diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index 1215de4..9332135 100644 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ collections: people: type: subsection output: true + organisations: + type: subsection + output: true social: - icon: fa-twitter diff --git a/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md b/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md index 8550673..6aa5df1 100644 --- a/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md +++ b/_events/90s-crypto-wars.md @@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ From wikipedia: > The Crypto Wars is an unofficial name for the U.S. and allied governments' attempts to limit the public's and foreign nations' access to cryptography strong enough to resist decryption by national intelligence agencies (especially USA's NSA). -[Phil Zimmermann](/people/phil_zimmermann.md) was a key player in this period. The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses. The US government at this time was keen to avoid strong crypto falling into the hands of civilians and foreign governments. At this time the US government was also pushing for specialised key-escrowed chips that would perform encryption, but make the plaintext readable to NSA if necessary. This was rightly considered a gross violation of privacy, rights, and a huge security hole by the cypherpunks. +[Phil Zimmermann](/people/phil-zimmermann) was a key player in this period. The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses. The US government at this time was keen to avoid strong crypto falling into the hands of civilians and foreign governments. At this time the US government was also pushing for specialised key-escrowed chips that would perform encryption, but make the plaintext readable to NSA if necessary. This was rightly considered a gross violation of privacy, rights, and a huge security hole by the cypherpunks. -Since Public Key encryption was considered a munition, t-shirts like this (containing the PGP sourcecode) were created as a form of civil disobedience using [Adam Back](/people/adam_back.md)'s three-line Perl implementation of PGP: +Since Public Key encryption was considered a munition, t-shirts like this (containing the PGP sourcecode) were created as a form of civil disobedience using [Adam Back](/people/adam-back)'s three-line Perl implementation of PGP: ![Image of PGP Tshirt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munitions_T-shirt_%28front%29.jpg) ## Links -* [Phil Zimmermann's entry in this repository](/people/phil_zimmermann.md) +* [Phil Zimmermann's entry in this repository](/people/phil-zimmermann) * [Phil Zimmermann on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann) * [Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) * 01-Jan-1993 Wired Magazine - [Crypto Rebels](https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/) by Steven Levy diff --git a/_events/bitcoin-scaling.md b/_events/bitcoin-scaling.md index ddcf1ae..63dd301 100644 --- a/_events/bitcoin-scaling.md +++ b/_events/bitcoin-scaling.md @@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ _placeholder_ ## Links * 05-Mar-2015 SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar - [SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVzw912wPo) by Joseph Poon & Thaddeus Dryja -* 31-Aug-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB94 – Gavin Andresen: On The Blocksize And Bitcoin's Governance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l11q9hsJM) with [Gavin Andresen](/people/gavin_andresen.md) -* 02-Sep-2015 CoinJournal.net - [Who Asked Wlad? What Does Bitcoin’s Lead Developer Say About The Scaling Debate?](https://coinjournal.net/who-asked-wlad-what-does-bitcoins-lead-developer-say-about-scaling-debate-exclusive/) by Ian Demartino with [Wladimir J. Van Der Laan](/people/wladimir_j_van_der_laan.md) -* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Top Bitcoin Core Dev Greg Maxwell DevCore: Must watch talk on mining, block size, and more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RguZ0_nmSPw) with [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory_maxwell.md) +* 31-Aug-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB94 – Gavin Andresen: On The Blocksize And Bitcoin's Governance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l11q9hsJM) with [Gavin Andresen](/people/gavin-andresen) +* 02-Sep-2015 CoinJournal.net - [Who Asked Wlad? What Does Bitcoin’s Lead Developer Say About The Scaling Debate?](https://coinjournal.net/who-asked-wlad-what-does-bitcoins-lead-developer-say-about-scaling-debate-exclusive/) by Ian Demartino with [Wladimir J. Van Der Laan](/people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan) +* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Top Bitcoin Core Dev Greg Maxwell DevCore: Must watch talk on mining, block size, and more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RguZ0_nmSPw) with [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory-maxwell) * 07-Dec-2015 bitcoin-dev Mailing List - [Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system - (Core's Roadmap)](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html) * 