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2026-09-02 21:16:04 CEST

"There is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this conference room represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#cryptography #cypherpunk #resistance #government

2026-08-29 08:10:05 CEST

"The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#government #regulation

2026-08-27 10:08:12 CEST

2026-08-26 18:48:48 CEST

"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting."
— Edward Snowden (The Guardian Interview, 2013)
#nsa #surveillance #masssurveillance

2026-08-22 10:32:05 CEST

"We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #government #corporations

2026-08-20 18:36:37 CEST

"Because Bitcoin's DMMS is computationally, and therefore thermodynamically, very expensive, alternatives have been proposed which seek to be economically and environmentally more efficient. One popular alternative, proof-of-stake, is frequently proposed as a mechanism for a cheap distributed consensus. As argued by the author in 2014, this is simply not workable."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#bitcoin #consensus #cryptocurrency

2026-08-20 03:19:39 CEST

"The last characteristic which we note in the history of cryptography is the division between amateur and professional cryptographers. Skill in production cryptanalysis has always been heavily on the side of the professionals, but innovation, particularly in the design of new types of cryptographic systems, has come primarily from the amateurs."
— Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #innovation #amateur #freedom

2026-08-19 18:33:23 CEST

"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves."
— Aaron Swartz (Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008)
#openaccess

2026-08-19 10:38:52 CEST

"It is important to realize that while distributed consensus is a hard problem, ordinary consensus is much easier and better studied, and can be solved some trillions of times more efficiently by use of trusted identifiable signing parties. Therefore, cryptocurrencies which compromise by introducing trusted parties, even under limited circumstances, should consider whether their new trust model is one for which consensus is easily achieved by some other mechanism."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#consensus #trust #cryptocurrency #bitcoin

2026-08-19 03:20:18 CEST

"Privacy gives each of us more control over his own life—which on average, if not in every case, is likely to lead to a freer world."
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy #freedom

2026-08-18 18:33:07 CEST

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
— Linus Torvalds (Linux Kernel Mailing List, 2000)
#code #opensource

2026-08-18 10:38:52 CEST

"Bitcoin is a tool of resistance gifted to us by Satoshi. The idea has escaped and the idea of cryptocurrency will not be stopped."
— Amir Taaki (The libbitcoin Manifesto, 2013)
#bitcoin #resistance #cryptocurrency #freedom

2026-08-18 03:18:34 CEST

"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#surveillance #government #privacy

2026-08-17 18:29:29 CEST

"Money, like written language, was one of the most important inventions of civilization."
— Nick Szabo (Shelling Out: The Origins of Money, 2002)
#money #civilization #history

2026-08-17 10:45:02 CEST

"Cash is also necessary to retain agency and autonomy. Autonomy can be understood as the power to make decisions for oneself without interference from others."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #autonomy #freedom #agency

2026-08-17 03:21:24 CEST

"They have built a legal paradigm that presumes records collected about us do not belong to us."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#privacy #legal

2026-08-16 18:27:05 CEST

"The people in this room hope for a world where an individual's informational footprints—everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion—can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #cypherpunk #encryption #freedom

2026-08-16 10:31:32 CEST

"Fundamentally, I believe we will have the kind of society that most people want. If we want freedom and privacy, we must persuade others that these are worth having. There are no shortcuts."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#freedom #privacy

2026-08-16 03:24:21 CEST

"Bitcoin is not just a currency. It's a platform for trust."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (The Internet of Money, 2016)
#bitcoin #trust

2026-08-15 18:26:26 CEST

"When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2013)
#bitcoin #satoshi #history

2026-08-15 10:30:54 CEST

"Somebody had to be the first one to start banging on the Berlin Wall, with a sledgehammer, in 1989. Somebody had to be the first to walk through. Somebody had to be the first to stand up and say, 'Enough!'"
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#resistance #freedom

2026-08-15 03:19:47 CEST

"If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?"
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#law #privacy #surveillance #government

2026-08-14 18:55:01 CEST

"That cryptographic work is deeply tied to politics is a claim so obvious that only a cryptographer could fail to see it."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #politics

2026-08-14 11:08:39 CEST

"Technology has let the genie out of the bottle. Crypto anarchy is liberating individuals from coercion by their physical neighbors—who cannot know who they are on the Net—and from governments."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#cryptoanarchy #freedom #government

2026-08-14 04:05:26 CEST

"The NSA's cryptographic monopoly has evaporated."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#nsa #cryptography #monopoly #freedom

2026-08-13 18:57:28 CEST

"That's why our primary defense isn't law, but technology."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#law #defense #wikileaks

