RT Biggus Dawgus (@LFBSkee)I’m thankful for the cypherpunk OGs: Wei Dai, Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4, Adam Back @adam3us, and Hal Finney, who spent years hammering out the ideas that made this possible.I’m thankful Satoshi took their work, put it all together with ruthless clarity, and actually shipped sound money.I’m thankful Andreas @aantonop and Davinci Jeremie @Davincij15 were out there teaching anyone who’d listen (including me) back when almost nobody cared.I’m thankful the regulators were too busy and too ...

this might also be a three-legged stool thingwhere you need all three for "crypto" to workI do fear that most chains have fixated heavily on the casino and commerical side and have neglected the cypherpunk sideI don't have influence over other chains, but I do know I can make change on Solanaso we will make Solana much more cypherpunk going forward ...

RT JAN3 (@JAN3com)Resurfacing cypherpunk @NickSzabo4’s take on #Bitcoin’s origins from a 2022 panel at @LuganoPlanB, highlighting what mattered most to them at the time: privacy.Ironically, Bitcoin surprised cypherpunks by lacking privacy, yet it excelled as decentralized money and ultimately became a successful project.Watch the clip. 👇 ...

Reminder that Peter Thiel is, to put it mildly, not a cypherpunk https://t.co/aZQ1AUUCOb ...