You absolutely cannot understand the history of Bitcoin and crypto without looking at the ideas behind this revolution. Ideas that are radically anarchist. A handful of developers, deeply in love with freedom, indeed stood up a few decades ago against the totalitarian temptations of modern bureaucratic states.
A Declaration of Cyberspace Independence
We are interested in a selection of extracts from the literature cypherpunk which allows you to better understand the goals of crypto-anarchists.
On February 8, 1996, shortly after the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by President Bill…
