"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word 'anarchy', in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary." — Wei Dai (b-money proposal, 1998) #cryptoanarchy #bmoney #governance

"Technological ideas and technological things are not politically neutral: routinely, they have strong, built-in tendencies." — Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015) #politics

"Cypherpunk cryptography has been described as crypto with an attitude. But it is much more than that, for, more than anything else, what the cypherpunks wanted was crypto with values." — Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015) #cypherpunk #cryptography

"The scandal isn't how they're breaking the law. The scandal is that they don't have to break the law." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019) #surveillance #law #government #legal

"The ecosystem is moving towards consolidation because users don't want to run their own servers." — Moxie Marlinspike (My First Impressions of Web3, 2022) #decentralization

"Bulk collection, which should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019) #surveillance #masssurveillance

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John Gilmore (Time Magazine, 1993) #censorship #internet #freedom

"Technology has let the genie out of the bottle. Crypto anarchy is liberating individuals from coercion by their physical neighbors—who cannot know who they are on the Net—and from governments." — Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994) #cryptoanarchy #freedom #government

"We are on a path today which, if nothing changes, will lead to a world with the potential for greater government power, intrusion, and control. We can change this; these technologies can revolutionize the relationship between individuals and organizations, putting them both on an equal footing for the first time." — Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993) #government #freedom

"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)

"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place." — Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993) #privacy #selfdefense #anonymoustransactions

"How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?" — Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997) #freedom #internet #cypherpunk

"In one direction lies unprecedented scrutiny and control of people's lives; in the other, secure parity between individuals and organizations. The shape of society in the next century may depend on which approach predominates." — David Chaum (Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete, 1985) #privacy #surveillance

"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker." — Hal Finney (Cryptography Mailing List, 2008) #bitcoin #security #proofofwork

"You use envelopes for postal mail. You use it for love letters, business letters and your medical records. The only way to create the digital equivalent of an envelope is to encrypt." — Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003) #encryption #privacy #email #envelopes

"Bitcoin isn't just money for the internet. It's a new form of money that is native to the internet." — Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin, 2014) #bitcoin #internet #money

"The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration." — Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988) #government #regulation

"Advances in information technology have made possible the rise of a truly international currency that does not depend on a central bank." — Nick Szabo (Bit Gold, 2005) #digitalcurrency #centralbank #international

"Bitcoin is the most significant computer science breakthrough in the last 20 years." — Adam Back (Conference speech, 2017) #bitcoin #computerscience

"What is the greatest unsolved problem in cryptography today? Lack of user awareness." — Martin Hellman (Charles Babbage Institute Oral History, 2004) #cryptography