[lawrenceyan]

Ideological capture is something that any system inevitably faces once it becomes large enough. But the point is to evolve and grow, not stagnate on a fixed concept.

Personally, I think Solana does the best at balancing the original cypherpunk ethos while ultimately driving towards the future with crypto being the rails for natively programmatic global commerce.

[tromp]

There is no cypherpunk ethos in a 100% premine.

[lawrenceyan]

The FTX collapse of 2022 was a blessing disguised as a curse. All of the VCs and speculators offloaded their SOL during the bear market.

You have to remember that for about a year and a half, everyone thought Solana was dead / doomed to fail.