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International Business Times
January 26, 2018
Amber Baldet, the executive director of JP Morgan's Blockchain Center of Excellence, is perhaps the most prominent cypherpunk on Wall Street. CoinDesk listed her among the world's most influential blockchain stars because her secret superpower is connecting enterprise players with hackers,ÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
January 26, 2018
World Tokenomic Forum, the leading international organization convening the world's leaders in cryptocurrency, government, capital markets, and technology, will be hosting a five-day event of formal content and informal networking for brand leaders, cypherpunks, capital providers, media, regulators,ÃÂ ...
OpenCanada
January 25, 2018
Carl Miller is currently writing his first book, 'Power,' on how power is changing in the digital age, to be published by William Heinemann in August 2018. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the UK think tank, Demos. He's written reports on conspiracy theories, digital literacy, digitalÃÂ ...
OpenCanada
January 25, 2018
The cypherpunks had long tried to create a system of 'e-cash' (that was also what Nakamoto called it). 'Bit gold' was an earlier variation, as were RPOW and b-money. But none of these attempts had ever quite been successful. In the eyes of many of the cypherpunks, money was a key battleground in theÃÂ ...
newsBTC
January 24, 2018
She recalls talking long into the night about innovation with various developers, anarchists, libertarians, entrepreneurs, and cypherpunks. She admits that buying a beer with Bitcoin isn't practical anymore but believes in the startups that are calling Berlin home today. For her, it's these companies that willÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 17, 2018
(Even if it's a bit complicated.) Advertisement. Continue reading the main story. To investigate, we went inside the newly megarich cryptocurrency community. We found a tightknit group of friends — developers, libertarians, Redditors and cypherpunks — who talk about changing the world order.
BZ Weekly
January 17, 2018
A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. CypherpunksÃÂ ...
Press Telegraph
January 16, 2018
A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. CypherpunksÃÂ ...
BZ Weekly
January 12, 2018
A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. CypherpunksÃÂ ...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
January 4, 2018
If 2017 has taught us anything, it's that the price of a commodity has a massive influence on how the world values it. As Bitcoin entered a phenomenal bull run in November, it was almost impossible not to get caught up in the hype of the ever-growing value of the cryptocurrency. The price continued to rise,ÃÂ ...
CoinDesk
December 31, 2017
But his story begins with another computer scientist and notable cypherpunk, the late Hal Finney, the recipient of bitcoin's first-ever transaction. In 2011, Finney – who unlike other jaded cypherpunks at the time was keeping an open mind to bitcoin – submitted a contest (with a 20 bitcoin prize) to a popularÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 22, 2017
Tim May is one of the founders of the libertarian cypherpunks movement - a group of people in the 1990s who were fascinated by the potential of cryptography, and laid the foundations for the creation of Bitcoin. (The bitcoin website shown on the laptop of a shop selling vinyl records that accepts bitcoins inÃÂ ...
GQ Magazine
December 16, 2017
Bitcoin came out of the “cypherpunk” movement, radicals who believe cryptocurrency can create a better world. This techno-libertarian utopian ideal still lives on in some quarters, and Banking on Bitcoin interviews many people who want to change the world—commenters describe it with terms likeÃÂ ...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
December 6, 2017
“They wanted to bring privacy-enhancing technologies into the internet itself, on top of the internet protocols and it just so happens that digital money was one of those interesting things the cypherpunks thought was important for society to have. A number of cypherpunks worked on it for decades and itÃÂ ...
BZ Weekly
December 31, 1999
A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. CypherpunksÃÂ ...
Salon
December 31, 1999
The name and spirit of CryptoPunks comes from cypherpunks, a name first given to an early '90s group cum mailing list that focused on ideas like the intersection of cryptography, privacy technology, philosophy and computer science. (Oxford Living Dictionaries now defines “cypherpunk” as “a person whoÃÂ ...
Crypto Insider
December 4, 2017
MB: Would you say Bitcoin has lost its cypherpunk appeal? SW: Fundamentally, I believe it's still cypherpunk. The value proposition is the same as it always was: censorship resistance. While there may be less of a focus on the traditional principles, that's probably because Bitcoin is now what it was ...
Business Insider
December 3, 2017
Since it was created in 2009, Bitcoin has experienced significant highs and lows. Just this week, the cryptocurrency surpassed an $11,000 evaluation for the first time in history. Bitcoin is considered the preeminent cryptocurrency in the world, but there's still plenty of mystery surrounding its creation.
Electronics360
November 30, 2017
In late 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto – an online figure whose identity has never been positively confirmed – published a white paper on a cryptography message board proposing a digital currency that synthesized ideas put forward by cypherpunks a decade before him. Nakamoto's paper first introduced the ...
CoinDesk
November 30, 2017
Blockchain coder Cody Burns wakes up in a coffin-sized hotel room in what he would later call a "questionable" part of Hong Kong. As the hotel cashier doesn't speak English (and only accepts in-person paper-based check-ins), Burns believes this hotel is "not something a westerner would stay in," but ...
Business Insider
November 29, 2017
The earliest adopters were engineers, self-described cypherpunks. Then you had a wave of kind of Silicon Valley tech elites, people who would have a successful exit, who had a high risk tolerance, and who liked taking risk on new technology. Then you had kind of an early wave of maybe people like ...
