21 BTCTimothy C. May
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In plain words
Timothy 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.
Background
- Intel, senior scientist (retired 1986)
- Crypto-anarchy, anonymous communication and markets
Connections
- Eric Hughes: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
- John Gilmore: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
- Wei Dai: b-money opens with “Tim May's crypto-anarchy”
In their own words
“A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.” (1988, via personal website)
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”.
- 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 DaiWei Dai: Computer engineer, author of b-money, reference [1] of the whitepaper. Described b-money in 1998: money created by solving computational problems and kept on pseudonymous accounts. Satoshi wrote that Bitcoin “expands on your ideas into a complete working system”.
References
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto activism.net
- en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
- weidai.com weidai.com