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 Where have all the cypherpunks gone? 
 We all got content, lost fighting.  
 That’s hard to understand 
 Mr. Anderson could be your neighbor 😎 
 Off with the cowboys, perhaps?  
 After a decade of faiures to create a decentralized internet money, and then mathematical proof (late 90's as i recall) you couldn't solve the byzantine general problem, they lost the momentum and gave up. When Satoshi presented bitcoin and solved a slightly different version, they mostly remained negative. Sad to see.