A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

by rasengan • 3 years ago

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dang• 3 years ago

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injeolmi_love• 3 years ago

Worth considering in light of Vitalik’s recent essay “Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again” which addresses how blockchains lost their original cypherpunk roots to financialization and the accompanying statist interventions.

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

asynchronous• 3 years ago

I’m convinced that ease of use is antithetical to punk culture in a lot of ways, so maybe this was inevitable.

noman-land• 3 years ago

Aesthetically easy may not be punk but punk rock is notoriously easy to play and the barrier to entry is about passion, not technical achievements.

Technology stripped to just the essentials necessary to further the ethos seems pretty punk to me.

bawolff3• 3 years ago

Its funny, because cryptocurrency/NFTs/etc feels like the least punk thing i can possibly imagine

friend_and_foe2• 3 years ago

Neither is working for a multi billion dollar multinational tech firm designing ways to spy on users, get them addicted and manipulate their worldviews, but that doesn't stop most of the people who do from fantasizing and larping.

actuallyrizzn2• 3 years ago

It's a failure of imagination.

Research FreeRossDAO or UkraineDAO.

Literally changing the world and saving lives with the tech you can't imagine being punk.

Cope.

pyuser583• 3 years ago

Berlin was the spiritual center of the cyberpunk movement back in the 80s.

Berlin has changed so much since then. It was a divided, post-apocalyptic city, “occupied” by two foreign powers. Lots of soldiers, draft-dogers, musicians, communists, and ex-Nazis.

Now it’s a pretty boring capital city, just like Bonn was back in the day.

I’m glad to see it’s still doing cyberpunk type stuff, like having bitcoin markets.

symmetrist• 3 years ago

Completely at odds with the techno-optimist manifesto which requires complete transparency in all transactions.

actuallyrizzn2• 3 years ago

Not really.

You should have the tech to have as much privacy as you want. The two ideas are compatible.

lottin• 3 years ago

I really don't get his "technological vision". I don't know why anyone would prefer his "decentralized stack" over the "traditional stack" that he intends to replace. He doesn't even try to convince us about why it is better.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)

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