08-Feb-2016 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB117 – Eric Lombrozo: Upgrading Bitcoin With Segregated Witness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipca5gmcT8) -* 09-Oct-2016 Kristov Atlas on Youtube - [Fungibility Overview by Adam Back and Matt Corallo (Scaling Bitcoin Milan 2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvS3tp0qqgA) with [Adam Back](/people/adam_back.md) and [Matt Corallo](/people/matt_corallo.md) +* 09-Oct-2016 Kristov Atlas on Youtube - [Fungibility Overview by Adam Back and Matt Corallo (Scaling Bitcoin Milan 2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvS3tp0qqgA) with [Adam Back](/people/adam-back) and [Matt Corallo](/people/matt-corallo) * 28-Oct-2016 Bitcoincore.org - [Segregated Witness Costs and Risks](https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/10/28/segwit-costs/) * 14-Nov-2016 Medium.com - [A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship in /r/Bitcoin](censorship-in-r-bitcoin) by John Blocke * 17-Mar-2017 Medium.com - [Adam Back and Greg Maxwell aren’t the kings of Bitcoin](https://medium.com/@Chris_Stewart_5/adam-back-and-greg-maxwell-arent-the-kings-of-bitcoin-9e03e0a52177) by Chris Stewart * 20-Mar-2017 Bruce Fenton on Medium.com - [Blocks Will Always Be Full](https://medium.com/@brucefenton/blocks-will-always-be-full-68f2cac1992b) * 06-Jun-2017 TrustNodes.com - [Making Gregory Maxwell a Bitcoin Core Committer Was a “Huge Mistake” Says Gavin Andresen](http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/06/06/making-gregory-maxwell-bitcoin-core-committer-huge-mistake-says-gavin-andresen) by ? -* 08-Jul-2017 SF Bitcoin Developers on Youtube - [Bram Cohen: Data Structures for Scaling Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52FVkHlCh7Y) with [Bram Cohen](/people/bram_cohen.md) +* 08-Jul-2017 SF Bitcoin Developers on Youtube - [Bram Cohen: Data Structures for Scaling Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52FVkHlCh7Y) with [Bram Cohen](/people/bram-cohen) * 17-Jul-2017 Jimmy Song on Medium.com - [The Economics of Transaction Fees](https://blog.blockonomics.co/the-economics-of-transaction-fees-b6a7a0365753) * 17-Jul-2017 KeepingStock.net - [The corporate takeover attempt of Bitcoin](https://keepingstock.net/the-corporate-takeover-attempt-of-bitcoin-eb87c18fad60) by WhalePanda * 18-Aug-2017 BitcoinCore.org - [Correcting misinformation on Segwit2x and btc1](https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/08/18/btc1-misleading-statements/) diff --git a/_events/craig-wright-satoshi.md b/_events/craig-wright-satoshi.md index 8c62aa5..a644d1c 100644 --- a/_events/craig-wright-satoshi.md +++ b/_events/craig-wright-satoshi.md @@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ _placeholder_ ## Links -* [Craig Wright's entry in this repository](/people/craig_wright.md) +* [Craig Wright's entry in this repository](/people/craig-wright) * 08-May-2016 NewsBTC.com - [Wladimir van der Laan: “There is Something Truly Fishy Going On”](http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/05/08/wladimir-van-der-laan-something-truly-fishy-going/) by JP Buntix * 09-May-2016 CryptoCoinsNews.com - [Bitcoin Core Dev: Gavin Andresen’s GitHub Privileges Were A “Liability”](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-core-dev-gavin-andresens-github-privileges-liability/) by Samburaj Das diff --git a/_events/mtgox.md b/_events/mtgox.md index 1a2425c..a78b864 100644 --- a/_events/mtgox.md +++ b/_events/mtgox.md @@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ From wikipedia: ## Links -* [Mark Karpelès's entry in this repository](/people/mark_karpeles.md) +* [Mark Karpelès's entry in this repository](/people/mark-karpeles) * [Mt. Gox on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox) -* 25-Feb-2014 Antonopoulos.com - [Statement on Mt.Gox](https://antonopoulos.com/statement-on-mt-gox/) by [Andreas Antonopoulos](/people/andreas_antonopoulos.md) +* 25-Feb-2014 Antonopoulos.com - [Statement on Mt.Gox](https://antonopoulos.com/statement-on-mt-gox/) by [Andreas Antonopoulos](/people/andreas-antonopoulos) diff --git a/_events/the-silk-road.md b/_events/the-silk-road.md index 8bd3627..8332cde 100644 --- a/_events/the-silk-road.md +++ b/_events/the-silk-road.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ From wikipedia: ## Links -* [Ross Ulbricht's entry in this repository](/people/ross_ulbricht.md) +* [Ross Ulbricht's entry in this repository](/people/ross-ulbricht) * [Ross Ulbricht on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht) * [Silk Road (marketplace) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29) * [@Free_Ross on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Free_Ross) (Run by his mother, Lynn Ulbricht) diff --git a/_includes/organisation_links_by_group.html b/_includes/organisation_links_by_group.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe499ef --- /dev/null +++ b/_includes/organisation_links_by_group.html @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ + + diff --git a/_organisations/paralelni_polis.md b/_organisations/paralelni_polis.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5c2213 --- /dev/null +++ b/_organisations/paralelni_polis.