I'm not sure if this counts as a rage quit, but it might be. The article is mostly a bid for attention, but it's interesting as an artifact, nonetheless.
Mike Brock kinda lost it when Trump II happened, maybe even in the lead up. For a while he was one of the rare very liberal bitcoiners running around, and I enjoyed his takes because they gave me something to think about.
He is heavy on the polemic statements, light on details, but it's worth a read if you want to hear what a Bitcoiner who has given up sounds like.
I'd feel better about dismissing his frustration if it weren't for meager adoption of self-custody, people worried about jpegs in the blockchain, and a culture dominated by treasury company CEOs who post shit ai-pictures of themselves.
But here’s the trick: if you build systems premised on the assumption that everyone is your enemy, you create the very conditions where everyone becomes your enemy. The prophecy fulfills itself. Trust becomes impossible not because humans are inherently untrustworthy, but because you’ve built an architecture that punishes trust and rewards defection. And then you point to the wreckage and say, “See? I told you humans can’t cooperate. Good thing we have Bitcoin.”This is Austrian economics. The fever dream that animated Mises and Rothbard, that Ron Paul spread like gospel, that the crypto faithful have absorbed as metaphysical truth. The claim that inflation is theft, that fiat currency is government tyranny, that “hard money” restores natural order, that the market—if just left alone—would produce spontaneous harmony.
