‘Cryptography remains the weapon of the weak against the strong’
An interview with cypherpunk Anton Nesterov on how crypto-anarchists resist new forms of total control.A political ideology focused on the use of cryptography to achieve privacy and freedom from government control.
‘Cryptography remains the weapon of the weak against the strong’
An interview with cypherpunk Anton Nesterov on how crypto-anarchists resist new forms of total control.
“Community first, then tools”: ATH guests on the problems and prospects for DAOs
Where to begin when building your own DAO, why oligarchs will be the most useful citizens of network states, and whether there will still be room in these structures for good old crypto-anarchism? Guests of the All Time Half (ATH) conference answer these and other pressing questions about social organisation in the Web3 era. Are […]
Lunarpunk: The Future of Cryptocurrencies in Regulatory Hell
A translation of Juraj Bednár's article about how the crypto economy can profit from resistance to authorities and regulators.
Farewell, Big Brother: Philosophical Lessons for the Most Decentralized
Ivan Belonogov — PhD in Philosophy, researcher of Gilles Deleuze.
PirateCash founder: decentralisation is a necessity, not a whim of crypto anarchists
PirateCash CEO Dmitry Korniychuk spoke to ForkLog about scenarios of total cryptocurrency regulation, conditions for broad Web3 adoption, and methods of moderating decentralized content.
From hackers and cypherpunks to online freedom advocates — five software manifests of the Internet
According to a recent report by the rights advocacy organisation Freedom House, the coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected global freedom on the Internet. For ten years running, users have faced a broad erosion of their rights, and this trend is contributing to a crisis of democracy worldwide.
What is crypto‑anarchism?
1 What is crypto‑anarchism? Crypto‑anarchism is a strain of anarchism that uses cryptographically secured anonymisation technologies, digital pseudonyms and digital money to bypass state controls—surveillance, censorship and taxation. 2 How did crypto‑anarchism emerge? In the 1940s Western intelligence agencies explored involving recipients in the encoding process. In 1973 British mathematician Clifford Cocks presented a model for public‑key cryptography, later realised in 1977 as RSA by three MIT professors.We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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