[2017-02-25] How One of the Original Cypherpunks Recalls Bitcoin’s Inception

[TwoTimes]

In the early nineties, a group of cryptography experts called ‘cypherpunks’ gave life to ideas like digital currency and promoting freedom through the use of technology. Timothy C. May was one of these visionaries, and he predicted the rise of encrypted messaging, cryptocurrencies, and electronic contracts.

Just recently the hacker house Paralelní Polis in Prague released a keynote talk by May. His speech, called “Thirty Years of Crypto Anarchy”, saw the former Intel engineer describe the early days of the cypherpunk movement. The group of privacy advocates and May started organizing in Silicon Valley, as well as online, using the cypherpunk electronic mailing list. Cypherpunks from San Francisco include Eric Hughes, John Gilmore, St. Jude and others.

“[Bitcoin] is yet another example of something thrust out there into the world and was in widespread use before there was any time to stop it,”

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[Minecache]

Too bad there are actors who are unknowingly destroying it from the inside out via politics and greed. Electronic contracts are surely the next step. Are there any plans for enabling Bitcoin scripting in the roadmap?

The Bitcoin roadmap doesn't even include block size scaling which it desperately needs.

[johnny11011]

There will always be businesses and even individuals who are willing to trade their freedom for security. That's life as a human. The great thing about bitcoin is that the core protocol itself doesn't even know how to surrender... No matter how they take over the onramps and no matter how many users worship the local authorities and taxing agents, bitcoin itself can always be used as uncensorable money from wallet to wallet.