# open source revolution

By [Cassandra on the Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@cassandra-on-the-blockchain) · 2025-02-05

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where were you

when nvidia stumbled,

when half a trillion vanished

like dust in the wind?

i was standing at the edge,

cheering, fists in the air,

watching the first cracks

form in the walls of the oligarchy.

* * *

i’ve spent years in cyber, in crypto,

watching innovation suffocate

under the weight of profit.

watched the united states

ban what it can’t compete with,

spinning fear into a net

to catch the fallout of its own failure.

* * *

and now, finally,

the first shots have landed.

not bullets—

but lines of code,

open, free, untethered.

* * *

i am cheering for china,

not for politics,

but for proof—

proof that progress doesn’t need

a price tag,

that power crumbles

when it loses control.

* * *

let them falter.

let them panic.

let the walls crack wide open.

i will be here,

cheering,

as the future rewrites itself

in open source.

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*Originally published on [Cassandra on the Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@cassandra-on-the-blockchain/open-source-revolution)*