Article: Ghosts in the Machine

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# Ghosts in the Machine

## The Dawn of Defiance

There was a time, before ledgers and KYC, when cryptocurrency meant the possibility of rebellion against mocking banks, governments, and the hypocritical digital capitalists. Satoshi and the cypherpunks were not seeking career opportunities at regulated exchanges, instead they wanted to unsettle the order, build parallel paths, and disrupt. But as blockchain innovation collided with the brutal realities of for-profit and entrenched power, much of that early idealism was supply-chained, hogged, and monopolized. Open-source ideals took second place to custodial wallets, influencer marketing, and pumping, at the highest level of societies.

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