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“Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!”
— Timothy May, 1988
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
What would Timothy May think of “Crypto Week”?
If the OG cypherpunk and author of The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto were here to read the statement from the House of Representatives — itself a kind of manifesto — declaring this to be Crypto Week, I expect he’d have mixed feelings about it.
He’d certainly object to the idea of a “Crypto Czar,” appointed by the president of the very government whose authority he hoped to undermine.
(“Cryptologic…
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