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‘Globalist Power Is No Longer a Moral Authority’: Amir Taaki Responds to Samourai Charges

DIGIT — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:16:06 +0000

In an era increasingly defined by surveillance and oversight, Amir Taaki stands out as a key figure in the Bitcoin movement, sounding a clarion call for crypto awareness following the indictment of Samourai Wallet. Taaki’s latest initiative, “Darkfi,” seeks to pioneer a completely anonymous platform for collaborative fundraising and distribution, posing a challenge to existing […]

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Where Are the Crypto OGs? — Taxation Is Theft, but Joe Biden Needs Ice Cream Money

DIGIT — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:34:49 +0000

Bitcoin was once viewed as a means to opt out of violent, legacy financial systems. Now, it is being co-opted by the very same, and zealous newcomers to crypto think that’s a good thing, while still giving lip service to peer-to-peer values. Ignoring the problems with fiat money, they beg political interests and bad actors […]

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Tornado in the Coal Mine — How Globalists Plan to Penalize Privacy and the Poor

DIGIT — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:00:05 +0000

No privacy. No property. No prosperity. If you follow the news, you’ve seen the trend — putting legal limits on cash transactions, the emergence of surveillance-oriented, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more recently, crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash being sanctioned by the United States Treasury. There is a new wave of propaganda increasingly demonizing […]

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Satoshi Versus the ‘Infrastructure Bill’ — Political Permission Not Required

DIGIT — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:50:32 +0000

When Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper in October 2008, it likely wasn’t with the idea that governments and central banks needed to recognize, adopt, and regulate Bitcoin for everyone’s benefit. To the contrary, if anything can be taken away from that document and the message encoded in the genesis block, it’s that centralized […]

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Timothy C. May: Libertaria in Cyberspace

DIGIT — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 13:55:48 +0000

Here are a few points about why “cyberspace,” or a computer-mediated network, is more hospitable than physical locations for the kind of “crypto-anarchy” libertarian system I’ve been describing. Several folks have commented recently about ocean-going libertarian havens, supertankers used as data havens, and so forth. In the 1970s, especially, there were several unsuccessful attempts to […]

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Eric Hughes: A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

DIGIT — Sat, 02 May 2020 23:15:16 +0000

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. 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. If two parties have […]

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The Many Facts Pointing to Wei Dai Being Satoshi

DIGIT — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:35:37 +0000

Satoshi Nakamoto has been an enigma for well over a decade and there’s been a number of suspects and self-styled Bitcoin inventors. One particular suspect is the computer engineer Wei Dai, the creator of the b-money system and the Crypto++ cryptographic library. Since the Bitcoin network was launched in 2009, a number of people have […]

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Cypherpunk Bitstream Hosts Share Importance of Payments, Dropgangs, and ‘Meatspace’ Allies

DIGIT — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:00:48 +0000

The Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast is a relatively new program that’s just released its fourth episode. The hosts, known as Frank Braun and The Real Smuggler, are so-called ‘privacy extremists’ and dyed-in-the-wool crypto-anarchists concerned with exposing cypherpunk ethos to a wider audience. Braun and Smuggler took time out recently to discuss their journeys to crypto-anarchy, the […]

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The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

DIGIT — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 03:50:14 +0000

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, […]

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Weaponized Money: Thoughts on the Creation and Control of Bitcoin

DIGIT — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 01:15:53 +0000

Some tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists believe government devised and built bitcoin as weaponized money to enslave the people. They think Big Brother made the technology to subjugate everyone, and that politicians are somehow benefiting from the technology. In an odd twist of logic, these people believe bitcoin represents a state-sponsored tool for control. Also read: Regulations […]

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