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2026-02-09 02:31:05 UTC

"These legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law."
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#law #civildisobedience #democracy #change

2026-02-08 08:37:13 UTC

"In a world without cash (a bearer and peer-to-peer form of money) all transactions must be necessarily intermediated by financial institutions. Intermediated transactions are by their nature subject to surveillance and control."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #surveillance #control #intermediation

2026-02-08 02:45:47 UTC

"I don't want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
— Edward Snowden (The Guardian Interview, 2013)
#surveillance #privacy #freedom

2026-02-07 16:34:11 UTC

"I never understood the classical notion of a key distribution center, which is a trusted resource that you have to share."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust

2026-02-07 08:35:29 UTC

"I'd like to think that decades from now, people will look back and see this time as the dawning of a new era of individual empowerment and freedom."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2013)
#bitcoin #freedom

2026-02-07 02:12:13 UTC

"There is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this conference room represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces."
— Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#cryptography #cypherpunk #resistance #government

2026-02-06 16:50:55 UTC

"The law enforcement folks were stuck longer in the hard-core phase, and still are, even now using Bin Laden to suggest that crypto has GONE TOO FAR, damn it."
— Steven Levy (The WELL - Crypto Discussion, 2001)
#lawenforcement #cryptography #government #terrorism

2026-02-06 08:47:08 UTC

"Somebody had to be the first one to start banging on the Berlin Wall, with a sledgehammer, in 1989. Somebody had to be the first to walk through. Somebody had to be the first to stand up and say, 'Enough!'"
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#resistance #freedom

2026-02-06 02:23:57 UTC

"Efforts to influence the government (e.g., lobbying and propaganda) are important only in so far as to delay its attempted crackdown long enough for the technology to mature and come into wide use."
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#lobbying

2026-02-05 16:54:17 UTC

"Cash is also pretty good for privacy because there's no camera that can capture every movement of a dollar bill every time it moves; it just wouldn't work."
— Peter Valkenburgh (Your Secret Right to Cash, 2017)
#cash #privacy #surveillance #technology

2026-02-05 08:49:53 UTC

"Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #politics

2026-02-05 02:24:04 UTC

"Be interested in liberty and the freedom to transact and speak to get back to the original motivations. Don't spend time trying to make government-friendly financial alternatives."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#liberty #freedom #transactions #government

2026-02-04 16:53:49 UTC

"There has never been a government that didn't sooner or later try to reduce the freedom of its subjects and gain more control over them, and there probably never will be one."
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#freedom #cypherpunk

2026-02-04 08:47:32 UTC

"Bitcoin is a tool of resistance gifted to us by Satoshi. The idea has escaped and the idea of cryptocurrency will not be stopped."
— Amir Taaki (The libbitcoin Manifesto, 2013)
#bitcoin #resistance #cryptocurrency #freedom

2026-02-04 02:22:09 UTC

"Money, like written language, was one of the most important inventions of civilization."
— Nick Szabo (Shelling Out: The Origins of Money, 2002)
#money #civilization #history

2026-02-03 16:56:47 UTC

"The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen."
— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, 2012)
#internet #surveillance #totalitarianism

2026-02-03 08:40:51 UTC

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
— Linus Torvalds (Linux Kernel Mailing List, 2000)
#code #opensource

2026-02-03 02:27:22 UTC

"Withdrawing into technology is like pulling the blankets over your head. It feels good for a while, until reality catches up. The next Clipper or Digital Telephony proposal will provide a rude awakening."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#politics #warning

2026-02-02 16:43:59 UTC

"Proprietary software is an injustice. It denies users freedom and keeps them divided and helpless."
— Richard Stallman (Free Software, Free Society, 2002)
#proprietarysoftware #freedom

2026-02-02 08:49:21 UTC

"Digital pseudonyms, the creation of persistent network personas that cannot be forged by others and yet which are unlinkable to the 'true names' of their owners, are finding major uses in ensuring free speech, in allowing controversial opinions to be aired, and in providing for economic transactions that cannot be blocked by local governments."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#freespeech #anonymity #economics

2026-02-02 02:29:43 UTC

"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word 'anarchy', in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary."
— Wei Dai (b-money proposal, 1998)
#cryptoanarchy #bmoney #governance

2026-02-01 16:34:15 UTC

"Technological ideas and technological things are not politically neutral: routinely, they have strong, built-in tendencies."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#politics

2026-02-01 08:36:21 UTC

"Cypherpunk cryptography has been described as crypto with an attitude. But it is much more than that, for, more than anything else, what the cypherpunks wanted was crypto with values."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cypherpunk #cryptography

