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privacy/2026-02-08
FILE 00121KFrom Cathedral to Casino: How Crypto Betrayed the Cypherpunk Dream
Crypto was born from a radical vision of privacy and liberation. Decades later, it's become synonymous with fraud, political corruption, and memecoins. A deep dive into the cypherpunk origins, the betrayal of those ideals, and what it would take to reclaim them.
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privacy/2025-12-03
FILE 00216KThe Second Crypto War: A Private Ethereum
In 1988, Tim May predicted encrypted systems would 'alter completely the nature of government regulation.' In 1993, Eric Hughes declared 'Cypherpunks write code.' Thirty years later, developers are going to prison for doing exactly that. But something is shifting. Vitalik is building privacy wallets, Naval is calling Zcash 'insurance against Bitcoin,' and a team of physicists just launched the first fully decentralized private blockchain. The cypherpunks are fighting back.
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