It's totally a reasonable modern analogue
October 14, 2018 10:32 PM   Subscribe

The Conversations That Crypto-currencies Killed, Sonya Mann, Jacobite Magazine - cypherpunks, distributed defense, bitcoin, anarcho-libertarianism, and decentralized self-organized parallel institutions.

Title from the relevant XKCD
posted by the man of twists and turns (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is apparently a neo-reactionary / neo(?)-fascist leaning site which is probably not a great link for us or the discussion itself; maybe a repost on the topic with other sources? -- taz



 
From this article and several others on this site... I don't want to be trapped in a room with these guys.
posted by prismatic7 at 11:08 PM on October 14, 2018 [2 favorites]


Wow, that article didn't age well. I think it's telling of their blinkered viewpoint that they spend so much of the article lauding Cody Wilson, who was arrested literally 2 months later for sexually assaulting a minor. Which was not a surprise at all to anyone with a familiarity with that guy in particular (he was the founder of Hatreon, the funding platform for brown shirts) or libertarians in general (why should the government place limits on the abuse I can inflict on people?).
posted by Balna Watya at 11:10 PM on October 14, 2018 [7 favorites]


Yeah... namechecking Identity Europa and radical traditionalism... these guys are not cool.
posted by prismatic7 at 11:12 PM on October 14, 2018 [1 favorite]


Tim May's Cyphernomicon [html , txt]

The Wild, Baffling and Sometimes Terrifying History of Crypto-Anarchy
For some cypherpunks, this heady mashup of the First and Fourth Amendments was shot through with a zeal for the Second. In The Cyphernomicon, a sort of crypto-anarchic Federalist Papers in FAQ form, Timothy May, the movement’s patron saint wrote that crypto, like guns, offered the individual “preemptive protection.” Borrowing the rhetoric of the National Rifle Association, he said that “if crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto.”
The Cypherpunk Revolution
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:02 AM on October 15, 2018


So I guess we'll need guns and cryptography to overthrow the kinds of terrifying systems these cypherpunks seem to want to install around us?
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:38 AM on October 15, 2018


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