BTCMANAGER
November 29, 2017
Furthermore, many crypto-anarchists, cypherpunks, and libertarian bitcoin users prefer not to share their cryptocurrency investment income with the tax authorities for idealistic reasons. Whether you want to keep your bitcoin trading activities private for idealistic reasons or because you are worried about a ...
MyBroadband
November 28, 2017
The journey starts in the late 1990s, and really gets underway in the early 2000s – following the creation of “cypherpunk money”. Bitcoin's first block on its blockchain was released in January 2009, after which the first exchange rate for Bitcoin was established in October 2009 – with $1 equal to 2,300 BTC.
Nasdaq
November 21, 2017
The first blockchain was bitcoin's, launched in January 2009, and it captured the imaginations of cypherpunks, libertarians, software developers ...
BTCMANAGER
November 21, 2017
... “be your own bank” emerged as the most popular as it represented the anti-banking, libertarian, cypherpunk-influence of the cryptocurrency.
CoinDesk
November 19, 2017
That's enabled because bitcoin is about channeling the old cypherpunk spirit and becoming as deregulated as possible through technical means. This is a form ...
AllAfrica.com
October 23, 2017
Emerging from the online cypherpunk community, and developed in the late 2000s, cryptocurrencies are digitised coins with no physical ...
PaymentsSource
October 23, 2017
Where only a few years ago bitcoin was used by a handful of cryptoanarchists, libertarians and cypherpunks, the underlying technology is now ...
International Business Times
September 27, 2017
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Monday it will establish a new cyber unit to police legal violations from the ...
THE BUSINESS TIMES
September 3, 2017
THE rise of cypherpunks came amid the wash of anger over the financial crisis. Renegades sought a fresh brand of civil liberty through the ...
CoinDesk
July 2, 2017
Having left the heavily funded magnet for bitcoin developer talent, Blockstream, earlier this year, the self-identified "cypherpunk" last week ...
The Australian Financial Review
May 22, 2017
Cypherpunk: the roots of Julian Assange ... was Assange, whose ascent as one of the world's most foremost "cypherpunks" seemed complete.
CoinDesk
April 9, 2016
The Cypherpunks mailing list was formed at about the same time, and just a few months later, Eric Hughes published "A Cypherpunk's ...
Ars Technica
December 31, 1999
Cypherpunks have dreamed of fully decentralized electronic payment systems for decades. The potential for cryptographically secure electronic money became obvious after the invention of digital signatures using public-key cryptography in the 1970s. But efforts to create practical digital cash schemes ...
PitchBook News & Analysis
December 31, 1999
Ever since bitcoin began to generate appeal from more than just the libertarian anarchist "cypherpunk" crowd, the crypto space has been rife ...
The Merkle
September 24, 2017
Members of the cypherpunks include John Gilmore, Julian Assange, Jacob Applebaum, Adam Back, Hal Finney, and more! In 1993 EricÃÂ ...
CoinDesk
September 23, 2017
The second, a cypherpunk view, is that a powerful response to this situation, in the context of the digital world, is the creation of technologicalÃÂ ...
International Business Times
September 15, 2017
Most cryptocurrency prices temporarily plummeted this week after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraudulent bubble asÃÂ ...
International Business Times
September 8, 2017
... see some of both,” Buterin responded to one woman's question about capitalism versus the blockchain community's cypherpunk philosophy.
Nasdaq
September 4, 2017
The goal of the event is to have a true community-driven, cypherpunk conference, and our hope is that we've delivered on this." Speakers andÃÂ ...
THE BUSINESS TIMES
September 4, 2017
THE rise of cypherpunks came amid the wash of anger over the financial crisis. Renegades sought a fresh brand of civil liberty through theÃÂ ...
Bitcoin Magazine
September 1, 2017
From its cypherpunk roots and days of early adoption, the film focuses on the digital currency's rocky relationship with the banks and regulatoryÃÂ ...
Crypto Insider
August 31, 2017
An ideological debate is underway in the world of Bitcoin. From the cypherpunk movement which birthed the anonymous cryptocurrency toÃÂ ...
Tnooz
August 31, 2017
In 1998, engineer and cypherpunk Wei Dai proposed a crypto-currency system called 'b-money' in which anonymous individuals exchanged aÃÂ ...
VentureBeat
August 30, 2017
I started the largest and the oldest cypherpunk company in the world, doing pure and applied research into cypherpunk technologies. We triedÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 23, 2017
The first release came three months after Nakamoto published a white paper in a cypherpunk mailing list describing how the technology wouldÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
August 18, 2017
... same year, he produced episodes for the network where he interviewed opposition thinkers like Noam Chomsky and so-called "cypherpunks.
il Dolomiti
August 1, 2017
Ma il sistema alternativo esiste: da un lato l'asse russo-cinese, dall'altro le criptovalute e la rivoluzione che parte dal movimento Cypherpunk.
Moneycontrol.com
July 26, 2017
The digital currency soon gained acceptance among cypherpunks and soon became a value for transaction of goods. Some reports suggestÃÂ ...
CoinDesk
July 24, 2017
... look like something you might get if you locked a group of coders in a room and encouraged them to design a cypherpunk version of E-Trade.
