This says on multiple browsers „failed to verify browser“

It‘s a Vercel site

ok from my side https://daimo.com/blog/real-world-ethereum

Now it works again. Must have been a temporary Vercel error

I agree with this article that the risk of capture is real. If you think of cypherpunk ideas as Cattelan’s banana, you can imagine the day crypto has gained mass adoption and it’s just convenient low fees digital money and the original cypherpunk ideas are going to be sold back to us as a meme.

Self custody and decentralization takes effort and real change, it requires personal responsibility. It is in the way of capitalist relentless push for efficiency and low costs, which naturally leads to more convenient solutions for consumers.

As we all know very well, since that’s what started cypherpunk, this pursuit of convenience and efficiency isn't always beneficial, as it can come at the cost of other important values.

Since the system's reach is nearly total and basic survival often requires participation alternative systems are difficult to imagine. Real resistance often faces actual consequences and digital technology makes opting out increasingly difficult.

Maybe a perfect escape from the system might be impossible but partial resistance is valuable. To see cypherpunk as an ongoing process of critical engagement and building parallel systems while acknowledging their imperfection. Focus on harm reduction rather than purity. The goal might not be to escape entirely, but to create enough distance to imagine different possibilities while acknowledging our own entanglement in the system.

A way could be building community in order to create spaces of temporary autonomy where cypherpunk values could be preserved and to develop new forms and structures that resist easy commodification. In order to do that you might have to move beyond market logic, competition and individual success. Embrace the non-narrative rather than the story. Because I think it is exactly at that point - the “storytelling” - where capture happens.

To make a long “story” lol short, how to escape capitalist capture paradox that ultimately every critique of the system operates within and reinforces the very value system it seems to critique?

Yeah I agree with Tim on harm reduction. I'm not saying perfection

Just offering people options is a good way to get their feet wet in many types of freedom

errr sorry mish. Thought it was tim at the top replying