"Remember, there are a lot tyrants out there."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#tyranny #warning #freedom
Cypherpunk Quotes
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"Digital cash, untraceable and anonymous (like real cash), is also coming, though various technical and practical hurdles remain."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#digitalcash #anonymity #privacy
"Cash is also pretty good for privacy because there's no camera that can capture every movement of a dollar bill every time it moves; it just wouldn't work."
— Peter Valkenburgh (Your Secret Right to Cash, 2017)
#cash #privacy #surveillance #technology
"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
"Bulk collection, which should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #masssurveillance
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
— John Gilmore (Time Magazine, 1993)
#censorship #internet #freedom
"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. And in the same manner that very significant resources spent on China's firewall, the result is that anyone who's motivated can work around it."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#censorship #leaks
"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #empowerment
"I am active in policy space rather writing code, doing a lot of public speaking. There is a lot of need for activism now in the shadow of the Patriot Act."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#patriotact #surveillance
"Their non-anonymity also means that a dedicated attacker will eventually always be able to attack the system."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#anonymity #security
"The ecosystem is moving towards consolidation because users don't want to run their own servers."
— Moxie Marlinspike (My First Impressions of Web3, 2022)
#decentralization
"Bitcoin isn't just money for the internet. It's a new form of money that is native to the internet."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin, 2014)
#bitcoin #internet #money
"Cash is also necessary to retain agency and autonomy. Autonomy can be understood as the power to make decisions for oneself without interference from others."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #autonomy #freedom #agency
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'"
— Richard Stallman (GNU Project, 1985)
#freesoftware #liberty #opensource
"In one direction lies unprecedented scrutiny and control of people's lives; in the other, secure parity between individuals and organizations. The shape of society in the next century may depend on which approach predominates."
— David Chaum (Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete, 1985)
#privacy #surveillance
"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker."
— Hal Finney (Cryptography Mailing List, 2008)
#bitcoin #security #proofofwork
"How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?"
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#freedom #internet #cypherpunk
"Cypherpunk cryptography has been described as crypto with an attitude. But it is much more than that, for, more than anything else, what the cypherpunks wanted was crypto with values."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cypherpunk #cryptography
"Be interested in liberty and the freedom to transact and speak to get back to the original motivations. Don't spend time trying to make government-friendly financial alternatives."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#liberty #freedom #transactions #government
"The key question at the heart of the cypherpunk movement was not freedom, but the crisis of freedom in a situation of extensive social control of dominant institutions over private individuals."
— Enrico Beltramini (Against technocratic authoritarianism, 2020)
#cypherpunk #freedom #surveillance #control