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Paralelní Polis +blurb: "Runs a cypherpunk cafe and coworking/hacker-space in Prague, Czechia called The Institute of Crypto-Anarchy, The first (and maybe only) physical location to only accept payment in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Litecoin)" +permalink: /organisations/paralelni-polis +--- + +Paralelní Polis consist of several cypherpunk parts that all aim at one thing - helping people opt-out from the current authoritative system. The name means Parallel [Polis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis) (city in Greek). + +In Bitcoin Coffee, people learn there is an alternative financial system (the only accepted payments are Bitcoin and Litecoin), they only play Creative Commons music, there is no photography without asking permission. + +Paralelní Polis has a vision of free individuals and you can become one too, when you enter. + +As you proceed in the house, you can be on top of things by going to the Institute of Cryptoanarchy. You can learn how to increase your personal freedom. There are meetups about cryptocurrencies, unschooling, biohacking, personal liberty, machine learning, 3D printing, etc. + +When you gain new skills and learn more, you can either proceed to CryptoLab or Paper Hub and utilize your skills - you can create new products, services and open-source projects to advance the human liberty. + +As Paralelni Polis is trying to promote decentralization and freedom, everyone [is free to open their own Paralelni Polis](https://github.com/ParalelniPolis/ParalelniPolis-decentralized). The first one to open besides the [Prague](https://paralelnipolis.cz/) house is [Paralelná Polis in Bratislava, Slovakia](https://paralelnapolis.sk/). + +## Links + +* [Paralelní Polis, Prague](https://paralelnipolis.cz/) +* [Paralelná Polis, Bratislava](https://paralelnapolis.sk/) +* [Paralelní Polis - statement](https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/o-nas/en/) +* [Paralelní Polis - decentralization project](https://github.com/ParalelniPolis/ParalelniPolis-decentralized) diff --git a/_people/craig-wright.md b/_people/craig-wright.md index 8f814fa..f35fab1 100644 --- a/_people/craig-wright.md +++ b/_people/craig-wright.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ From wikipedia: ## Links -* [The Craig Wright Affair (and other attempts to identify Satoshi)'s entry in this repository](events/craig_wright_satoshi.md) +* [The Craig Wright Affair (and other attempts to identify Satoshi)'s entry in this repository](events/craig-wright-satoshi) * [Craig Steven Wright on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright) * 02-May-2016 Wired Magazine - [How Craig Wright Privately 'Proved' He Created Bitcoin](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/craig-wright-privately-proved-hes-bitcoins-creator/) by Andy Geenberg * 04-May-2016 Gizmodo.com - [Is Dave Kleiman the Missing Link in Craig Wright's Satoshi Story?](http://gizmodo.com/is-dave-kleiman-the-missing-link-in-craig-wrights-satos-1774519534) by Andy Cush diff --git a/_people/phil-zimmermann.md b/_people/phil-zimmermann.md index 64a6cc6..78aafc3 100644 --- a/_people/phil-zimmermann.md +++ b/_people/phil-zimmermann.md @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ From wikipedia: > He was born in Camden, New Jersey. His father was a concrete mixer truck driver. Zimmermann received a B.S. degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978, and thereafter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. In the 1980s, Zimmermann worked in Boulder, Colorado as a software engineer and was a part of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign as a military policy analyst. -Phil Zimmermann was a key player in the [90s Crypto Wars](/events/90s_crypto_wars.md). The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses. The US government at this time was keen to avoid strong crypto falling into the hands of civilians and foreign governments. At this time the US government was also pushing for specialised key-escrowed chips that would perform encryption, but make the plaintext readable to NSA if necessary. This was rightly considered a gross violation of privacy, rights, and a huge security hole by the cypherpunks. +Phil Zimmermann was a key player in the [90s Crypto Wars](/events/90s-crypto-wars). The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses. The US government at this time was keen to avoid strong crypto falling into the hands of civilians and foreign governments. At this time the US government was also pushing for specialised key-escrowed chips that would perform encryption, but make the plaintext readable to NSA if necessary. This was rightly considered a gross violation of privacy, rights, and a huge security hole by the cypherpunks. ## Links -* [90s Crypto Wars entry in this repository](/events/90s_crypto_wars.md) +* [90s Crypto Wars entry in this repository](/events/90s-crypto-wars) * [Phil Zimmermann on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann) +* [Crypto Wars on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars) * [Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) * 1991 PhilZimmermann.com - [Why I Wrote PGP](https://www.philZimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html) by Phil Zimmermann * 01-Jan-1993 Wired Magazine - [Crypto Rebels](https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/) by Steven Levy -* [Crypto Wars on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars) diff --git a/_people/ross-ulbricht.md b/_people/ross-ulbricht.md index 7c2e768..120522c 100644 --- a/_people/ross-ulbricht.md +++ b/_people/ross-ulbricht.