And good riddance, it's perennial loser energy that holds people back from reaching their potential through misplaced vigilance... they never trusted the plan and have to cope now because it's working.

This kind of take can only come from someone that never appreciated the game theory Bitcoin brought to the arena.

Whether it was Palantir, or the NSA proper that created it, Bitcoin is Thielian doctrine:

The state does not fight Bitcoin because the state is made up of people, and Bitcoin is technological subjugation. A "network" state, as Balaji puts it, has replaced the hipster caricature of the state. The hackey sack circle counter-culture era of politics is dead and buried.

That's not to say there's not things to be vigilant or even terrified over. The sheer amount of leverage a Google, Microsoft, or a Palantir, have over the world technologically is far more of a risk than politics could ever be at this point... maaan.