302 times)
June 12, 2019, 02:57:35 AM
Maybe we lost something, but we definitely acquired something. What would be the meaning of Bitcoin and all the efforts of its creators if almost nobody knew about it as before? What then would be the meaning of its creation? It seems to me that Bitcoin was created for all people and for the sake of justice. So that we do not depend on corruption and the machinations of the elite, and everyone has equal rights and opportunities.
June 12, 2019, 02:10:37 AM
It's been 10 years, we talk a lot about BTC, but we can't define mainstream BTC. We are still very far from the mainstream.
Whatever we have become is not depended on by the mainstream.
We still have a long way to go to make BTC mainstream.
My twu cents
Whatever we have become is not depended on by the mainstream.
We still have a long way to go to make BTC mainstream.
My twu cents
June 12, 2019, 01:50:49 AM
In 2009, much of the cryptocurrency community was composed of libertarians, cypherpunks, and crypto-anarchists. They tended to be anti-authoritarian and distrustful of existing financial, economic, and political institutions. It's very likely that Satoshi Nakamoto himself had such beliefs.
It's been 10 years since and a lot has changed in the meantime. Now we live in a world where everyone recognizes the word "Bitcoin". In fact, the phrase "buy bitcoin" was one of the most searched terms of 2017.
In light of such developments, do you think this is still the case today? Are we still a group of anti-establishment hacker types like Hal Finney and Nick Szabo who can trace their roots to the original cypherpunk communities of the 80s and 90s? Or has the inclusion of other groups such as social democrats, neoliberals, conservatives, and the alt-right diluted the original intentions behind Bitcoin?
In other words, did we lose our ideology by going mainstream?
It's been 10 years since and a lot has changed in the meantime. Now we live in a world where everyone recognizes the word "Bitcoin". In fact, the phrase "buy bitcoin" was one of the most searched terms of 2017.
In light of such developments, do you think this is still the case today? Are we still a group of anti-establishment hacker types like Hal Finney and Nick Szabo who can trace their roots to the original cypherpunk communities of the 80s and 90s? Or has the inclusion of other groups such as social democrats, neoliberals, conservatives, and the alt-right diluted the original intentions behind Bitcoin?
In other words, did we lose our ideology by going mainstream?
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