2026-02-01 02:39:27 UTC

"The scandal isn't how they're breaking the law. The scandal is that they don't have to break the law."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #law #government #legal

2026-01-31 16:32:30 UTC

"The ecosystem is moving towards consolidation because users don't want to run their own servers."
— Moxie Marlinspike (My First Impressions of Web3, 2022)
#decentralization

2026-01-31 08:34:25 UTC

"Bulk collection, which should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #masssurveillance

2026-01-31 02:09:58 UTC

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
— John Gilmore (Time Magazine, 1993)
#censorship #internet #freedom

2026-01-30 16:43:14 UTC

"Technology has let the genie out of the bottle. Crypto anarchy is liberating individuals from coercion by their physical neighbors—who cannot know who they are on the Net—and from governments."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#cryptoanarchy #freedom #government

2026-01-30 08:42:35 UTC

"We are on a path today which, if nothing changes, will lead to a world with the potential for greater government power, intrusion, and control. We can change this; these technologies can revolutionize the relationship between individuals and organizations, putting them both on an equal footing for the first time."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#government #freedom

2026-01-30 02:21:04 UTC

"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)

2026-01-29 16:48:45 UTC

"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #selfdefense #anonymoustransactions

2026-01-29 02:13:35 UTC

"In one direction lies unprecedented scrutiny and control of people's lives; in the other, secure parity between individuals and organizations. The shape of society in the next century may depend on which approach predominates."
— David Chaum (Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete, 1985)
#privacy #surveillance

2026-01-28 16:41:03 UTC

"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker."
— Hal Finney (Cryptography Mailing List, 2008)
#bitcoin #security #proofofwork

2026-01-28 08:36:36 UTC

"You use envelopes for postal mail. You use it for love letters, business letters and your medical records. The only way to create the digital equivalent of an envelope is to encrypt."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#encryption #privacy #email #envelopes

2026-01-28 01:59:17 UTC

"Bitcoin isn't just money for the internet. It's a new form of money that is native to the internet."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin, 2014)
#bitcoin #internet #money

2026-01-27 16:34:01 UTC

"The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#government #regulation

2026-01-27 08:37:10 UTC

"Advances in information technology have made possible the rise of a truly international currency that does not depend on a central bank."
— Nick Szabo (Bit Gold, 2005)
#digitalcurrency #centralbank #international

2026-01-27 02:03:24 UTC

"Bitcoin is the most significant computer science breakthrough in the last 20 years."
— Adam Back (Conference speech, 2017)
#bitcoin #computerscience

2026-01-26 16:37:55 UTC

"What is the greatest unsolved problem in cryptography today? Lack of user awareness."
— Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004)
#cryptography

2026-01-26 08:37:14 UTC

"Mathematics is not the law."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#mathematics #law #cryptography #philosophy

2026-01-26 02:06:31 UTC

"They're abridging the freedom and privacy of all citizens—to 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."
— John Gilmore (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993)
#privacy #freedom #government #nsa #democracy

2026-01-25 16:29:15 UTC

"There is nothing quite so disempowering as a government that can read all your most intimate thoughts and correspondence."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#surveillance #government #privacy

2026-01-25 08:31:24 UTC

"The goal of electronic cash is to allow these same kinds of private transactions to take place electronically."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #privacy #transactions

2026-01-25 02:07:12 UTC

"Crypto anarchy is not just about avoiding laws. It's about making certain laws unenforceable, and hence making them obsolete."
— Tim May (Cypherpunks Mailing List, 1992)
#cryptoanarchy #law #enforcement

2026-01-24 16:28:30 UTC

"Fundamentally, I believe we will have the kind of society that most people want. If we want freedom and privacy, we must persuade others that these are worth having. There are no shortcuts."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#freedom #privacy

2026-01-24 08:30:53 UTC

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'"
— Richard Stallman (GNU Project, 1985)
#freesoftware #liberty #opensource

2026-01-24 01:53:17 UTC

"Google and Facebook are not really in the business of data – they are in the business of power."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#surveillance #power #techcompanies #data

2026-01-23 16:34:50 UTC

"Most people are unaware of how visible email is. Email could be intercepted by a lot of parties along the way, it could be captured and logged, scanned and then used years later."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#email #surveillance #privacy #interception

2026-01-23 08:34:43 UTC

"Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action."
— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, 2012)
#cryptography #nonviolence

2026-01-23 01:56:48 UTC

"That's why our primary defense isn't law, but technology."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#law #defense #wikileaks

