Vitalik: Peter Thiel is by no means a cypherpunk

Jinse Finance reported that Ethereum founder Vitalik posted on X, stating that Peter Thiel, who now has many investments in the crypto space, is by no means a cypherpunk. Vitalik quoted Peter Thiel's 2007 article "The Straussian Moment," which wrote, "The American system needs intelligence, and secret coordination among global intelligence agencies is the decisive path to achieving peace under American rule." This statement predates Peter Thiel's famous 2009 remark, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible," by two years.