"'Swiss banks in cyberspace' will make economic transactions much more liquid and much less subject to local rules and regulations."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#digitalcash #economics #regulation #freedom
Cypherpunk Quotes
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"I am an engineer, not a mathematician. I try to find practical solutions to actual problems."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#cryptography
"Google and Facebook are not really in the business of data – they are in the business of power."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#surveillance #power #techcompanies #data
"Because cash is permissionless, it is censorship resistant."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #censorship #permissionless #freedom
"I believed in the idea of giving people the freedom to buy and sell and connect with each other without the all-seeing eye of government watching every move."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #privacy
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#cyberspace #philosophy #digitalworld
"In view of the serious implications of such a law, I abandoned my plans to charge for PGP in the hopes of achieving wider distribution."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#pgp #encryption #government #backdoors
"Bitcoin is not just a currency. It's a platform for trust."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (The Internet of Money, 2016)
#bitcoin #trust
"They have built a legal paradigm that presumes records collected about us do not belong to us."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#privacy #legal
"We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #government #corporations
"If you have a certain amount of time to spend on advancing the cause of greater personal privacy, can you do it better by using the time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade your privacy?"
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#privacy #cryptography
"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #empowerment
"That cryptographic work is deeply tied to politics is a claim so obvious that only a cryptographer could fail to see it."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #politics
"There's a real possibility that all the noise about 'governance,' 'regulation' and 'blockchain' will effectively create a surveillance state, a dossier society."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#surveillance #regulation #blockchain #government
"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#whistleblowing #transparency #leaks
"The best defense against abusive government is an informed and active citizenry."
— Whitfield Diffie (Congressional testimony, 1993)
#government #defense
"WE STAND TODAY on the brink of a revolution in cryptography."
— Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #revolution #privacy #publickey
"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#privacy #encryption #law
"A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#cryptoanarchy #manifesto #cypherpunk
"Governments see their powers eroded by these technologies, and are taking various well-known steps to try to limit the use of strong crypto by their subjects."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#government #cryptography #regulation