XMR), on June 15, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Photo by S3studio/Getty Images) Bitcoin, once the rebel flag-bearer of the cypherpunk movement, now finds itself embraced by the institutions it ...

The basis of the cypherpunk movement underlines strong cryptography and privacy tools to protect individual rights and promote a decentralized society. It combines the word “cypher” as in encr ...

Instead, these applications primarily need to leverage the decentralized nature of the underlying blockchain for: The ...

What we get from Hill is a journey. He tells of being influenced early on by the radical ideas of Timothy May and the Cypherpunk movement, which leads, among other projects, to some early ...

Here are a few exemplary projects that exemplify this spirit: Bitcoin Ekasi stands out as a significant embodiment of the cypherpunk philosophy and Bitcoin values in Africa. Launched in 2021 in Mossel ...

Emerging in the late 1980s, the cypherpunk movement is a loosely tied group of mathematicians, computer scientists and online activists who advocate privacy through the use of strong cryptography.

She’s one of many young researchers who identify with the cypherpunk movement. “There are a lot of people like me, their main thing is academic,” Shikhelman said. “They are not the classic ...

Cypherpunk Nick Szabo is joining Samson Mow’s Jan3 — a digital infrastructure company fostering global Bitcoin (BTC) adoption — as chief scientist, the company announced on Jan. 9. Szabo’s ...

Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of ...