From f83ea0fb5387afa69a043c8bcf6a48be71e0481f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Busby Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 01:08:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add people pages --- _config.yml | 5 +- _people/adam-back.md | 33 ++++ _people/amir-taaki.md | 117 +++++++++++++ _people/andreas-antonopoulos.md | 30 ++++ _people/bram-cohen.md | 24 +++ _people/charlie-shrem.md | 32 ++++ _people/clifford-cocks.md | 22 +++ _people/cody-wilson.md | 155 ++++++++++++++++++ _people/cory-fields.md | 15 ++ _people/craig-wright.md | 33 ++++ _people/dave-kleiman.md | 34 ++++ _people/david-chaum.md | 32 ++++ _people/david-d-friedman.md | 30 ++++ _people/edward-snowden.md | 27 +++ _people/eric-hughes.md | 23 +++ _people/eric-voorhees.md | 15 ++ _people/gavin-andresen.md | 36 ++++ _people/gregory-maxwell.md | 31 ++++ _people/hal-finney.md | 48 ++++++ _people/ian-grigg.md | 21 +++ _people/jacob-appelbaum.md | 22 +++ _people/jeff-garzik.md | 25 +++ _people/jihan-wu.md | 20 +++ _people/jim-bell.md | 31 ++++ _people/john-gilmore.md | 32 ++++ _people/john-perry-barlow.md | 22 +++ _people/jonas-schnelli.md | 15 ++ _people/juan-benet.md | 16 ++ _people/julian-assange.md | 31 ++++ _people/luke-jr.md | 18 ++ _people/mark-karpeles.md | 42 +++++ _people/martin-hellman.md | 44 +++++ _people/matt-corallo.md | 22 +++ _people/moxie-marlinspike.md | 56 +++++++ _people/nick-szabo.md | 65 ++++++++ _people/paul-calder-le-roux.md | 30 ++++ _people/peter-todd.md | 26 +++ _people/phil-zimmermann.md | 26 +++ _people/pieter-wuille.md | 22 +++ _people/ralph-c-merkle.md | 25 +++ _people/rick-falkvinge.md | 31 ++++ _people/roger-ver.md | 40 +++++ _people/ross-ulbricht.md | 33 ++++ _people/satoshi-nakamoto.md | 94 +++++++++++ _people/theymos.md | 37 +++++ _people/timothy-c-may.md | 49 ++++++ _people/vinay-gupta.md | 34 ++++ _people/vitalik-buterin.md | 33 ++++ _people/weev.md | 21 +++ _people/wei-dai.md | 41 +++++ _people/whitfield-diffie.md | 57 +++++++ _people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan.md | 29 ++++ _people/zhou-tong.md | 28 ++++ .../cryptocurrency-notables.md | 2 +- ...herpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications.md | 2 +- ...cypherpunk-successor-online-communities.md | 2 +- .../early-cypherpunks.md | 2 +- ...later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists.md | 2 +- .../notable-organsations.md | 2 +- .../pioneers-of-modern-cryptography.md | 2 +- 60 files changed, 1886 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 _people/adam-back.md create mode 100644 _people/amir-taaki.md create mode 100644 _people/andreas-antonopoulos.md create mode 100644 _people/bram-cohen.md create mode 100644 _people/charlie-shrem.md create mode 100644 _people/clifford-cocks.md create mode 100644 _people/cody-wilson.md create mode 100644 _people/cory-fields.md create mode 100644 _people/craig-wright.md create mode 100644 _people/dave-kleiman.md create mode 100644 _people/david-chaum.md create mode 100644 _people/david-d-friedman.md create mode 100644 _people/edward-snowden.md create mode 100644 _people/eric-hughes.md create mode 100644 _people/eric-voorhees.md create mode 100644 _people/gavin-andresen.md create mode 100644 _people/gregory-maxwell.md create mode 100644 _people/hal-finney.md create mode 100644 _people/ian-grigg.md create mode 100644 _people/jacob-appelbaum.md create mode 100644 _people/jeff-garzik.md create mode 100644 _people/jihan-wu.md create mode 100644 _people/jim-bell.md create mode 100644 _people/john-gilmore.md create mode 100644 _people/john-perry-barlow.md create mode 100644 _people/jonas-schnelli.md create mode 100644 _people/juan-benet.md create mode 100644 _people/julian-assange.md create mode 100644 _people/luke-jr.md create mode 100644 _people/mark-karpeles.md create mode 100644 _people/martin-hellman.md create mode 100644 _people/matt-corallo.md create mode 100644 _people/moxie-marlinspike.md create mode 100644 _people/nick-szabo.md create mode 100644 _people/paul-calder-le-roux.md create mode 100644 _people/peter-todd.md create mode 100644 _people/phil-zimmermann.md create mode 100644 _people/pieter-wuille.md create mode 100644 _people/ralph-c-merkle.md create mode 100644 _people/rick-falkvinge.md create mode 100644 _people/roger-ver.md create mode 100644 _people/ross-ulbricht.md create mode 100644 _people/satoshi-nakamoto.md create mode 100644 _people/theymos.md create mode 100644 _people/timothy-c-may.md create mode 100644 _people/vinay-gupta.md create mode 100644 _people/vitalik-buterin.md create mode 100644 _people/weev.md create mode 100644 _people/wei-dai.md create mode 100644 _people/whitfield-diffie.md create mode 100644 _people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan.md create mode 100644 _people/zhou-tong.md diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index 265df5d..1215de4 100644 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ collections: output: true people_and_organisations: type: section - output: false + output: true events: type: section output: true @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ collections: notable_projects: type: section output: false + people: + type: subsection + output: true social: - icon: fa-twitter diff --git a/_people/adam-back.md b/_people/adam-back.