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Episode 105: Michael Gibson Wants to Light the Paper Belt on Fire

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What Attracted You to Cryptography?

The gateway drug for me, as maybe it is for a lot of people my age, was Neil Stevenson and the Kryptonomicon. I think that was my the first time I came across any sort of layman's explanation of cryptography. So around that time when I was in grad school, I started learning more about it. And then by the time he was in, I've been involved in side movements like the C-steading stuff. One of the original C-stead ideas was a group of people who wanted to set up a data haven off the coast of of England. That's sort of how I did get come into Peter Thiel's world.

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