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The 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.

Derek Barnes