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.