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by dredmorbius 1614 days ago
David Chaum is the first person to propose and create an anonymous digital cash so far as I'm aware. I'm not finding overt politics in a brief search, but his general leanings and statements I do find seem to be strongly libertarian, away from centralisation and government monopolies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

Chaum is one of the names mentioned in this Reason retrospective --- the publication itself being a Libertarian mouthpiece.

https://reason.com/video/2020/10/07/before-the-web-the-1980s...