by Guy | Jun 8, 2020 | Cypherpunks, History
“Financial Cryptography is substantially complex, requiring skills drawn from diverse and incompatible, or at least, unfriendly, disciplines. Caught between Central Banking and Cryptography, or between accountants and programmers, there is a grave danger that...
by Guy | Dec 3, 2019 | Cypherpunks, Philosophy
Do we live in an age of liberty, where information is freely accessible, or an age of heavy-handed copyright restrictions where we are losing the ownership of the very devices we hold in our hands? If I had to judge, it’s probably a bit of both. Today we read a...
by Guy | Dec 3, 2019 | Cypherpunks, History
There were many precursors to the Bitcoin system, but IMO, none came as close to correctly defining the problem, & solving the key issues of trust as Nick Szabo’s Bit Gold concept. Reading another great piece made available by the Nakamoto Institute,...
by Guy | Oct 11, 2019 | Cypherpunks, History
Harold Thomas Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) In one of his last posts on the BitcoinTalk forums, Hal Finney posted a short message about his past, finding Bitcoin, working with Satoshi, coming to terms with his disease, and the legacy he was leaving behind....
by Guy | Oct 11, 2019 | Cypherpunks, History
Quick Read #300!!! Hard to believe we have come this far without the show. For this milestone it’s time to take it back to the philosophical roots of the movement that lead to the community, the ideas, and the drive to create Bitcoin and the other tools enabling...
by Guy | Oct 26, 2018 | Cypherpunks, Money
Vijay Boyapati details in a Twitter thread, the brilliant but subtle shift that cypherpunks discovered in the economic concept of scarcity that made the revolutionary technology of #Bitcoin possible. Follow Vijay on Twitter and share this thread below:...
