Some of us are here for the money, some the technology, and some the way that technology will change the world as we know it. Maybe all of the above.

“The ugly, the fat, the old, and the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color blind anonymity on the new frontier of cyberspace.”

“In the Information Age, individuals will be able to use cybercurrencies and thus declare their monetary independence. When individuals can conduct their own monetary policies over the World Wide Web it will matter less or not at all that the state continues to control the printing press. Their importance for controlling the world’s wealth will be transcended by mathematical algorithms that have no physical existence. In the new millennium, cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede fiat money issued by governments.”

“In cyberspace the meek and the mighty will meet on equal terms”

“The state has grown used to treating its taxpayers as a farmer treats his cows, keeping them in a field to be milked. Soon the cows will have wings.”

This is from the book The Sovereign Individual written in 1997. It had incredible insight, but beyond that I think these are aspects of the crypto community often ignored/unnoticed. It’s not all about “going to the moon”, this is a revolutionary development in humankind, and we’re all here to witness and be apart of it.