Yes. In 2019 I was very transparent at Beefsteak and Nik's carnivory dinner: I understand that bitcoiners have all the real wealth in the world and will be interested in sincere pursuits, that I came to understand bitcoin through the pursuit of a great, civilization-scale engineering project (succeeded) that was greatly slowed due to fiat foolishness, and that I wanted them to know that I knew then.

As I have gotten older, the idea of waiting to begun the real work pains me. After the lockdowns and lackluster response, I wonder how protracted adoption might be, and at the same time, I must confront my looming mortality.

There are objective truths to great works and that which must be done will happen regardless, though it does bring me some sadness I might not be able to be in the thick of it the way I was when we were first building this technology I allude to, blissfully unaware of the evil forces that lay in wait to stymy our work.

Billionaires today are mostly a rather pitiful, impotent, desperate, and aimless group.