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A Cypherpunk Manifesto | Crypto Anarchist Series | Episode 2 (WiM299)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Importance of Privacy in an Open Society

The freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech and it will not go away merely because we might want it to. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired.

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