What We Can Learn from Crypto’s Anti-Hero
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Reckoning with the talented and terrible Timothy May, the original crypto anarchist“The house of Cypherpunks has many rooms.”–Timothy MayLast month, Timothy May, the incendiary co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list and author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, died, leaving behind a complicated legacy for the cryptosphere.May kickstarted the Cypherpunk movement in the late 1980s, clearing the ground for the crypto surge today. The Cypherpunks mailing list was a forum for cryptographic pioneers like Adam Back (hashcash) and Nick Szabo (smart contracts) to talk shop, and it laid out many of the functions and protocols that would underlie Satoshi Nakamoto’s #bitcoin solution in 2008.But in later years, May alienated himself from the community and close allies. His bigoted comments and (...)
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