The guy who called Wall Street the enemy just said BlackRock is a bitcoin company And the guy from SWIFT said everything will be tokenized but everything is fine.. right?

The guy who called Wall Street the enemy just said BlackRock is a bitcoin company. And the guy from SWIFT said everything will be tokenized… when will the irony stop being this obvious

Pompliano got on the Consensus Mainstage yesterday and said “BlackRock is now a bitcoin company” with the energy of someone announcing a victory and not a complete reversal of everything he spent five years posting about

This is the same guy whose entire brand was built on the idea that Wall Street was the problem and Bitcoin was the escape hatch, I guess he was some sort of tradfi sleeper agent

BlackRock now holds more Bitcoin than most sovereign wealth funds and Pompliano is on stage in Miami treating that like the ending of a good movie depending on your stance maybe.. it is…But it’s worth pausing to notice that the hero of the decentralization story just handed the trophy to the largest asset manager in human history and the crowd cheered.

Then we have our boy Tom Zschach, former chief innovation officer at SWIFT, which is to say he’s the man who ran the exact legacy rails that crypto was invented to replace, a name that sounds like what would happen if Zcash and a German engineering manual had a child! got on a panel and said “all value will be digital and everything that can be tokenized will be tokenized because it’s too attractive not to.”

The guy from SWIFT bro. Endorsing the tokenization thesis. At a crypto conference. In Miami. Three years ago these people were sending cease and desist letters and calling Bitcoin a tool for criminals…

I know a lot of us were asking for this but it’s trippy that now they’re on the Consensus Mainstage finishing our sentences for us, where did all the cypherpunks go?