Worth considering in light of Vitalik’s recent essay “Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again” which addresses how blockchains lost their original cypherpunk roots to financialization and the accompanying statist interventions.
Research FreeRossDAO or UkraineDAO.
Literally changing the world and saving lives with the tech you can't imagine being punk.
Cope.
Don't get me wrong, that's great, but what exactly are we saying here? Fundraising for a good cause is all that is needed to make something punk? Are church collection plates also punk?
Technology stripped to just the essentials necessary to further the ethos seems pretty punk to me.
Punk movements seem to have always suffered from this sort of unacknowledged lack of unified or organized abilities.
And their aversion to the mainstream and anarchic tendencies often leave them and their goals in absolute limbo.
Punk rock at least had the benefit of "if you can listen and agree, you're in" though. To be remotely included in cypher/cyberpunk practically requires an education of some kind, especially in the post-"mobile OS is all I need" world.
Berlin has changed so much since then. It was a divided, post-apocalyptic city, “occupied” by two foreign powers. Lots of soldiers, draft-dogers, musicians, communists, and ex-Nazis.
Now it’s a pretty boring capital city, just like Bonn was back in the day.
I’m glad to see it’s still doing cyberpunk type stuff, like having bitcoin markets.