"Advances in information technology have made possible the rise of a truly international currency that does not depend on a central bank."
β Nick Szabo (Bit Gold, 2005)
#digitalcurrency #centralbank #international
"Bitcoin is the most significant computer science breakthrough in the last 20 years."
β Adam Back (Conference speech, 2017)
#bitcoin #computerscience
"What is the greatest unsolved problem in cryptography today? Lack of user awareness."
β Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004)
#cryptography
"Mathematics is not the law."
β Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#mathematics #law #cryptography #philosophy
"They're abridging the freedom and privacy of all citizensβto defend us against a bogeyman that they will not explain. The decision to literally trade away our privacy is one that must be made by the whole society, not made unilaterally by a military spy agency."
β John Gilmore (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #freedom #government #nsa #democracy
"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence."
β Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#surveillance #government #privacy
"Crypto anarchy is not just about avoiding laws. It's about making certain laws unenforceable, and hence making them obsolete."
β Tim May (Cypherpunks Mailing List, 1992)
#cryptoanarchy #law #enforcement
"Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action."
β Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, 2012)
#cryptography #nonviolence
"If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy."
β Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #privacy #warning
