Cypherpunks, Galt’s Gulch, And Bitcoin – OpEd

By Emile Phaneuf III*

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Cypherpunks, a group of cryptographers, mathematicians, computer scientists and activists, many of whom had libertarian (or libertarian-esque) influences, worked to bring about a better world by peaceful means through mathematics and computer code. Although the identity...