In one of his rare lucid intervals, Assmange said recently , " Cypherpunks are about privacy for the poor and transparency for the rich ". Just as modern cryptography is used for privacy AND authentication which may be public. Sear " The Blockchain as public ledger ".
Those trying to assert cypherpunks are just about crypto have a Mongo problem since he asserted this list was designed to discuss the socio-economic ie POLITICAL effects of ubiquitous networked encryption. Those wanting to discuss this ' scaffolding ' in detail were cordially invited to hive off - then the CODERPUNKS list was started. If you are convinced of the cowardly traitors, Eric Hughes, assertions in a narrow sense then you have a serious problem with this list. Btw, its also CRYPTO-ANARCHY, not crypto-privacy or just crypto alone as some sort of apolitical abstraction. Needless to say crypto-currency is not crypto-anarchy either. I don't know how many people that come here read the archives. It seems - not many. Meh. Finally the ancap, rightwing libertarian distro of cypherpunk politics revolves around cyber-liberty NOT crypto-anarchy. As Rothbard says at Mises libertarians like this can never be anarchists.
