Death of Cypherpunks Two - This time its personal

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 26 21:37:38 PDT 2021


Like an inverse Marxist, Tim May tended to believe that the inexorable expansion of private cryptography made the victory of crypto-anarchism inevitable. A new “balance of power between individuals and larger entities” was already emerging. He predicted with some confidence “the end of governments as we know them”. Another even more extreme cypherpunk of the libertarian Right, Jim Bell, like an inverse Leninist, thought that history might need a push. . . "

In this reading we might assign a Victor Chernov role to Eric Hughes and Julius Martov one to John Gilmore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Martov


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