2026-08-13 11:14:07 CEST

"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #selfdefense #anonymoustransactions

2026-08-13 04:07:12 CEST

"'Swiss banks in cyberspace' will make economic transactions much more liquid and much less subject to local rules and regulations."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#digitalcash #economics #regulation #freedom

2026-08-12 18:57:38 CEST

"Strong cryptography can resist an unlimited amount of violence. No amount of coercive force will ever solve a math problem."
— Tim May (Cypherpunks Mailing List, 1993)
#cryptography #violence #mathematics

2026-08-12 11:13:07 CEST

"Some have predicted that the initial success of electronic money may be in the form of a technically illegal 'black market' where crypto-hackers buy and sell information, using cryptography to protect against government crackdowns."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #cryptography #resistance

2026-08-12 04:05:16 CEST

"For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2011)
#bitcoin #security #economics

2026-08-11 18:58:17 CEST

"You use envelopes for postal mail. You use it for love letters, business letters and your medical records. The only way to create the digital equivalent of an envelope is to encrypt."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#encryption #privacy #email #envelopes

2026-08-11 10:58:58 CEST

"I am active in policy space rather writing code, doing a lot of public speaking. There is a lot of need for activism now in the shadow of the Patriot Act."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#patriotact #surveillance

2026-08-11 03:52:33 CEST

"Just as a merchant will accept cash from a customer without demanding proof of identity, we also want our electronic money system to allow similar transactions to take place, without the identity of the people involved being revealed to each other, or even to someone who is monitoring the network."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #anonymity #privacy

2026-08-10 18:54:55 CEST

"The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global social network."
— fiatjaf (Nostr Protocol Documentation, 2020)
#nostr #protocol #censorshipresistance

2026-08-10 11:23:58 CEST

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
— Linus Torvalds (Linux Kernel Mailing List, 2000)
#code #opensource

2026-08-10 03:56:49 CEST

"Technological ideas and technological things are not politically neutral: routinely, they have strong, built-in tendencies."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#politics

2026-08-09 18:37:10 CEST

"If cryptography's most basic aim is to enable secure communications, how could it not be a colossal failure of our field when ordinary people lack even a modicum of communication privacy when interacting electronically?"
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #privacy

2026-08-09 10:45:08 CEST

"Every action I took was out of a desire to enable people to have freedom and control over their own lives."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #autonomy

2026-08-09 03:52:31 CEST

"Bulk collection, which should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #masssurveillance

2026-08-08 18:35:33 CEST

"What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope, it would draw suspicion."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#privacy #encryption #conformity

2026-08-08 10:43:14 CEST

"Mathematics is not the law."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#mathematics #law #cryptography #philosophy

2026-08-08 03:46:24 CEST

"I had this view of cryptography in which the critical value of cryptography was that you didn't have to trust other people."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust #autonomy

2026-08-07 18:55:32 CEST

"In the long run, the real battle will be the one fought in defense of technologies that protect privacy. That one we might win."
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy #cryptography #freedom

2026-08-07 11:00:48 CEST

"Digital pseudonyms, the creation of persistent network personas that cannot be forged by others and yet which are unlinkable to the 'true names' of their owners, are finding major uses in ensuring free speech, in allowing controversial opinions to be aired, and in providing for economic transactions that cannot be blocked by local governments."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#freespeech #anonymity #economics

2026-08-07 04:45:03 CEST

"I even question Mike's point about the government's inability to ban books. Look at the difficulty in keeping PGP available in this country even though it is legal. Not only have FTP sites been steadily closed down, even the key servers have as well."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#government #censorship #politics #pgp

2026-08-06 12:41:20 CEST

"If we had a mapping which took the fixed digicash bits onto the interesting parts of the fractal, then fake cash would not produce pretty pictures, while real cash would produce some part of a beautiful fractal. Again, you would have validation and beauty being tied together."
— Hal Finney (The Beauty of ECash, 1994)
#digitalcash #cryptography

2026-08-06 04:43:17 CEST

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #manifesto

2026-08-05 19:40:04 CEST

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'"
— Richard Stallman (GNU Project, 1985)
#freesoftware #liberty #opensource

2026-08-05 12:37:10 CEST

"By the 1990s, at the NSA at least, they figured out that it was impossible to totally snuff the stuff, and that there was a need for some form of crypto for citizens. So the idea was to keep the strong stuff out of general usage, by banning its export."
— Steven Levy (The WELL - Crypto Discussion, 2001)
#nsa #cryptography #exportlaws #government

