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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by VR meetup organizer Udi Wertheimer to talk about how bitcoin (BTC) fits into the broader cypherpunk movement.
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Cypherpunk is one of the first public firms in the world to ever invest in Bitcoin and it opted to sell 100% of its crypto by June 2022.
2022-8-10 21:00 | |
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"It's hard to make complex changes to Bitcoin's base layer," said Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream and a cypherpunk. Back, who appeared on the latest edition of Citizen Bitcoin Podcast, said that sinThe post Bitcoin scalability: What's keeping sidechains from mass adoption? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-23 16:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency lets modern-day witches transact beyond the grasp of restrictive e-commerce platforms.
2020-2-10 13:00 | |
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According to cypherpunk and bitcoin contributor, Adam Back, Hal Finney's $10 million price point for bitcoin isn't too far fetched. The post Adam Back: $10 Million Bitcoin Prediction Is ‘Closer Than It Sounds’ appeared first on CCN.com
2020-1-14 20:00 | |
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The cypherpunks, a ragtag group of tech tinkerers, cryptographers, and privacy advocates, were obscure in their 1990s heyday. And it would have remained that way in perpetuity were it not for a certain Satoshi Nakamoto launching a digital currency in 2009 encapsulating their core beliefs.
2020-1-3 04:02 | |
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Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create a compelling picture that he […] The post Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-1-2 16:50 | |
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Financial cryptographer. Cypherpunk. Inventor of Ricardian contracts and early utilizer of triple-entry accounting systems, which would later be exemplified in Bitcoin. Ian Grigg may have claimed that Satoshi was a team effort and is now dead, only living on in bitcoiners everywhere, but some seem to think it’s him.
2019-12-20 20:00 | |
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Keeping in the cypherpunk spirit, Square Crypto has issued a grant to pseudonymous developer ZmnSCPxj for Lightning and bitcoin research.
2019-12-12 22:15 | |
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Nick Szabo is something of a legend in the crypto space, and for a good many reasons. Not least of which are his contributions to the development of Bitcoin, his early communications as a cypherpunk, and his continued influential input in economic, philosophical, political and crypto circles since.
2019-11-27 18:28 | |
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Best practices aren’t very cypherpunk, but they might help adoption.
The post Do Bitcoin Companies Need a Code of Conduct? appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-11-26 21:41 | |
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The Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast hosted by cryptoanarchists @thefrankbraun and @TheRealSmuggler has just released its second episode. The show compassionately reaches out to those listeners tired of the coercive “statist-quo” and explores how anyone can use cryptographic technology and philosophy to reclaim the vital and precious privacy hijacked by an ever-expanding surveillance state.
2019-11-22 09:32 | |
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The privacy-focused BTC wallet Wasabi has recently raised its first equity investment ever. The CEO of Cypherpunk Holdings, Dominic Frisby, has recently affirmed that his company invested $337,500 USD in the Bitcoin wallet, which would put its valuation at around $7.
2019-11-22 00:52 | |
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Cypherpunk, a company investing in technologies and protocols that enhance privacy, announced today that it has completed an equity investment in zkSnacks, whose products include the bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet.
2019-11-21 21:08 | |
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The privacy-centric Wasabi Wallet, launched by zkSNACKs in 2018, just raised its first equity investment from Cypherpunk Holdings, a publicly-traded Canadian fund.
2019-11-22 17:00 | |
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The identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder is the subject of endless and dedicated speculation among the hardcore crypto crowd, and for good reason: the mystery truly is enticing. While the oft-cited candidates are many, there’s something special about avid runner, cypherpunk and early Bitcoin contributor Harold Thomas Finney II, better known simply as Hal, that […] The post The Many Facts Pointing to Hal Being Satoshi appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-11-20 14:45 | |
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On the eve of Halloween, the Bitcoin whitepaper turned 11 years old. Quite how a once flippantly ridiculed cypherpunk's curio journeyed to spook the establishment into embarking on a digital reformation of the monetary system is beyond bewildering.
2019-11-10 18:47 | |
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It’s Halloween today. It’s also the day when anonymous cypherpunk, Satoshi Nakamoto presented the idea of Bitcoin to the world, 11 years ago. The whitepaper released since then has become a model for censorship-resistant finance.
2019-10-31 22:16 | |
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Бывший исполнительный директор Bitcoin Foundation Брюс Фентон запустил брокер-дилера Watchdog Capital в США. Компания считает биткоин деньгами и уважает ценности шифропанков. Today we launch Watchdog Capital, an SEC registered broker dealer and member of FINRA.
2019-10-31 20:40 | |
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In this video interview, Team Satoshi creator and leader Vitus Zeller talks about promoting Bitcoin and cypherpunk ideals through athletic events. The post Video: Vitus Zeller on Team Satoshi and Bitcoin Advocacy Through Sports appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-11-1 18:41 | |
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In this video interview, HodlHodl CEO Max Keidun talks about open sourcing the exchange and its API and how that aligns with a cypherpunk vision. The post Video Interview: Max Keidun on Open Sourcing Hodl Hodl appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-2 22:57 | |
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In an age where Google, Facebook and the NSA are known to be harvesting as much as our communications as they can, many people are concerned that online privacy now only exists in the history books.
2019-9-11 05:01 | |
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When a little known cypherpunk project called Bitcoin launched in 2009, few expected that cryptocurrency would become a household name. The blockchain market exploded onto the global scene in 2017, reaching a fever pitch in December and peaking at over […] The post The Evolution of Fundraising and Investments in the Blockchain Space appeared first on CoinMarketCap.
2019-8-30 20:20 | |
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It has been made clear that the current POTUS is not a fan of Bitcoin however his tenure will not be forever. A pro-crypto United States president would likely ease the regulatory pain that is hampering the industry in the US.
