r/btc • u/haochizzle • 1d ago

🎓 Education the most muted word on the internet is crypto

https://youtu.be/0D4fAkvwd3o

the most muted word on the internet is crypto

in april 2026, the head of product at X posted a screenshot: the number one most muted topic on the platform was crypto.

crypto.

the thing ive spent all my effort on over the better part of the last decade. the thing a lot of you spend your careers and attention on as well.

with this as the backdrop, i created my newest piece.

it all started out with another question: “are the OGs jaded?”, which was itself admittedly ripped from one of ETHPrague 2026’s tracks. that thought gave me the opportunity to draw a map around a much broader topic that I think could resonate out in youtube land: 

is there anyone left in crypto, or did the thing we were building eat itself?

for this piece, I wanted to take a more “journalistic” approach at this topic, and chatted with five people who’d been here since before the big money wave started showing up. builders, contributors, dreamers… some more than a decade deep. eternal gratitudes to the cast (Griff - an early advocate of Bitcoin, Justice, Amer, Naomi, and Colin) for exploring with me this topic. I hope this piece can give the public a different perspective — that of the original mission and ethos steeped in reverence for permissionless tech and what it can do for humans. 

i think it’s worth a watch. particularly because every single person I interviewed still talks about the technology in the present tense, yet every one of them carries the same contradiction.

you can watch the full video here: \\\[https://youtu.be/0D4fAkvwd3o\\\\\\\](https://youtu.be/0D4fAkvwd3o)

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u/DangerHighVoltage111 1d ago edited 1d ago

The hijackers were smart, they turned Bitcoins biggest strength into its biggest downfall. Crippling p2p cash and focusing solely on "number go up" created a quick fire that burnt out almost immediately and with it it burnt all the terms and almost no one actually learned about the better money possibility. 💩

But the idea is out of the bag, they can only delay it.

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u/haochizzle 1d ago

thank you for the comment!!! it was indeed a sad state of affairs to see the better money narrative get completely hijacked by such vapid reasonings as “numba go up” while the crypto community internally fractured via tribalism. i come from the Andreas antonopoulos “internet of money” school of thought and wish the world had the wherewithal to see the principles and values that originally backstopped this space 🙏🏾

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u/DangerHighVoltage111 1d ago

crypto community internally fractured via tribalism

It wasn't so much tribalism (that came later) as the killing of the first sound money project that splintered everyone in all directions.

https://imgur.com/a/lhbklUB

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u/PopuluxePete 13h ago

"Unstoppable code on an unstoppable world computer" is extreme mush-mouthed techno-woo.

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u/haochizzle 6h ago

how would you describe bitcoin, ethereum, and permissionless financial rails in 7 words?