How to get there from here.Is this the long dark night of the cypherpunks soul? I would argue that its the cliche darkests hour before the dawn.The alphabet police soup are on us like a cheap suit,the list becomes the prototype of the entire web. things look bloody bleak,Ill grant you that.Yet put yourself in their shoes for a sec,we are a bit like a motley bunch of global justice seekers that take over cities and scorn borders,advancing in diversity, we strike in unison. The logic and morality of the state is letting them down,dictatorships so much easier.Where does all the repression and money in the world lead them though? They cant catch every cypherpunk and run down every anarchist.What if we were to start using barter? I do some work for you and accept 10 kudos instead of dollars,our contract calls for stiff defence of all attempts to tax the 'kudo'.Does the 'sweet spot' lie in the rush to provide the state with the means to torture,imprison and enslave? Or withdraw from the powder tainted means of exchange thats turning this place into venus.Paper money should share the same fate as repression,cypherpunks can mark the trail to the promised land,you know theres no other way. Viva HAWALA!