2019-8-25 13:00 | |
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A forum post from the early days of Bitcoin is going viral on Crypto Twitter. The post was from Harold Thomas Finney, who was an early Bitcoin contributor and also the one who received the first bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonymous and mysterious creator of the Bitcoin software. A cypherpunk, Finney had said at […]
2019-8-24 17:10 | |
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Cypherpunk and CEO of Metal Pay, Marshall Hayner, thinks regulation is coming one way or another and that the best thing to do is keep an open mind and get educated.
2019-7-31 05:00 | |
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Craig Wright is determined to make the world accept him as the creator of Bitcoin and the man behind the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. But instead of signing the genesis block (something the community has.
2019-6-9 00:59 | |
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By CCN: The man who claims to be Bitcoin’s inventor wants to rewrite history by erasing the cryptocurrency’s cypherpunk past. Writing in yet another blistering blog post, Craig Wright claimed he left the cypherpunk movement in the 1990s after growing tired of the antics of Julian Assange.
2019-6-8 22:20 | |
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The cryptocurrency community on Twitter is usually pretty vocal about any opinion that they have, but Jameson Lopp has issued a challenge. According to The Next Web’s Hard Fork, the cypherpunk decided to challenge the community with a task – explain Bitcoin with the 280 characters that Twitter allots to users. Explain Bitcoin as completely […]
2019-6-4 00:30 | |
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Self-professed cypherpunk Jameson Lopp has set the cryptocurrency community a seemingly impossible task: efficiently explain Bitcoin in less than 280 characters. A global, neutral payment network that allows anyone on earth to transact a huge or tiny amount of value with anyone else within minutes, without needing to ask permission from a government, without disclosing one’s personal information, and without the possibility of censorship.
2019-6-3 14:33 | |
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain were built to usurp centralized authorities like governments and banks. And then came Ripple, the digital asset that throws the cypherpunk ideology straight out the window.
2019-5-3 17:16 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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Casa has just rolled out radio wave-screening "Faraday bags" as the ultimate cypherpunk accessory for bitcoin hardware wallets.
2019-3-20 17:00 | |
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Lingerie purchasing as a bitcoin use case is much less far-fetched than you might imagine.
2019-2-6 15:00 | |
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Bitcoin is inherently a cypherpunk, anti-establishment movement. From day one, this whole movement around Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of digital money has been single-handedly pushed by the zany, outcasts, and decentralists that push their beliefs with a religious fervor.
2019-2-1 16:00 | |
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AI specialist Dr. Rand Hindi conducted a presentation on cypherpunk history and data privacy in St. Moritz, Switzerland, at the Crypto Finance conference. At the beginning of the talk, he asked the audience to unlock their smartphones and pass them to their neighbors.
2019-1-25 21:47 | |
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Elixxir has outlined the beginning of its BetaNode selection process, which kicks off on January 21, 2019, with the opening of its applications. Elixxir According to the January 17, 2019 press release, full-stack blockchain Elixxir has begun its BetaNode selection process.
2019-1-19 23:00 | |
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On January 11, ten years ago, Hal Finney wrote a tweet about Bitcoin. Running bitcoin — halfin (@halfin) January 11, 2009 The late cypherpunk and cryptographer had just become the first person to receive the digital currency from its creator Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
2019-1-11 06:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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According to software engineer Jameson Lopp, Bitcoin could make the transition to an anarcho-capitalist society possible
2019-1-1 00:50 | |
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In this series we look past 2020 to what the future holds for crypto beyond fiat-pegged stable coins and speculative prices to the original ethos of crypto and the cypherpunk movement - to redesign our economic, social, political and environmental structures .
2018-12-19 01:00 | |
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On December 15, 2018, one of the co-founders of the Cypherpunk movement and prominent computer scientist Timothy C. May passed away at the age of 67. Among numerous other achievements, May was primarily responsible for shaping the conversation around the economic and legal freedoms implied by modern cryptography.
2018-12-18 00:00 | |
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Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin (BTC) as an alternative to centralized payments, to exist independently from the flawed banks. As central banks tighten the valves of monetary policies, this aspect of cryptocurrency may come back to the foreground.
2018-12-10 20:37 | |
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Latest Bitcoin News Thing is, Bitcoin is just more than a medium of exchange. In 10 short years, the world’s most valuable coin has evolved from being a Cypherpunk thing to a medium of exchange and now it is a solid store of value.
2018-11-14 05:00 | |
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David Chaum, the cryptographer credited with starting the cypherpunk movement in the 1980s and launching eCash, an early form of virtual money in the 1990s, thinks people are taking financial privacy a lot more seriously these days.
2018-10-24 18:02 | |
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As cryptocurrency falls further into the hands of the mainstream, it falls further away from its creators, the cypherpunks. Earlier today, CoinDesk published an in-depth interview with Timothy May, one of the founding members of the cypherpunk movement.
2018-10-19 14:14 | |
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What are cypherpunk legend Timothy May's thoughts on the bitcoin white paper? Keep the text but throw out the hanger-ons that have came with it.
2018-10-19 07:00 | |
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What are cypherpunk legend Timothy May's thoughts on the bitcoin white paper? Keep the text but throw out the hanger-ons that have came with it.
2018-10-19 07:00 | |
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The following op-ed on crypto privacy was written by Reuben Yap. He is the Chief Operations Officer of Zcoin. A corporate lawyer for ten years, specializing in institutional frameworks, Reuben founded one of SE Asia’s top VPN companies, bolehvpn.
2018-10-18 15:30 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by VR meetup organizer Udi Wertheimer to talk about how bitcoin (BTC) fits into the broader cypherpunk movement.
In this wide-ranging conversation, CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox discuss what crypto can learn from technology successes and failures in the '80s and '90s.