crypto-anarchist
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Etymology edit
crypto- + anarchist, popularized by Timothy C. May in The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988).
Noun edit
crypto-anarchist (plural crypto-anarchists)
- A proponent of crypto-anarchism.
- Coordinate term: cypherpunk
- 2003, Brian D. Loader, editor, The Governance of Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 176:
- The crypto anarchist position is that cyberspace is on a non-stop drift towards crypto anarchy. Powerful encryption algorithms, including the Data Encryption Standard (DES), triple-DES, RSA and IDEA, are readily available at no charge […]
- 2013 July 1, Kate Craig-Wood, “Bitcoin: how I made a virtual fortune”, in The Guardian[1]:
- About a year ago I bought 30 Bitcoins, the online peer-to-peer crypto-currency, for about £3 each using a European website called Bitstamp.net. Bitcoins appealed to my inner crypto-anarchist and I felt they had great potential.
- 2017 June 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters”, in The Observer[2]:
- Crypto-anarchists build software – think of it as political computer code – that can protect us online. Julian Assange is a crypto-anarchist (before WikiLeaks he was an active member of the movement’s most important mailing list), and so perhaps is Edward Snowden.
- 2019, Tyler Bain, Peter Kent, Cryptocurrency Mining For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 255:
- There's a strong crypto anarchist thread running through the cryptocurrency community. What's a crypto anarchist, you ask? The term was likely first coined (if you excuse the pun!) by Tim May, in his 1988 Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.
- 2020 May 1, Jessa Crispin, “'Incel' culture has sparked panic and pity – but little thoughtful conversation”, in The Guardian[3]:
- One of the film’s producers is Cody Wilson, a self-defined “crypto-anarchist”. His various run-ins with the law include pleading guilty to endangering a child after being brought up on charges of paying a minor for sex and a legal battle with the feds after he released blueprints online for creating a firearm by 3D printer.
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proponent of crypto-anarchism
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