21 BTCJohn Gilmore
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In plain words
John 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.
Background
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (co-founder)
What is not known
No X account shown: @johngilmore on X belongs to a photographer in Seattle, not to him.
Connections
- Timothy C. May: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
- Eric Hughes: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
See also
- 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.
- 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”.
References
- toad.com toad.com
- en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org