Adam Back Reflects on the Cypherpunk Movement, Inventing Hashcash, Satoshi & Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Matrix
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Cryptography
When you came across cryptography and even more so the cypherpunk movement did you think that this was a winnable fight. And David and Goliath kind of sense that an individual could create, pre and open source software that could really make it a very individual and or defeat the state in some way I mean, it seems like a very brave thing to do or sort of risky to take on this endeavor.Yeah, I mean it wasn't without a couple of risk I guess. Some people can use privacy for communication but they can also use it to send, you know, threatening messages that somebody will complain about right. Sometimes the recipient will complain to the authorities and the authorities will try
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