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ From wikipedia: ## Links -* [The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road's entry in this repository](/events/the_silk_road.md) +* [The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road's entry in this repository](/events/the-silk-road) * [Ross Ulbricht on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht) * [Silk Road (marketplace) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29) * [@Free_Ross on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Free_Ross) (Run by his mother, Lynn Ulbricht) diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md b/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md index 160837f..678489d 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md @@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ layout: static-informational title: Notable Organsations permalink: /people-and-organisations/notable-organsations order: 5 -no_content: true --- + +{% include organisation_links_by_group.html %} diff --git a/_sources/books.md b/_sources/books.md index 5506e8b..b27fe66 100644 --- a/_sources/books.md +++ b/_sources/books.md @@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ order: 5 * 1967 (and 1996) - [The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Codebreakers) by David Kahn - _this book is a complete chronicle of codebreaking and code making since Ancient Egypt and assisted Whitfield Diffie in his quest to break the government's monopoly on cryptographic information. (A PDF of the abridged first edition is available via google search, but as it's not the full version, and doesn't include infromation about Alan Turing's work on Enigma, I'm not including it)_ * Jul 1968 - [The Broken Seal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2225948.The_Broken_Seal) by Ladislas Farago - _This details pre-Pearl Harbor cryptanalytic work against Japanese naval codes_ * 19-Sep-1982 - [The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace) by James Bramford - _An exposé on the workings of the US National Security Agency, which had traditionally sought to monopolise cryptographic information and talent within its own walls_ - _[scribd link](https://www.scribd.com/doc/57791980/The-Puzzle-Palace)_ -* 16-Apr-2001 - [Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-and-pirate-utopias) - _A colletion of essays from the same era as the cypherpunk mailing list; some of them from the list itself. A favourite book of [Cody Wilson](people/cody_wilson.md)_ - _[pdf link](https://monoskop.org/images/4/42/Ludlow_Peter_Crypto_Anarchy_Cyberstates_and_Pirate_Utopias.pdf)_ +* 16-Apr-2001 - [Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-and-pirate-utopias) - _A colletion of essays from the same era as the cypherpunk mailing list; some of them from the list itself. A favourite book of [Cody Wilson](people/cody-wilson)_ - _[pdf link](https://monoskop.org/images/4/42/Ludlow_Peter_Crypto_Anarchy_Cyberstates_and_Pirate_Utopias.pdf)_ * 31-Dec-2001 - [Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto:_How_the_Code_Rebels_Beat_the_Government%E2%80%94Saving_Privacy_in_the_Digital_Age) by Steven Levy - _I personally recommend this book as it provides a lot of contextual information about the world the cypherpunks of the 90s lived in_ diff --git a/_sources/philosophical-and-ideological-sources.md b/_sources/philosophical-and-ideological-sources.md index 5206ec6..05dc7a3 100644 --- a/_sources/philosophical-and-ideological-sources.md +++ b/_sources/philosophical-and-ideological-sources.md @@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ order: 2 * 2005 DavidDFriedman.com - [From Imperial China to Cyberspace: Contracting Without the State](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/analytical_methods_08/china_to_cyberspace.htm) * 03-Dec-2006 NakamotoInstitute.org - [State and Terrorist Conspiracies & Conspiracy as Governance ](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/julian-assange-conspiracies.pdf) by [Julian Assange](/people/julian-assange) * 2008 Mises.org - [Deflation and Liberty](https://mises.org/document/3726/Deflation-and-Liberty) by Jörg Guido Hülsmann -* mid-2010s paralelnipolis.cz - [Paralelni Polis - statement](https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/o-nas/en/) +* mid-2010s paralelnipolis.cz - [Paralelní Polis - statement](https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/o-nas/en/) * Dec 2015 (Academic Paper) - [The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work](http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf) by Phillip Rogaway