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devcon 7 / the history and philosophy of cypherpunk

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The History and Philosophy of Cypherpunk

Duration: 00:25:55

Speaker: Max Hampshire, Harry Halpin, Iness Ben Guirat

Type: Talk

Expertise: Beginner

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2024

Rather than bend to knee to Donald Trump, the goal of the cypherpunk movement is to abolish the state in order to maximize human freedom via privacy-enhancing decentralized technologie. After reviewing the history of this deviant group of programmers in the 1980s, what philosophical and technical lessons do the cypherpunks hold for Ethereum today? Censorship-resistant digital cash was only one the start, and the missing parts of their legacy: mixnets and anonymous credentials for identity.

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AnonymityCensorship ResistanceDigital SovereigntycypherpunkmixnetcryptoanarchyPoliticsValues