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Against technocratic authoritarianism. A short intellectual history of the cypherpunk movement
Internet Histories, 2020This essay aims to correct the established idea that the cypherpunk movement was organically embracing libertarianism.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
The origins of decentralised technologies are often attributed to the Cypherpunks who pursued the development of privacy preserving tools against government surveillance. The Cypherpunk story is often portrayed as a “David versus Goliath” battle between counterculture rebels who wanted to subvert state surveillance with cryptographic tools, and the ...
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The origins of decentralised technologies are often attributed to the Cypherpunks who pursued the development of privacy preserving tools against government surveillance. The Cypherpunk story is often portrayed as a “David versus Goliath” battle between counterculture rebels who wanted to subvert state surveillance with cryptographic tools, and the ...
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FROM CYBERPUNK TO CYPHERPUNK: THE TECHNICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF BITCOIN
Ege Akademik Bakis (Ege Academic Review)Cryptocurrencies initially gained prominence by eliminating intermediaries in payment systems and later found applications in various business sectors. The crypto network, pioneered by Bitcoin, has spurred new business forms and organizational structures with diverse motivations. Bitcoin's emergence is technically dated to 2008.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Describing the attributes and characteristics has an important place in the ethnographic study of information infrastructure. Yet, decentralised information infrastructure does not have a clearly defined “ethnography”, by which to describe its unique attributes. This piece draws on historical research on the ‘cypherpunk mailing list’ archives to form a
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Describing the attributes and characteristics has an important place in the ethnographic study of information infrastructure. Yet, decentralised information infrastructure does not have a clearly defined “ethnography”, by which to describe its unique attributes. This piece draws on historical research on the ‘cypherpunk mailing list’ archives to form a
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The legacy of cypherpunk in the modern economy
Economic AffairsAbstractThis article explores how the cypherpunk movement – advocating privacy, digital sovereignty, and digital decentralisation – shaped modern economic paradigms, particularly cryptocurrencies and decentralised finance. Originating in the late twentieth century, its principles laid the groundwork for blockchain technologies and challenged state ...
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Sailors of the network: hackers and cypherpunks in comparison
The paper "Sailors of the Network: Hackers and Cypherpunks in Comparison" by Anna Valenti examines the differences between hackers and cypherpunks. Hackers focus on modifying technology for freedom and decentralization, while cypherpunks emphasize privacy, encryption, and distributed systems.openaire +1 more source