It's very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly.
I'm better with code than with words though.
Satoshi Nakamoto, 11/14/2008
Where did he/she/they say that?
Satoshi wrote that in an
email from November 14th, 2008, sent by hum to the cryptography mailing list.
Other great quotes that impressed me:
If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.
"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy" --
Phil Zimmermann"Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary. It's a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations." --
Wei Dai"A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy." --
Tim May"I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines." -
Edward Snowden
