Crypto was better when:

- it was basically illegal
- governments tried to kill it
- Bitcoin “died” every month
- normies laughed at anyone holding
- no presidents cosplaying as pro-crypto
- no politicians farming votes
- no “regulatory clarity” discourse
- no institutions front-running retail
- no ETFs smoothing the violence
- no macro calendars running the show
- scams pumped, and real tech pumped harder
- bad news = pump, worse news = giga pump
- nobody asked “is this priced in?”
- everyone was early, dumb, and loud

Now it’s:

“mature market”
“responsible adoption”
“wait for confirmation”
and a 2% move feels like we just cured cancer.

The funniest part? We wanted legitimacy.
Then we got it…
and it came with compliance, boredom, and the slow death of reflexivity.

Old crypto didn’t care about approval.

It existed to humiliate certainty.

Unhinged. Lawless. Disrespectful.
But alive.

Do you miss the chaos or are you glad we’re finally “growing up”?