2026-08-05 04:40:35 CEST

"Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#anonymity #privacy

2026-08-04 19:50:06 CEST

"Building security from day one is much easier than adding it on as an afterthought."
— Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004)
#security

2026-08-04 12:41:16 CEST

"Withdrawing into technology is like pulling the blankets over your head. It feels good for a while, until reality catches up. The next Clipper or Digital Telephony proposal will provide a rude awakening."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#politics #warning

2026-08-04 04:42:48 CEST

"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #empowerment

2026-08-03 19:52:38 CEST

"Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — have been given an enormous privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out."
— Aaron Swartz (Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008)
#openaccess

2026-08-03 13:25:41 CEST

"Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and it is necessary for an open society."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #privacy #autonomy #opensociety

2026-08-03 04:57:53 CEST

2026-08-02 19:01:24 CEST

"Courage is contagious. If you demonstrate that individuals can leak something and go on to live a good life, it's tremendously incentivizing to people."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#whistleblowing

2026-08-02 11:59:00 CEST

"There's a real possibility that all the noise about 'governance,' 'regulation' and 'blockchain' will effectively create a surveillance state, a dossier society."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#surveillance #regulation #blockchain #government

2026-08-02 04:56:41 CEST

"It is tempting to try for the best of both worlds—to restrict the privacy of bad people while protecting that of good, permit governments to collect detailed information about us but only allow it to be used for good purposes. But somebody must decide who are the good people and the bad, what purposes are worthy or unworthy. Whoever that somebody is will have his own agenda, his own purposes. Angels are in short supply."
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy #government #freedom

2026-08-01 19:02:26 CEST

"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love."
— Julian Assange (State and Terrorist Conspiracies, 2006)

2026-08-01 12:02:36 CEST

"The cypherpunk movement provides an intelligible, viable, and effective model of data activism and strategic agency."
— Patrick D. Anderson (Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance, 2022)
#cypherpunk #dataactivism #resistance #agency

2026-08-01 04:57:44 CEST

"As we move to an increasingly online world in which physical cash is not practical for many transactions, we must also develop and foster electronic cash that is as privacy-preserving and permissionless as physical cash."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#electroniccash #privacy #permissionless #cryptocurrency

2026-07-31 19:40:18 CEST

"The notion that we can just fade into cypherspace and ignore the unpleasant political realities is unrealistic, in my view."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#politics #cypherpunk

2026-07-31 12:41:24 CEST

"The law enforcement folks were stuck longer in the hard-core phase, and still are, even now using Bin Laden to suggest that crypto has GONE TOO FAR, damn it."
— Steven Levy (The WELL - Crypto Discussion, 2001)
#lawenforcement #cryptography #government #terrorism

2026-07-31 04:58:13 CEST

"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves."
— Aaron Swartz (Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008)
#openaccess

2026-07-30 12:26:06 CEST

"The internet is a tool of freedom and self-determination. Meddling in its mechanics is destructive. Whenever a website is blocked, a protocol is corrupted at some low level or undesirable traffic shaping occurs then seismic ripples of censorship and destruction lead to degradation of the network. The internet is fundamental to humanity, and must be protected at all costs."
— Amir Taaki (The libbitcoin Manifesto, 2013)
#internet #freedom #censorship #resistance

2026-07-30 04:32:38 CEST

"The best defense against abusive government is an informed and active citizenry."
— Whitfield Diffie (Congressional testimony, 1993)
#government #defense

2026-07-29 19:17:00 CEST

"There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later try to reduce the freedom of its subjects and gain more control over them, and there probably never will be one."
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#freedom #cypherpunk

2026-07-29 12:40:50 CEST

2026-07-29 04:47:48 CEST

"Cypherpunk cryptography has been described as crypto with an attitude. But it is much more than that, for, more than anything else, what the cypherpunks wanted was crypto with values."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cypherpunk #cryptography

2026-07-28 19:36:50 CEST

"If the federal government had access to every email you've ever written and every phone call you've ever made, it's almost certain that they could find something you've done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don't know it yet."
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#privacy #surveillance #law #nothingtohide

2026-07-28 12:37:08 CEST

"Be interested in liberty and the freedom to transact and speak to get back to the original motivations. Don't spend time trying to make government-friendly financial alternatives."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#liberty #freedom #transactions #government

2026-07-28 04:40:52 CEST

"Their non-anonymity also means that a dedicated attacker will eventually always be able to attack the system."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#anonymity #security

