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That's a very optimistic view and I for one believe you

There is light at the end of the block subsidy.....

Actually that's a whole other problem 🤣🤣🤣

npub1zapsats

I hate the term bootlickers which is a euphemism for COCK SUCKERS

Bell_curve

"The internet" is more awesome today than it was back then....

I was a young adult when I first heard about this thing called "the internet" in 1989...and I agree with your assessment.

 miss from 90s internet was the culture. I don't even really like reading HN comments too much these days because it makes it too clear that the entire cyberpunk ethos is dead. Bootlicking pro-regulation pro-biggov compliant slaves replaced the edgy, cool, you-cant-stop-us 90s tech crowd.

Yet, in spite of that, I can still use encryption, I can still setup my own website, I can still communicate securely, etc....

I think there is probably a workable analogy of what will happen with Bitcoin. As the masses (and that includes Wall St) pours in, the culture will shift and the pro-bootlicker crowd will become ever more vocal, yet as long as the protocol nicely ossifies, you will still be able to use bitcoin in a "2013 approved way"

bitcoin

The paradox of maturity for Bitcoin

>"The internet" is more awesome today than it was back then....

I was a young adult when I first heard about this thing called "the internet" in 1989...and I agree with your assessment. 

The thing I *do* miss from 90s internet was the culture. I don't even really like reading HN comments too much these days because it makes it too clear that the entire cyberpunk ethos is dead. Bootlicking pro-regulation pro-biggov compliant slaves replaced the edgy, cool, you-cant-stop-us 90s tech crowd. 

Yet, in spite of that, I can still use encryption, I can still setup my own website, I can still communicate securely, etc....

I think there is probably a workable analogy of what will happen with Bitcoin. As the masses (and that includes Wall St) pours in, the culture will shift and the pro-bootlicker crowd will become ever more vocal, yet as long as the protocol nicely ossifies, you will still be able to use bitcoin in a "2013 approved way"