"To early cypherpunks, privacy wasn’t marketing. It was the foundation of financial freedom. Over a decade later, the appeal is returning for a different reason. In a world of AI-enhanced surveillance and constant data collection, anonymity is being re-framed not as secrecy, but as self-protection."
Crypto’s Anti-Surveillance Boom: Zcash, Monero and the Return of Anonymity
Privacy coins are outperforming as traders turn away from ETFs and transparent ledgers, reviving crypto’s oldest idea: digital cash that can move freely, without surveillance.
#crypto #cryptoetf #xmr
Privacy coins are outperforming as traders turn away from ETFs and transparent ledgers, reviving crypto’s oldest idea: digital cash that can move freely, without surveillance.
#crypto #cryptoetf #xmr
Crypto’s Anti-Surveillance Boom: Zcash, Monero and the Return of Anonymity
Privacy coins are outperforming as traders turn away from ETFs and transparent ledgers, reviving crypto’s oldest idea: digital cash that can move freely, without surveillance.
www.coindesk.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"To early cypherpunks, privacy wasn’t marketing. It was the foundation of financial freedom. Over a decade later, the appeal is returning for a different reason. In a world of AI-enhanced surveillance and constant data collection, anonymity is being re-framed not as secrecy, but as self-protection."
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
intro of this thing i'm working on goes over the twitter scene(s) around hte time of Tor's height / jacob applebaum
it's unfortunate so many of the cypherpunks got banned / otherwise left b/c it left a hole for Visa / life coaches to metastasize to
it's unfortunate so many of the cypherpunks got banned / otherwise left b/c it left a hole for Visa / life coaches to metastasize to
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
intro of this thing i'm working on goes over the twitter scene(s) around hte time of Tor's height / jacob applebaum
it's unfortunate so many of the cypherpunks got banned / otherwise left b/c it left a hole for Visa / life coaches to metastasize to
it's unfortunate so many of the cypherpunks got banned / otherwise left b/c it left a hole for Visa / life coaches to metastasize to
Nah, way more cypherpunks on there than here, similar to Nostr
October 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Nah, way more cypherpunks on there than here, similar to Nostr
I try not to spend my energy online being a hater, but the whole farcaster / lens potemkin crypto social stuff has deserved some dedicated hating ever since atproto showed how much better shit can be. I don't think even a dozen people on farcaster are cypherpunks
October 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I try not to spend my energy online being a hater, but the whole farcaster / lens potemkin crypto social stuff has deserved some dedicated hating ever since atproto showed how much better shit can be. I don't think even a dozen people on farcaster are cypherpunks
v funny the biggest political success cypherpunks achieved was electing this fucking guy
oh no
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
v funny the biggest political success cypherpunks achieved was electing this fucking guy
The cypherpunks were/are trying!
But… it turns out it’s *very* hard to do anything involving actual payment like that, especially without attracting an ecosystem of weird investor scam cult finance bros, like black mould on damp walls. I’m not sure tech can solve every problem. :/
But… it turns out it’s *very* hard to do anything involving actual payment like that, especially without attracting an ecosystem of weird investor scam cult finance bros, like black mould on damp walls. I’m not sure tech can solve every problem. :/
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The cypherpunks were/are trying!
But… it turns out it’s *very* hard to do anything involving actual payment like that, especially without attracting an ecosystem of weird investor scam cult finance bros, like black mould on damp walls. I’m not sure tech can solve every problem. :/
But… it turns out it’s *very* hard to do anything involving actual payment like that, especially without attracting an ecosystem of weird investor scam cult finance bros, like black mould on damp walls. I’m not sure tech can solve every problem. :/
So make that late 80s for the start. Had overlap with cypherpunks, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists.
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So make that late 80s for the start. Had overlap with cypherpunks, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists.
"if not for those damn meddling cypherpunks and their paranoid concerns (which all came true) we'd have more privacy and freedom now" is sure a Take
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"if not for those damn meddling cypherpunks and their paranoid concerns (which all came true) we'd have more privacy and freedom now" is sure a Take
It's great that instances like Blacksky or Northsky exist for minorities.
But I'm missing a home for my minority: the cypherpunks, libertarians, and voluntarists who see decentralization not as an end-goal, but as the foundation for building entirely parallel economic and social structures.
But I'm missing a home for my minority: the cypherpunks, libertarians, and voluntarists who see decentralization not as an end-goal, but as the foundation for building entirely parallel economic and social structures.
September 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's great that instances like Blacksky or Northsky exist for minorities.
But I'm missing a home for my minority: the cypherpunks, libertarians, and voluntarists who see decentralization not as an end-goal, but as the foundation for building entirely parallel economic and social structures.
But I'm missing a home for my minority: the cypherpunks, libertarians, and voluntarists who see decentralization not as an end-goal, but as the foundation for building entirely parallel economic and social structures.
Ju just said censorship-resistant stablecoins are the next frontier. If USDC keeps playing Fedcoin, cypherpunks gonna cook 💣💬
May 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ju just said censorship-resistant stablecoins are the next frontier. If USDC keeps playing Fedcoin, cypherpunks gonna cook 💣💬
cypherpunks are not the same as cyberpunks
June 8, 2023 at 6:10 AM
cypherpunks are not the same as cyberpunks
This. FTX were, quite literally, Extropia’s Children. Has anyone checked to see if his parents were on cypherpunks?
