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- text: "Activism.net: Cypherpunks"
url: "https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/"
url: "https://cryptoanarchywiki.github.io"
url: "https://cryptoanarchy.wiki"
baseurl: ""
per_page: 20
markdown: kramdown

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## Why I made this site
I've been a libertarian for most of my adult life (experiencing an abrupt coversion from the obligatory teenage Marxism at age 20) and for most of that I've been fascinated with technology's capacity to both increase or decrease our liberty. I was somewhat frustrated by how few practical options there really were for increasing our liberty. Assuming you were unwilling to go live, unabomber-style, in the wilderness, the only options seemed to be to horde gold, and/or try to pursuade those around you to adopt a more libertarian approach to politics. That was very unsatisfying to me, and it seemd like (especially in the UK) there was little hope of any real change in the prevailing view of politics.
I've been a libertarian for most of my adult life (experiencing an abrupt coversion from the obligatory teenage Marxism at age 20) and for most of that I've been fascinated with technology's capacity to both increase or decrease our liberty. I was somewhat frustrated by how few practical options there really were for increasing our liberty. Assuming you were unwilling to go live, unabomber-style, in the wilderness, the only options seemed to be to horde gold, and/or try to pursuade those around you to adopt a more libertarian approach to politics. That was very unsatisfying to me, and it seemed like (especially in the UK) there was little hope of any real change in the prevailing view of politics.
I can't remember whether I first became aware of the cypherpunk movement before or after I heard about bitcoin. I can remember that learning about Bitcoin really was a revelation to me. The possibilities for free-exchange-minded people to seceed and form their own economies and financial systems without actually retiring from civilisation itself was something so new and revolutionary. And what's more, if care was taken, these new communities and economies would be outside of the state's ability to shut them down or take their cut.
I can't remember whether I first became aware of the cypherpunk movement before or after I heard about Bitcoin. I *can* remember that learning about Bitcoin really was a revelation to me. The possibilities for free-exchange-minded people to seceed and form their own economies and financial systems without actually retiring from civilisation itself was something so new and revolutionary. And what's more, if care was taken, these new communities and economies would be outside of the state's ability to shut them down or take their cut.
After that I was hooked, and I spent a lot of the next year learning everything I could about the technology and the ideological movement/community it had sprung from: the Cypherpunks Mailing List. I installed Tor for the first time so that I could view the original incarnation of the Silk Road. Sadly, I never had the courage to actually order something from there and have it delivered to my house, but just the fact that I _could_ blew my mind.
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+ The Circle-A Anarchism Symbol
+ The Dark Wallet Logo
The circle-A logo is by far the oldest and most recognisable anarchist symbol and would in theory be ideal. One of the main problems with its use however in this case is that the crypto-anarchist tradition has much stronger links with the american-style libertarian movement than it does with radical left-wing anarchism. Crypto-anarchism is not really an anti-capitalist ideology (in so far as the "capitalism" is not state-colluding croney capitalism). Using this symbols lacks any differentiation from other brands of anarchism, from which crypto-anarchism is very different.
The circle-A logo is by far the oldest and most recognisable anarchist symbol and would in theory be ideal. One of the main problems with its use however in this case is that the crypto-anarchist tradition has much stronger links with the American-tradition libertarian movement than it does with radical left-wing anarchism. Crypto-anarchism is not really an anti-capitalist ideology (in so far as the "capitalism" is not state-colluding croney capitalism). Using this symbols lacks any differentiation from other brands of anarchism, from which crypto-anarchism is very different.
The Dark Wallet logo I actually personally think is a perfect symbol for the Crypto-Anarchist movement: its symbolism (an inverted *all-seeing* eye) perfectly captures what cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists want to achieve. If this site gains a decent size audience, I will probably write a blog post arguing for adoption of this symbol as the main symbol used to represent "Crypto-Anarchy" the ideology. Some communities have already begun using it in this way. [/r/anarcho_capitalism](https://reddit.com/r/anarcho_capitalism) has used the symbol for their "crypto-anarchist" flare for years. However, as of right now, it is primarily the symbol of an abandoned software project.