2026-07-27 19:43:49 CEST

"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. And in the same manner that very significant resources spent on China's firewall, the result is that anyone who's motivated can work around it."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#censorship #leaks

2026-07-27 13:25:26 CEST

"In a world without cash (a bearer and peer-to-peer form of money) all transactions must be necessarily intermediated by financial institutions. Intermediated transactions are by their nature subject to surveillance and control."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #surveillance #control #intermediation

2026-07-27 05:22:29 CEST

"You can pay for access to a database, download a program, or have a prescription filled — without anyone being able to trace the transaction back to you."
— David Chaum (Security Without Identification, 1985)
#privacy #transactions #anonymity

2026-07-26 19:03:24 CEST

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security

2026-07-26 12:02:05 CEST

"Tracking everyone is no longer inconceivable, and is in fact happening all the time."
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#surveillance #tracking #privacy #warning

2026-07-26 04:57:24 CEST

"I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2010)
#bitcoin #banking #gold

2026-07-25 19:00:34 CEST

"End-to-end encryption should be the default for all communication."
— Moxie Marlinspike (Signal blog, 2016)
#encryption #privacy

2026-07-25 11:49:47 CEST

"A hash function should be a one-way function — easy to compute but difficult to reverse."
— Ralph Merkle (A Certified Digital Signature, 1989)
#cryptography

2026-07-25 04:48:27 CEST

"Proprietary software is an injustice. It denies users freedom and keeps them divided and helpless."
— Richard Stallman (Free Software, Free Society, 2002)
#proprietarysoftware #freedom

2026-07-24 19:39:09 CEST

"When you expose your privacy, you put us all at risk."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#privacy #collective #warning #surveillance

2026-07-24 12:20:26 CEST

"The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global social network."
— fiatjaf (Nostr Protocol Documentation, 2020)
#nostr #protocol #censorshipresistance

2026-07-24 04:49:16 CEST

"But there is another solution, one advocated forcefully by computer scientist David Chaum. Rather than relying on new laws and more government, Chaum looks to technical solutions. And these solutions rely on the ancient science devoted to keeping information confidential: cryptography."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#cryptography #privacy #government

2026-07-23 19:24:25 CEST

"If you encrypted your files, then if a court wanted your files they would have to come and threaten you and you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files or not."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#encryption #privacy

2026-07-23 12:24:41 CEST

2026-07-23 04:54:39 CEST

"Security is a process, not a product."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security

2026-07-22 19:22:10 CEST

"The tech powers that be are nothing without our data."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#data #power #resistance #techcompanies

2026-07-22 12:26:35 CEST

"We live in a golden age for surveillance. Everything you do can be captured."
— Jacob Appelbaum (30C3 Congress, 2013)
#surveillance #privacy

2026-07-22 04:48:29 CEST

"It's not data that's being exploited. It's people that are being exploited. It's not data that's being manipulated, it's you that's being manipulated."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #privacy

2026-07-21 19:22:51 CEST

"The keyboard is the great equalizer — better than the Glock .45."
— St. Jude (Jude Milhon) (Modem Grrrl (Wired), 1995)
#technology #empowerment #equality #defense

2026-07-21 12:26:12 CEST

"Bitcoin is not a list of cryptographic features, it's a very complex system of interacting mathematics and protocols in pursuit of what was a very unpopular goal."
— Nick Szabo (Bitcoin, what took ye so long?, 2011)
#bitcoin #cryptography #protocols

2026-07-21 04:50:41 CEST

"They're abridging the freedom and privacy of all citizens—to defend us against a bogeyman that they will not explain. The decision to literally trade away our privacy is one that must be made by the whole society, not made unilaterally by a military spy agency."
— John Gilmore (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #freedom #government #nsa #democracy

2026-07-20 20:05:59 CEST

"Cash is an escape valve in our increasingly intermediated and therefore surveilled world."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #privacy #surveillance #freedom

2026-07-20 12:53:57 CEST

"Google and Facebook are not really in the business of data – they are in the business of power."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#surveillance #power #techcompanies #data

2026-07-20 05:22:33 CEST

2026-07-19 18:59:44 CEST

"We are on a path today which, if nothing changes, will lead to a world with the potential for greater government power, intrusion, and control. We can change this; these technologies can revolutionize the relationship between individuals and organizations, putting them both on an equal footing for the first time."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#government #freedom

2026-07-19 11:53:22 CEST

"Perhaps we never fully understand that balance until one of those secret rights disappears without warning, because no one even knew it mattered until it was gone."
— Peter Valkenburgh (Your Secret Right to Cash, 2017)
#rights #warning #privacy #freedom