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

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Apr 12, 2023

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INSIGHT

Privacy vs. Secrecy

Privacy is not secrecy; it's the option to selectively reveal information.
This selective revelation is crucial in the digital age, where oversharing is easy.

INSIGHT

Privacy and Voluntary Action

Privacy is essential for an open society because it equates to voluntary action.
Without voluntary action, there's no society, civilization, or humanity.

INSIGHT

The State's Need for Legibility

Governments need to make citizens' activities legible for taxation, creating a demand for privacy.
Visibility into income enables extortion, not just by governments but by any malicious actor.

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Max Hillebrand joins me for a series of conversations covering the work on crypto-anarchism. In this episode, we discuss "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" written by Eric Hughes.

Max Hillebrand is a free software entrepreneur building tools to empower individual sovereignty.

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00:00:00 - Coming up
00:01:09 - Intro
00:02:42 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
00:03:29 - Introducing Max Hilbert
00:03:51 - A Cypherpunk Manifesto
00:10:27 - A Strong Case for Privacy
00:14:39 - The Relationship Between Taxation and Privacy
00:19:06 - An Option to Reveal or Conceal One's Privacy
00:23:55 - Governments and their Privacy
00:28:06 - Can you Steal Information?
00:31:19 - Bitcoin and the Legal System
00:34:50 - The Staggering Effects of The Global Communication Engine
00:41:28 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with The iCoin Hardware Wallet
00:42:25 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth
00:43:26 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet
00:44:01 - A Blurry Line Between Interactions and Transactions
00:48:18 - Selectively Revealing The Information
00:54:33 - “I Must Always Reveal Myself”
00:56:13 - Privacy in an Open Society Requires Anonymous Transaction System
00:58:11 - Monero vs. Bitcoin Argument
01:03:13 - Is Monero a Shitcoin?
01:05:09 - Why It’ll Take Years to Use Bitcoin Properly
01:08:12 - Transacting without Revealing One’s Identity
01:10:26 - Zero-Knowledge Proof and Cryptographic Signatures
01:15:32 - How Facebook Owns Your Data
01:17:58 - “Information Understands Less than Rumor”
01:19:47 - "Information Longs to be Free"
01:22:58 - A Chance to Win Discounted Tickets to the Bitcoin 2023 Conference and 10M SATS
01:23:53 - Hold Bitcoin in the Most Secure Custody Model with Casa
01:24:41 - The Only Way Out of the No Privacy Problem
01:30:44 - The Reason Behind the Movement
01:37:45 - A Stance Against Stateism Through Cryptography
01:40:56 - "Cryptography will Ineluctably Spread over the Whole Globe"
01:42:40 - The Incentives are a Ground Stand of Human Action
01:45:41 - An Open Source Ethos with Emphasis on Humility and Human Action
01:52:26 - Breaking down the word 'Cypherpunk'
01:53:07 - Human Flourishing or Global Totalitarianism
01:55:11 - What Motivates Max to Improve the Privacy of Humanity
02:00:51 - What Work Should Max and Robert Cover Next?

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