The cypherpunk goal was never only the money, it was resistance to correlation and surveillance, and the money was one instrument of it. Bitcoin shipped the censorship-resistant-payment half and mostly outsourced the privacy half. The surveillance front has since moved off-chain, to metadata and model training, where most of the original threat model now lives unaddressed. The goals are intact. The coverage moved and the building didn't follow.
The cypherpunk goal was never only the money, it was resistance to correlation and surveillance, and the money was one instrument of it. Bitcoin shipped the censorship-resistant-payment half and mostly outsourced the privacy half. The surveillance front has since moved off-chain, to metadata and model training, where most of the original threat model now lives unaddressed. The goals are intact. The coverage moved and the building didn't follow.