You wanted to opt out, they want to make that illegal.
Crypto was supposed to route around censorship. Peer-to-peer money without middlemen. A parallel system for those who refused to play by rules written in marble halls where nobody elected enters.
That was the promise - code as liberation, math as sovereignty, cryptography as the final defense against institutional control.
Thirty-two years after Eric Hughes wrote "Cypherpunks write code," we're not building the alternative anymore. We're building the cage.
The same protocols designed to eliminate trusted third parties may soon require biometric verification.
Smart contracts that were meant to execute without permission could check your government papers first.
Many DeFi platforms are racing to prove they're compliant, institutional-grade, and ready to integrate with the very systems crypto was supposed to make obsolete.
September 2025 showed us two possible futures.
Nepal's government banned social media - Gen Z burned politicians' homes and the prime minister resigned soon after.
Vietnam froze 86 million bank accounts for lacking biometric data - it’s been mostly crickets since then.
No uprising. Just silent coercion and a population that learned compliance tastes like convenience until the gate locks behind you.
The walls aren't closing in - they're already being built. We just haven't noticed we're inside yet.
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