2026-01-22 16:39:06 UTC

"Using modern methods of public-key encryption and anonymous 'digital cash,' it would be possible to make such awards in such a way so that nobody knows who is getting awarded the money, only that the award is being given."
— Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997)
#encryption #digitalcash #anonymity #privacy

2026-01-22 08:36:28 UTC

"We live in a golden age for surveillance. Everything you do can be captured."
— Jacob Appelbaum (30C3 Congress, 2013)
#surveillance #privacy

2026-01-22 02:00:33 UTC

"Cash is an escape valve in our increasingly intermediated and therefore surveilled world."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #privacy #surveillance #freedom

2026-01-21 16:55:57 UTC

"You can pay for access to a database, download a program, or have a prescription filled — without anyone being able to trace the transaction back to you."
— David Chaum (Security Without Identification, 1985)
#privacy #transactions #anonymity

2026-01-21 08:36:13 UTC

"When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2013)
#bitcoin #satoshi #history

2026-01-21 01:59:48 UTC

"The last characteristic which we note in the history of cryptography is the division between amateur and professional cryptographers. Skill in production cryptanalysis has always been heavily on the side of the professionals, but innovation, particularly in the design of new types of cryptographic systems, has come primarily from the amateurs."
— Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #innovation #amateur #freedom

2026-01-20 16:39:19 UTC

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#cyberspace #independence #government

2026-01-20 08:36:29 UTC

"The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global social network."
— fiatjaf (Nostr Protocol Documentation, 2020)
#nostr #protocol #censorshipresistance

2026-01-20 01:56:55 UTC

"Building security from day one is much easier than adding it on as an afterthought."
— Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004)
#security

2026-01-19 16:33:43 UTC

"The tech powers that be are nothing without our data."
— Carissa Véliz (Privacy is power (Aeon), 2019)
#data #power #resistance #techcompanies

2026-01-19 08:37:25 UTC

"Because cash is permissionless, it is censorship resistant."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #censorship #permissionless #freedom

2026-01-19 02:01:58 UTC

"'Swiss banks in cyberspace' will make economic transactions much more liquid and much less subject to local rules and regulations."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#digitalcash #economics #regulation #freedom

2026-01-18 16:28:20 UTC

"Pretty Good Privacy empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#pgp #privacy #empowerment

2026-01-18 08:30:21 UTC

"Because Bitcoin's DMMS is computationally, and therefore thermodynamically, very expensive, alternatives have been proposed which seek to be economically and environmentally more efficient. One popular alternative, proof-of-stake, is frequently proposed as a mechanism for a cheap distributed consensus. As argued by the author in 2014, this is simply not workable."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#bitcoin #consensus #cryptocurrency

2026-01-18 02:04:01 UTC

"If you have a certain amount of time to spend on advancing the cause of greater personal privacy, can you do it better by using the time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade your privacy?"
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#privacy #cryptography

2026-01-17 16:27:07 UTC

"Some have predicted that the initial success of electronic money may be in the form of a technically illegal 'black market' where crypto-hackers buy and sell information, using cryptography to protect against government crackdowns."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#digitalcash #cryptography #resistance

2026-01-17 08:29:41 UTC

"Perhaps we never fully understand that balance until one of those secret rights disappears without warning, because no one even knew it mattered until it was gone."
— Peter Valkenburgh (Your Secret Right to Cash, 2017)
#rights #warning #privacy #freedom

2026-01-17 01:51:21 UTC

"Privacy is the foundation that allows freedom of speech, thought, and association to thrive. Without it, these freedoms exist only on paper and can't be exercised in practice in a meaningful way."
— Zooko Wilcox (Cypherpunk Technologies Press Release, 2023)
#privacy #freespeech #freedom

2026-01-16 16:33:15 UTC

"Tracking everyone is no longer inconceivable, and is in fact happening all the time."
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#surveillance #tracking #privacy #warning

2026-01-16 08:34:16 UTC

"If you encrypted your files, then if a court wanted your files they would have to come and threaten you and you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files or not."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#encryption #privacy

2026-01-16 01:57:12 UTC

"Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries."
— Edward Snowden (Permanent Record, 2019)
#patriotism #constitution #whistleblower

2026-01-15 16:39:01 UTC

"For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2011)
#bitcoin #security #economics

2026-01-15 08:35:10 UTC

"A cashless economy is a surveillance economy."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #surveillance #privacy #economics

2026-01-15 01:55:24 UTC

"I had this view of cryptography in which the critical value of cryptography was that you didn't have to trust other people."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust #autonomy

2026-01-14 16:34:50 UTC

"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love."
— Julian Assange (State and Terrorist Conspiracies, 2006)

