I probably did more than most to spread the "mountain man" trope (btw I consider those remarks of mine outdated; snarks and AA changed the tradeoff space completely), and I'll happily say that I think
@saylor's comments are batshit insane.
He seems to be explicitly arguing for a regulatory capture approach to protecting crypto ("when you have regulated public entities like Blackrock and Fidelity and ... holding the asset, all the lawmakers and law enforcement arms are invested in those entitites"). There's plenty of precedent for how this strategy can fail, and for me it's not what crypto is about.