"The key question at the heart of the cypherpunk movement was not freedom, but the crisis of freedom in a situation of extensive social control of dominant institutions over private individuals."
— Enrico Beltramini (Against technocratic authoritarianism, 2020)
#cypherpunk #freedom #surveillance #control
"Using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous 'digital cash,' it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given."
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#encryption #digitalcash #anonymity #privacy
