"The age of the printable gun has arrived, and there's nothing anyone can do about it." — Cody Wilson (Come and Take It, 2016) #3dprinting

"If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?" — Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013) #law #privacy #surveillance #government

"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

"Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries." — Edward Snowden (Permanent Record, 2019) #patriotism #constitution #whistleblower

"For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive." — Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2011) #bitcoin #security #economics

"Somebody had to be the first one to start banging on the Berlin Wall, with a sledgehammer, in 1989. Somebody had to be the first to walk through. Somebody had to be the first to stand up and say, 'Enough!'" — Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997) #resistance #freedom

"Bitcoin is not just a currency. It's a platform for trust." — Andreas Antonopoulos (The Internet of Money, 2016) #bitcoin #trust

"Privacy gives each of us more control over his own life—which on average, if not in every case, is likely to lead to a freer world." — David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005) #privacy #freedom

"Remember, there are a lot tyrants out there." — Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018) #tyranny #warning #freedom

"Public key cryptography is a revolution that puts control of privacy into the hands of the individual." — Whitfield Diffie (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976) #cryptography #publickey #privacy

"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

"Using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous 'digital cash,' it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given." — Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997) #encryption #digitalcash #anonymity #privacy

"Withdrawing into technology is like pulling the blankets over your head. It feels good for a while, until reality catches up. The next Clipper or Digital Telephony proposal will provide a rude awakening." — Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994) #politics #warning

"Trusted third parties are security holes." — Nick Szabo (Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes, 2001) #security #trust #decentralization

"A hash function should be a one-way function — easy to compute but difficult to reverse." — Ralph Merkle (A Certified Digital Signature, 1989) #cryptography

"It is important to realize that while distributed consensus is a hard problem, ordinary consensus is much easier and better studied, and can be solved some trillions of times more efficiently by use of trusted identifiable signing parties. Therefore, cryptocurrencies which compromise by introducing trusted parties, even under limited circumstances, should consider whether their new trust model is one for which consensus is easily achieved by some other mechanism." — Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015) #consensus #trust #cryptocurrency #bitcoin

"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence." — Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991) #surveillance #government #privacy

"Some have predicted that the initial success of electronic money may be in the form of a technically illegal 'black market' where crypto-hackers buy and sell information, using cryptography to protect against government crackdowns." — Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993) #digitalcash #cryptography #resistance

"The government used to actually be able to control powerful crypto, because none of it existed outside its control. When the cow is in the barn, it's simple to keep it in the barn. But when an independent community started making breakthroughs and publishing papers, the task became more difficult." — Steven Levy (The WELL - Crypto Discussion, 2001) #government #cryptography #control #freedom

"The cypherpunk movement provides an intelligible, viable, and effective model of data activism and strategic agency." — Patrick D. Anderson (Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance, 2022) #cypherpunk #dataactivism #resistance #agency