October 14, 2023 at 1:05 PM
This. FTX were, quite literally, Extropia’s Children. Has anyone checked to see if his parents were on cypherpunks?
from 1993 when crypto meant cryptography…not going to the moon
‘To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.’
https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
‘To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.’
https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
July 4, 2023 at 4:21 AM
from 1993 when crypto meant cryptography…not going to the moon
‘To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.’
https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
‘To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.’
https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
"the cypherpunks believed that together, encryption, anonymity, crypto currencies and leaking platforms would provide them the ability to re-shape the world." craig jarvis
#cypherpunk #cryptoanarchism #digitalsurveillance #digitalprivacy #cryptowars
#cypherpunk #cryptoanarchism #digitalsurveillance #digitalprivacy #cryptowars
May 31, 2024 at 7:48 AM
"the cypherpunks believed that together, encryption, anonymity, crypto currencies and leaking platforms would provide them the ability to re-shape the world." craig jarvis
#cypherpunk #cryptoanarchism #digitalsurveillance #digitalprivacy #cryptowars
#cypherpunk #cryptoanarchism #digitalsurveillance #digitalprivacy #cryptowars
Back in the 00s, one of the Chaos Computer Club crew died climbing on K2 or maybe Annapurna. Not someone I knew, think his first name was Jan, and my Cypherpunks archives would require a lot of rebuilding to find his name.
Len Sassaman knew him.
Len Sassaman knew him.
March 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Back in the 00s, one of the Chaos Computer Club crew died climbing on K2 or maybe Annapurna. Not someone I knew, think his first name was Jan, and my Cypherpunks archives would require a lot of rebuilding to find his name.
Len Sassaman knew him.
Len Sassaman knew him.
I was about to say the cypherpunks disagree but even those two manifestos are over 500 words. Not that Tim May was known for his brevity.
I’m sorry but 262 words is not a manifesto. It’s a statement. Maybe a communique. Not a manifesto.
December 11, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I was about to say the cypherpunks disagree but even those two manifestos are over 500 words. Not that Tim May was known for his brevity.
Crypto is largely a mix of cypherpunks, gambling addicts, and scammers.
The cypherpunks hate the scammers and roll our eyes at the gambling addicts just as much as the haters do, but you're going to need our help to navigate the authoritarian hellscape to come.
The cypherpunks hate the scammers and roll our eyes at the gambling addicts just as much as the haters do, but you're going to need our help to navigate the authoritarian hellscape to come.
April 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Crypto is largely a mix of cypherpunks, gambling addicts, and scammers.
The cypherpunks hate the scammers and roll our eyes at the gambling addicts just as much as the haters do, but you're going to need our help to navigate the authoritarian hellscape to come.
The cypherpunks hate the scammers and roll our eyes at the gambling addicts just as much as the haters do, but you're going to need our help to navigate the authoritarian hellscape to come.
La reine des cryptos est aujourd'hui convoitée de toutes parts, des banques aux cypherpunks 🏦 💰 👨💻
https://l.bfmtv.com/BLy5
https://l.bfmtv.com/BLy5
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
La reine des cryptos est aujourd'hui convoitée de toutes parts, des banques aux cypherpunks 🏦 💰 👨💻
https://l.bfmtv.com/BLy5
https://l.bfmtv.com/BLy5
Similarly to @dragqueen.racing, I've been around the Cypherpunks and private currency systems since before 1990, and most of the papers claims are invalid or at best highly optimistic, except the ones about making the politically-incorrect-drug trade safer and more efficient.
December 16, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Similarly to @dragqueen.racing, I've been around the Cypherpunks and private currency systems since before 1990, and most of the papers claims are invalid or at best highly optimistic, except the ones about making the politically-incorrect-drug trade safer and more efficient.
Why tf do you actually care about "chat control" ? The cypherpunks solved this with weapons grade encryption in the 70s
They can't stop you, no matter what laws they make.
They can't stop you, no matter what laws they make.
June 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Why tf do you actually care about "chat control" ? The cypherpunks solved this with weapons grade encryption in the 70s
They can't stop you, no matter what laws they make.
They can't stop you, no matter what laws they make.
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February 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Bora fazer a #cryptorave acontecer
🚨ENVIE PARA TODO MUNDO!
É hora de mobilizar ativistas, hackers, jornalistas, cypherpunks, estudantes, nerds, artistas, pessoas curiosas e interessadas em apropriar-se de práticas de segurança e de proteção de dados pessoais!
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No (and I've been around since the Cypherpunks worked on its predecessors.)
It's digital tokens, secured by math, that some people think are useful for gambling or occasionally accept in trade.
It's digital tokens, secured by math, that some people think are useful for gambling or occasionally accept in trade.
March 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
No (and I've been around since the Cypherpunks worked on its predecessors.)
It's digital tokens, secured by math, that some people think are useful for gambling or occasionally accept in trade.
It's digital tokens, secured by math, that some people think are useful for gambling or occasionally accept in trade.