I’m tired.

Everything I love about software: craft, care, community is being gutted.

AI slop PRs for airdrops. Fake activity to juice metrics for retro funding. DAO politics and governance favors. OSS reduced to a game of farming points and politics.

Crypto didn’t liberate anything. It just strapped a token to every soul and called it progress.

I vented to a friend. They said: "That’s not crypto. That’s money. Money corrupts everything it touches."

And yeah maybe that's the problem.

As time passes the case of a crypto critique becomes clearer and clearer. We need more criticism and self-reflection.

The direction is wrong.

Founder of @rotki 🐦, the portfolio tracker that protects your privacy.

#Berlin. University of Tokyo graduate. Marathon runner. #ethereum developer. #birding

it all started with alt-coins of the alt-coins, then shit-coins, then meme-coins. it was clear from the beginning that there was no use case for those coins. only speculation, thus corruption.

works for an oracle (dev / ops / memes) 
Currently in peace mode

Realizing I recontextualized the sentiment. If you mean you're seeing more contributions from people who don't have any coding experience, I'm all for that actually. F*** the bots though.

There's no magic in 99% of projects when they treat the decentralized *difficult* parts as optional, but really that's where inspiration comes from. There's nothing inspired in another money grab L2 or casino. 

That said lots of us wants to do it right! 

The principles still matter in 2025 if you know where to look.