Eric Hughes: A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

Eric Hughes: A Cypherpunk's ManifestoPrivacy 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

The Many Facts Pointing to Wei Dai Being SatoshiSatoshi 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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