In my experience, it's easy to have tight ideology and principles and moral purity until you have to make something actually work in the real world with other humans. Once that happens, all those crisp ideals get squashed into a grey muck, or else the people nobly hurtle into irrelevancy or the grave.

I don't think I'm overstating it to say that btc existing at this point, at all, is a miracle. We'll see how miraculous it remains.