the most muted word on the internet is crypto

in april 2026, the head of product at X posted a screenshot: the number one most muted topic on the platform was crypto.

crypto.

the thing ive spent all my effort on over the better part of the last decade. the thing a lot of you spend your careers and attention on as well.

with this as the backdrop, i created my newest piece.

it all started out with another question: “are the OGs jaded?”, which was itself admittedly ripped from one of ETHPrague 2026’s tracks. that thought gave me the opportunity to draw a map around a much broader topic that I think could resonate out in youtube land:

is there anyone left in crypto, or did the thing we were building eat itself?

for this piece, I wanted to take a more “journalistic” approach at this topic, and chatted with five people who’d been here since before the big money wave started showing up. builders, contributors, dreamers… some more than a decade deep. eternal gratitudes to the cast (Griff, Justice, Amer, Naomi, and Colin) for exploring with me this topic. I hope this piece can give the public a different perspective — that of the original mission and ethos steeped in reverence for permissionless tech and what it can do for humans.

i think it’s worth a watch. particularly because every single person I interviewed still talks about the technology in the present tense, yet every one of them carries the same contradiction.

you can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/0D4fAkvwd3o

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