2025-10-30
The Best Days are Ahead of Us
- Crypto's manic price cycles are noise; the macro of adoption, technology, and decentralization improves every year.
- The industry exists because the old institutions are failing, and it answers whether you can feel safe and own your money.
- Nation states are adopting it, half a billion people hold it heading to a billion, and augmented reality will need this control layer.
- Cardano going from federated to fully decentralized governance in a year proves people can self govern.
- Amid depression, China, and AI risks, crypto is the last great harbor of human rights, so keep the faith.
27 entries
Frames the video on the mission and vision, saying that despite Solana versus Ethereum versus Cardano competition, the best days are ahead.
Recounts Bitcoin's boom bust cycles from a dollar to 30 to 4 to 250, showing the market's manic swings.
Continues the cycle history through 2017's 20000, 2021's 68000, and 100000, mocking the obsession with price.
After Luna and FTX declared crypto dead it still went over 100000, since price tracks long term usage as a deflationary asset.
Asks the fundamental questions: is the world healthy, is your job secure, will your money hold value, do you feel safe.
Crypto exists to start a conversation about doing things differently so you can feel safe and hopeful about tomorrow.
Recalls ADA at three cents, down from 1.28, saying short term it is a tragedy but long term it is about progress.
Nation states can run crypto: Javier Milei's reelection gives Argentina a better than even chance to run on blockchain by 2030.
Half a billion people hold crypto, more than the whole world's 18th century population, heading to a billion in 3 to 5 years.
Contrasts today's zero knowledge and DeFi revolution with the early days of Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Feathercoin toys.
Being in crypto means you believe you deserve to be your own bank, own your identity, and hold money that gains value.
Markets have winners and losers but the macro of crypto improves daily: more adoption, better tech, more decentralization.
Warns asset backed stablecoins are not cryptocurrencies since their value comes from the promises of centralized companies.
Reflects on time off in Switzerland and Milan, realizing he is happiest building this future rather than retiring to a ranch.
Wants a 2050 world where every nation, company, and transaction runs on a blockchain that protects rights, a world of consent not a panopticon.
Crypto decides how people live amid AI, collapsing fiat, and great power war, and augmented reality will give everything a digital twin.
Lists victories: turning the US from adversary to ally, scaling tech for billions, and tokenizing trillions, urging calm in the storm.
Compares the coming upheaval to the industrial revolution and World War II's clash of communism, fascism, and democracy.
Warns of non zero probabilities of a great depression, war with China, and the loss of democracy this decade.
Asks whether, given the chance to rebuild the dollar and voting systems, society would copy the Federal Reserve or build it differently.
Points to Cardano transitioning from federated to fully decentralized governance in a year as proof people can self govern.
His optimistic view is that if you trust people with real power and agency, they rise to the occasion despite mistakes.
Admits a hard year of compromise, saying certain people should not have issued currencies, but that does not end the revolution.
The work continues with privacy and selective disclosure now, an endless but meaningful river where the philosophy of liberty endures.
Predicts that in five years nation states run on this and crypto's economy exceeds most nations, the last great harbor of human rights.
Gives kudos to Solana, Avalanche, Bitcoin, and Vitalik's Ethereum, saying 20000 ecosystems united are unstoppable.
Closes that market blips are entirely forgettable and urges everyone to keep the faith.