On 06/26/2020 10:05 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:54:01 +0000 таракан <cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com> wrote:
Well I guess Cypherpunks aren't necessarily trying to destroy governments, there are plenty of organizations doing that very well... especially their own secret services.
My understanding of Cypherpunks is - as per their Manifesto - that they are trying to build privacy in a world where privacy is becoming a crime.
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html
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Yeah, that's a decent list. As I've understood it, however, "collapse of governments" is the expected result, once the rest are effectively in place. Eliminating a particular government through armed struggle has typically led either to another government, or to a failed state. But if you create the basis of functional anarchy, government is superfluous. <snip>