2026-01-14 08:34:53 UTC

"If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?"
— Moxie Marlinspike (We Should All Have Something To Hide, 2013)
#law #privacy #surveillance #government

2026-01-14 02:00:24 UTC

"I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking."
— Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2010)
#bitcoin #banking #gold

2026-01-13 16:36:05 UTC

"Anyone who says they have a system that's perfectly secure from attackers is lying."
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother, 2008)
#security

2026-01-13 08:34:55 UTC

"Public key cryptography is a revolution that puts control of privacy into the hands of the individual."
— Whitfield Diffie (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #publickey #privacy

2026-01-13 01:53:20 UTC

"I have been working on ideas to display the information in digital cash in some other way that is more esthetic. It would be nice if the display somehow only worked for correctly signed cash notes, with forged cash not displaying anything nice."
— Hal Finney (The Beauty of ECash, 1994)
#digitalcash #cryptography

2026-01-12 16:30:48 UTC

"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#cyberspace #philosophy #digitalworld

2026-01-12 08:36:35 UTC

"We need to make cryptography the solution to the problem: 'how do you make surveillance more expensive?'"
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #surveillance #resistance

2026-01-12 02:01:49 UTC

"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves."
— Aaron Swartz (Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008)
#openaccess

2026-01-11 16:28:15 UTC

"It's not data that's being exploited. It's people that are being exploited. It's not data that's being manipulated, it's you that's being manipulated."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#surveillance #privacy

2026-01-11 08:30:31 UTC

"You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts."
— John Perry Barlow (A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
#government #regulation #cyberspace

2026-01-11 02:04:59 UTC

"Strong cryptography can resist an unlimited amount of violence. No amount of coercive force will ever solve a math problem."
— Tim May (Cypherpunks Mailing List, 1993)
#cryptography #violence #mathematics

2026-01-10 16:28:07 UTC

"Instead of trying to convince our current government not to try, we'll develop the technology (e.g., remailers and ecash) that will make it impossible for the government to succeed."
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#ecash #remailers

2026-01-10 08:30:03 UTC

"I am very concerned that large transaction systems are being designed with no regard for privacy. Once in place they could lead to a world in which all transactions are tracked."
— David Chaum (Communications of the ACM, 1985)
#privacy #surveillance #transactions

2026-01-10 01:52:41 UTC

"The cypherpunks were troublemakers: controversial, radical, unrelenting, but also practical. They made things."
— Jamie Bartlett (Cypherpunks Write Code, American Scientist)
#cypherpunk #code

2026-01-09 16:32:21 UTC

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security

2026-01-09 08:34:36 UTC

"Bitcoin is not just a currency. It's a platform for trust."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (The Internet of Money, 2016)
#bitcoin #trust

2026-01-09 01:56:39 UTC

"Truth happens. We will succeed. Don't wait around for others to take action. We must dive head first without regard for consequences, and break the inertia of passivity."
— Amir Taaki (The libbitcoin Manifesto, 2013)
#resistance #freedom

2026-01-08 16:33:56 UTC

"It is important to realize that while distributed consensus is a hard problem, ordinary consensus is much easier and better studied, and can be solved some trillions of times more efficiently by use of trusted identifiable signing parties. Therefore, cryptocurrencies which compromise by introducing trusted parties, even under limited circumstances, should consider whether their new trust model is one for which consensus is easily achieved by some other mechanism."
— Andrew Poelstra (On Stake and Consensus, 2015)
#consensus #trust #cryptocurrency #bitcoin

2026-01-08 08:34:34 UTC

"Security is a process, not a product."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security

2026-01-08 01:55:37 UTC

"I've noticed that cryptographic graybeards (I was in my mid 50's) tend to get cynical. I was more idealistic; I have always loved crypto, the mystery and the paradox of it."
— Hal Finney (Bitcoin and Me, 2013)
#cryptography #cypherpunk

2026-01-07 16:34:42 UTC

"I believed in the idea of giving people the freedom to buy and sell and connect with each other without the all-seeing eye of government watching every move."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #privacy

2026-01-07 08:34:50 UTC

"WE STAND TODAY on the brink of a revolution in cryptography."
— Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #revolution #privacy #publickey

2026-01-07 01:55:24 UTC

"Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and it is necessary for an open society."
— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)
#cash #privacy #autonomy #opensociety

2026-01-06 16:33:08 UTC

"Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #secrecy

2026-01-06 08:35:21 UTC

"A smart contract is a set of promises, specified in digital form, including protocols within which the parties perform on these promises."
— Nick Szabo (Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets, 1996)
#smartcontracts #digital #protocols