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86228ac --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/adam-back.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Adam Back +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Inventor of HashCash, CEO of Blockstream" +permalink: /people/adam-back +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Adam Back + +From wikipedia: + +> Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and crypto-hacker. + +> He is the inventor of hashcash, the proof-of-work system used by several anti-spam systems. A similar system is used in bitcoin. Hashcash has also been used in a number of other protocols such as combating blog spam, and defending against user namespace pollution. + +> He is also known for pioneering the use of ultra-compact code with his 3-line RSA in Perl signature file and non-exportable T-shirts to protest the (now relaxed) United States cryptography export regulations. + +> Today he is CEO of Blockstream, a company that seeks to further the development of bitcoin and blockchain technology. + +## Links + +* [Adam Back on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back) +* [@adam3us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/adam3us) +* [Hashcash on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash) +* [hashcash.org](http://www.hashcash.org/) +* [Hashcash white paper](http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf) - _[mirror](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/hashcash.pdf)_ +* [Blockstream on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockstream) +* [Blockstream.com](https://blockstream.com/) +* 03-Feb-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB65 – Adam Back & Greg Maxwell: Sidechains Unchained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_elgnIw3M) with [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory_maxwell.md) +* 07-Sep-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB95 – Adam Back: Why Bitcoin Needs A Measured Approach To Scaling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYHyR2E5Pic) +* 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 [Matt Corallo](/people/matt_corallo.md) +* 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 diff --git a/_people/amir-taaki.md b/_people/amir-taaki.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f59257e --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/amir-taaki.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Amir Taaki +description: "British-Iranian Anarchist, Created the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal system, Former [Bitcoinica](events/bitcoinica.md) employee, Founder of DarkWallet, Former fighter in Rojava, Syria for the Kurdish YPG" +permalink: /people/amir-taaki +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Amir Taaki + +From wikipedia: + +> Amir Taaki (born 6 February 1988) is a British-Iranian revolutionary, hacker, and programmer who is known for his leading role in the bitcoin project, and for pioneering many open source projects. Forbes listed Taaki in their top 30 entrepreneurs of 2014. Taaki driven by the political philosophy of the Rojava revolution, travelled to Syria serving in the YPG military, and worked in Rojava's civil society on various economic projects for a year and a half. + +> Amir Taaki was born 6 February 1988 in London, the eldest of three children of a Scottish-English mother and an Iranian father who is a property developer. From an early age Taaki took an interest in computer technology, teaching himself computer programming. + +> In 2009 and 2010, Taaki made his living as a professional poker player. His experience with online gambling attracted him to the bitcoin project. He founded a UK bitcoin exchange called "Britcoin", which was succeeded in 2011 by a new British exchange called Intersango, in which he was a principal developer, which was closed after their UK bank account was restricted following an investigation by Metro Bank. + +> In April 2011, Taaki and Donald Norman established the Bitcoin Consultancy, a group focused on bitcoin project development. + +> Taaki created the first full reimplementation of the bitcoin protocol named libbitcoin, worked on the bitcoin client Electrum and created other command line utilities around bitcoin and the network. The bitcoin standardisation procedure (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals or BIPs) was started by Taaki. + +> In 2014, together with Cody Wilson, he launched the Dark Wallet project after a crowdfunding run on IndieGoGo which raised over $50,000. Taaki, along with other developers from Airbitz, Inc. (producers of a bitcoin business directory and mobile bitcoin wallet) created a prototype for a decentralised marketplace called "DarkMarket" in 2014, at a hackathon in Toronto, which was forked into the OpenBazaar project. + +> Taaki has been outspoken in favour of Internet activism such as Anonymous, likening them to modern day freedom-fighters. A long-time contributor to free software, he advocates total data freedom. Taaki has labelled censorship policies as being a wedge towards ever-increasing censorship. He proposes a shift away from specialist thinking towards a creative society of generalist knowledge workers. + +> Taaki is a speaker of Esperanto, which he promotes as an auxiliary