Just want to counter some of the negativity here to say I enjoyed the article and agree with many of the points. Bitcoin is a difficult subject for a lot of hackers to get right because when you're deeply embedded in the tech stack it can be difficult to remember humans are part of the software. Our emotions are part of the network.

The purest metric for Bitcoins decline can be found in the hundreds of spiteful, insulting, censoring, excluding conversations that are replacing the hope and optimistic tinkering that started it all.