21 BTCA Cypherpunk's Manifesto
In plain words
9 Mar 1993: Eric Hughes, co-founder of the cypherpunks mailing list, publishes the manifesto that ends with the motto “Cypherpunks write code”.
What happened
Eric Hughes, co-founder of the cypherpunks mailing list, publishes the manifesto that ends with the motto “Cypherpunks write code”.
“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.”
People: Eric Hughes, Timothy C. May, John Gilmore.
See also
- Eric HughesEric Hughes: Mathematician and programmer; co-founder of the cypherpunks, author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. Founded and ran the cypherpunks mailing list, hosted the first anonymous remailer and coined the motto “Cypherpunks write code”.
- Timothy C. MayTimothy C. May: Writer and Intel scientist; founder of crypto-anarchism, co-founder of the cypherpunks. Wrote The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto in 1988 and co-founded the cypherpunks mailing list in 1992 with Eric Hughes and John Gilmore. Wei Dai's b-money opens with his name.
- John GilmoreJohn Gilmore: Co-founder of the EFF and of the cypherpunks. Co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the cypherpunks movement. The list ran at cypherpunks@toad.com, his domain: Adam Back's 1997 Hashcash announcement went to that address.
- Wei Dai announces b-money27 Nov 1998: On the cypherpunks list Wei Dai points to his description of b-money: money created by solving computational problems, with accounts kept by pseudonymous participants.
- Hashcash is announced28 Mar 1997: Adam Back announces “hash cash postage” on the cypherpunks list: a sender proves work by finding a partial SHA-1 collision, which is costly to make and instant to check.
- Eric HughesEric Hughes: Mathematician and programmer; co-founder of the cypherpunks, author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. Founded and ran the cypherpunks mailing list, hosted the first anonymous remailer and coined the motto “Cypherpunks write code”.
- Timothy C. MayTimothy C. May: Writer and Intel scientist; founder of crypto-anarchism, co-founder of the cypherpunks. Wrote The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto in 1988 and co-founded the cypherpunks mailing list in 1992 with Eric Hughes and John Gilmore. Wei Dai's b-money opens with his name.
References
- activism.net activism.net