By Bitcoin Primitives
A discussion of all things bitcoin.
One concern I have is that the move to electronic payments will decrease personal privacy by making it easier to log and record transactions. Dossiers could be built up which would track the spending patterns of each of us. https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives https://nakamotoinstitute.org/digital-cash-and-privacy/ Satoshi...
In summary, all money mankind has ever used has been insecure in one way or another. This insecurity has been manifested in a wide variety of ways, from counterfeiting to theft, but the most pernicious of which has probably been...
The Road to Serfdom (German: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft) is a book written between 1940 and 1943 by Austrian British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, in which the author "[warns] of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government...
I will actually describe two protocols. The first one is impractical, because it makes heavy use of a synchronous and unjammable anonymous broadcast channel. However it will motivate the second, more practical protocol. Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is licensed under a...
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881–10 October 1973) was one of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century.
Here's the "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" I read at the September 1992 founding meeting. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/cyphernomicon/MFAQ https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Crypto-anarchism (or crypto-anarchy) is a form of anarchy accomplished through computer technology.[1] Crypto-anarchists employ cryptographic software to evade persecution and harassment while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect their privacy, their political freedom, and...
Peter Van Valkenburgh (born April 25th, 1985) is a Cryptolawyer and Director of Research at Coin Center and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation. [1] [4] [7] He is based in Washington D.C. [7] https://twitter.com/valkenburgh?lang=en http://www.petervv.com https://coincenter.org/peter-van-valkenburgh https://soundcloud.com/bitcoinprimitives Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported —...
Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it...
The goal of onion routing was to have a way to use the internet with as much privacy as possible, and the idea was to route traffic through multiple servers and encrypt it each step of the way. This is...
Jacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Bitcoin is a collection of concepts and technologies that form the basis of a digital money ecosystem. Units of currency called bitcoin are used to store and transmit value among participants in the bitcoin network. Excerpt from: Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas...
Bitcoin is a distributed consensus network that maintains a secure and trusted distributed ledger through a process called “proof-of-work.”
Before the 1970s, cryptography was primarily practiced in secret by military or spy agencies. But, that changed when two publications brought it into the open: the US government publication of the Data Encryption Standard and the first publicly available work on...
Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/;[1] born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the founder and director of WikiLeaks.[2] He is currently in police custody in London after having been arrested on 11 April 2019 by...
Évariste Galois (/ɡælˈwɑː/;[1] French: [evaʁist ɡalwa]; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist.
Joybubbles (May 25, 1949 – August 8, 2007), born Josef Carl Engressia, Jr. in Richmond, Virginia, United States, was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four.[1] He had absolute pitch, and was able...
