Few know that in 1997, the NSA classified strong cryptography as a weapon under US law, restricting its export like missiles or nukes.
Cypherpunks fought back, printing PGP source code in books and exporting it as free speech. That battle paved the way for Bitcoin’s uncensorable nature today.
Without them, we’d still be living in a financial panopticon.
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Carl Menger
• “Value does not exist outside of man's consciousness.”
Ludwig von Mises
• "The economy is not about things or material objects; it is about men, their actions and their decisions."
• "State intervention always leads to further interventions until the complete socialization of the economy."
Friedrich Hayek
• “The use of knowledge in society is the central problem of the economy.”
Murray Rothbard
• “Freedom is indivisible. You can't give a little without losing it all.”
• "The government is the last legalized criminal organization."
These quotations represent well the fundamental principles of the Austrian School: the subjectivism of value, the role of human action, the criticism of state intervention and the defense of the free market.