Meaning of crypto-anarchist | Babel Free

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A proponent of crypto-anarchism.

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“The crypto anarchist position is that cyberspace is on a non-stop drift towards crypto anarchy. Powerful encryption algorithms, including the Data Encryption Standard (DES), triple-DES, RSA and IDEA, are readily available at no charge […]”

“About a year ago I bought 30 Bitcoins, the online peer-to-peer crypto-currency, for about £3 each using a European website called Bitstamp.net. Bitcoins appealed to my inner crypto-anarchist and I felt they had great potential.”

“Crypto-anarchists build⟳ software – think⟳ of it as political computer code – that can protect⟳ us online. Julian Assange is a crypto-anarchist (before WikiLeaks he was an active member of the movement’s most important mailing list), and so perhaps is Edward Snowden.”

“There's a strong crypto anarchist thread running through the cryptocurrency community. What's a crypto anarchist, you ask⟳? The term was likely first coined (if you excuse⟳ the pun!) by Tim May, in his 1988 Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.”

“One of the film’s producers is Cody Wilson, a self-defined “crypto-anarchist”. His various run-ins with the law include⟳ pleading guilty to endangering a child after being brought up on charges of paying a minor for sex and a legal battle with the feds after he released blueprints online for creating a firearm by 3D printer.”

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