C-punks are not about " Crypto' or " Privacy ' alone

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Sat Dec 18 17:02:51 PST 2021


In one of his rare lucid intervals, Assmange said recently , " Cypherpunks are about privacy for the poor and transparency for the rich ". 
Just as modern cryptography is used for privacy AND authentication which may be public.
Sear " The Blockchain as public ledger ".

Those trying to assert cypherpunks are just about crypto have a Mongo problem since he asserted this list was designed to discuss the socio-economic ie POLITICAL effects of ubiquitous networked encryption. Those wanting to discuss this ' scaffolding ' in detail were cordially invited to hive off - then the CODERPUNKS list was started.

If you are convinced of the cowardly traitors, Eric Hughes, assertions in a narrow sense then you have a serious problem with this list.  Btw, its also CRYPTO-ANARCHY, not  crypto-privacy or just crypto alone as some sort of apolitical abstraction.  Needless to say crypto-currency is not crypto-anarchy either. 
I don't know how many people that come here read the archives. It seems - not many.  Meh.
Finally the ancap, rightwing libertarian distro of cypherpunk politics revolves around cyber-liberty NOT crypto-anarchy.  As Rothbard says at Mises libertarians like this can never be anarchists.


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