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Since post-Snowden, the Cypherpunk Movement somehow became active again, but many are not aware of the history of Cypherpunk. I recommend everyone who is interested in cryptography, privacy and Cypherpunk to read A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html), and The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (https://activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html) for the starter, both are very short and concise. After reading the Manifesto, everyone should read Tim May’s Cyphernomicon, the most important document - the only comprehensive and the only documentation of the entire Cypherpunk movement. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt Yes, it’s ten thousand lines of plaintext in a list format, and obviously not easy to read. It may be difficult to start, but it is surely an amazing collecting of ideas. You should download it to your disk, open your favorite text editor, and choose a nice color scheme, to read the entire document, line-by-line, as if you are reading some source code. In my opinion, this is the most comfortable way to read. You may need two weeks to a month to finish the reading, use the bookmark feature of your text editor to mark your progress. Another useful note is that, Tim May’s documentation is heavily leaning towards Anarcho-Capitalism, but as he said, the house of Cypherpunk has many room. |
[1] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbhG99r1PQGxAhuMMMFnvBiJ1voxBccYxe6QfQ... [2] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt