2012-06-12 The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks, Part 2

[apetersson]

With Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQghUChYtk

The discussion ist for a large parts about the dominance of the payments industry.

at 8:05 [...] just the same as the architecture of the financial system. and what the Cypherpunks wanted to do was to create systems where we could compensate each other in a truly free way where it was not possible to interfere - and with financial issues it is the most dangerous thing to be working on. I mean there is a reason the creator of Bitcoin did so anonymously.

[apetersson]

this show was also mentioned here at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87286.0

[molecular]

...isn't actually the freedom and the privacy of the economic interactions more important than the freedom of speech?

wow!