No one would have predicted in 2009 that Twitter would become more important than the New York Times. If you publicly said that, people would have mocked you. The level headed pragmatists would have written you off as a pie in the sky loony. That’s where we are at with crypto today. It’s taken longer than we thought to achieve some of crypto’s loftier promises, so people adjusted their expectations town. The irony is that we are right on the cusp of winning. Within five years, some companies will launch tokens over listing on the Nasdaq. CEX and DEX volumes will rival, if not overtake, the NYSE. Vast swaths of corporate and government infrastructure will be brought onchain. Trillions of dollars of real world assets will migrate onchain. The supercycle is here, it’s just not what you thought it would look like.

It’s “trump is a grifter” (true) or “the Democrats are communists” (true) but never “maybe a third additional reason clarity failed is because crypto has done virtually nothing for the lives of the median American, the notion that this is a grassroots movement is entirely fabricated, at least greatly exaggerated, evidenced by last election cycle’s biggest donor class being able to get their people elected with money but when it came time to vote on a comparatively tame piece of legislation there was just no demand, no outraged constituents begging to tokenize helocs, no wine aunts demanding to speak with their rep about how perps should be classified, that’s just not a real person that exists in our society, we have Venmo and we have many ways to gamble already. It’s mainly just suits versus suits and whatever outcome, most people will be just fine, moisturized, in their lane etc etc. Americans do call their senators about data centers and abortion but they just don’t call their senators about crypto because it’s not very important one way or another, this is not even occupy Wall Street, flip a coin, they don’t really care and so senators decided the cost of voting for something people are apathetic about was greater than the cost of voting against something people are apathetic about. Almost no introspection on this

This is an utterly inhuman outlook. Why should we care about excellence and discovery detached from human effort and striving? We don't have to let ourselves be made obsolete. We need to really against this cold, hateful worldview and stop AI in its tracks.