"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word 'anarchy', in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary."
— Wei Dai (b-money proposal, 1998)
#cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #crypto-anarchy #b-money #governance
"Pretty Good Privacy empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #pgp #empowerment
"Digital signatures using public-key cryptosystems provide verification of both integrity and authenticity of messages."
— Ralph Merkle (Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems, 1979)
#cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #digital-signatures #cryptography #authentication
