Ethereum used to be a bunch of cyberpunk misfits making uncensorable compute.

How did we get here?

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We have to continue to see it as weird. Making Ethereum useful to the lowest common user, safe for everyone. Keeping Ether tethered to Ethereum in ways that reduce centralization- I think block building is the last frontier but maybe that’ll be taken care of by ZK.

Ether needs dollar value to survive. Bitcoin made a similar deal but they were corrupted instantly. Ethereum has to do it better.

agreed. And I think they're complementary goals. Stablecoins and institutions pick ETH because it's censorship resistant and credibly neutral with a huge community around it. Just weird to see the consequences of it playing out.

We have to keep the cypher punk values at the core. They’ve been largely built and as along as @ethereum isn’t corrupted at the foundation and we keep building for decentralized infrastructure we are good.

Personally, I think we are the most censorship resistant chain in existence and it’s not gonna stop until price gets unbearably high. We are far from that. I could expect ether at 2 trillion market cap could begin to corrupt us.

true. just feels weird how we got here. same as it ever was.

Defi. Ethereum. Physics.

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I mean, the cypherpunks were wrong. The Extropians were the one's that recognized that as technology becomes more complex, you need global corporations to produce the high quality products that people demand. All these "cypherpunks" in crypto are buying macbooks and iPhones, and can't even be bothered to make the marginal change to use even Linux.

We don't see corporations using open ledger global financial data ledgers as bad at all. It's not only better for society, even if it's silo'd, but expected.

Scaling. There's only so much money in misfits and we saturated that market.

Oligarchy world will corrupt, co-opt or destroy anything that threatens it's power centralization. Punks will always have to keep going two steps ahead.

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This farcaster platform is full of the EXACT opposite

cypherpunk misfits need exit liquidity too 🥹