For crypto fans who came of age during earlier eras — back when Bitcoin was going to bank the unbanked and stop all wars, or even during the ICO boom when tokenizing carbon credits and disrupting dentistry were touted as the future of finance — the last couple of years have been incredibly depressing.
On the one side, some Bitcoiners who used to want to smash the unfair financial and banking system now cheer the world’s biggest banks and governments for gobbling up an increasing percentage of the supply.
And on the other side, there’s the financial nihilism of memecoin trading, where nothing of value is built or created — just a production…
Apr 05 2025