country-neutral international language to preserve local languages. He writes that Esperanto serves to break down barriers and help the flow of media across cultural boundaries. + +> Amir Taaki formerly lived in an anarchist squat in Barcelona, Spain. He now resides in an anarchist squat in the former anti-G8 HQ building in London, England. + +> In 2015, Taaki went to Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) to offer his skills to the revolution, and served the YPG military. He had no training, but spent three and a half months in the YPG military fighting on the front. He was then discharged and worked in the civil society for over a year on various projects for Rojava's economics committee. + +## Quotes about Bitcoin Scaling + +> No, it's not very good for that. The Bitcoin-network is currently subsidized through inflation, meaning transactions cost about thirty dollars each. This vision of Bitcoin as a faster, cheaper and better payments-network is simply not tied to any technological grounding of what Bitcoin is really about. If we want to make Bitcoin a competitor to Visa or MasterCard, we would need to increase the blocksize and centralize mining so much that it is basically the same as existing payments networks. And even then, at some point, we'll reach a limit where Bitcoin is just not cost-efficient. We don't need to have all these miners crunching numbers just so people can buy a coffee. That's insane. + +## Links + +* [@AmirPolyteknik on Twitter](https://twitter.com/AmirPolyteknik) +* [Amir Taaki on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki) +* [@TheDarkWallet on Twitter](https://twitter.com/TheDarkwallet) +* [Genjix on GitHub](https://github.com/genjix) +* [DarkWallet organisation on GitHub](https://github.com/DarkWallet) +* [Amir Taaki on the Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Amir_Taaki) +* 10-May-2011 This Week in Start-ups - [Bitcoin Discussion with Gavin Andresen and Amir Taaki](http://thisweekinstartups.com/bitcoin-discussion-with-gavin-andresen-and-amir-taaki-on-this-week-in-startups-140/) +* 22-Jun-2011 Slashdot - [Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin](https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1737237/amir-taaki-answers-your-questions-about-bitcoin) +* 19-Aug-2011 bitcoin/bips - [BIP-1 Amir Taaki proposes the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal system, based on Python's PIPs](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0001.mediawiki) +* 29-Nov-2011 ECPA Conference - [Amir Taaki: EPCA conference Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqmKIXyqHc) +* 29 Nov 2011 stick on Youtube - [Bitcoin Introduction by Amir Taaki and Jamison Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBXKWV7v_M) +* 04-Dec-2011 Brmlab Tech Talk - [Async Programming by Amir Taaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyKcSpx5xDg) +* 10-Jan-2012 RT - [Keiser Report: Hollywood Cons Congress (E234)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-gYrTxz9U) +* 05-Sep-2012 Campus Party - [CPEU2 - Bitcon. Money backed by code and maths, not laws and politics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEpGp1JVMzs) +* 29-Nov-2012 NewFinance - [Amir Taaki, Founder of Intersango - Bitcoin, a virtual currency](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-DVOYyx_6U) +* 04-Mar-2013 Bratislava Hackerspace Talk - [Amir Taaki "New Future"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPu6j-xpYyE) +* 22-Mar-2013 The Guardian - [Silk Road: the online drug marketplace that officials seem powerless to stop](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/22/silk-road-online-drug-marketplace) by James Ball +* 12-May-2013 Satoshi Pollen - [Bit-Towers (up in the Meditation room)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUPlFCMPxA) +* 18-May-2013 RT - ['Bitcoin bomb may blow up banks' bondage, hence US attacks'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxgcV4XK-Q) +* 21-May-2013 Plan B - [Amir Taaki and #Bitcoin 2013 Wrap Up | Plan B 7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao_HdHyGKDU) +* 22-May-2013 RT - [CrossTalk: Bitcoin Revolution?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYzXNhk3Vjw) +* 23-May-2013 Bitcoin Bazaar - [Plan B Episode 7:Amir Taaki and #Bitcoin 2013 Wrap Up](https://bitcoinbazaar.wordpress.com/tag/amir-taaki/) +* 27-Jul-2013 RT - ['Bitcoin steals power from both banks & gangsters'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_3Pp_yGq4) +* 09-Aug-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [What Libbitcoin and SX are And Why They Matter](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/what-libbitcoin-and-sx-are-and-why-they-matter-1376064919/) by [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik_buterin.md) +* 23-Aug-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [Bitcoin – The Digital Black Market: Anonymous and Uncensored [VIDEO]](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-the-digital-black-market-anonymous-and-uncensored-video-1377264986/) by Amir Taaki +* 20-Sep-2013 BBC Click - [Could Dark Wallet hide Bitcoin user identity? BBC Click](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_9o63E_wjk) +* 23-Sep-2013 [libbitcoin Manifesto](https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin.github.io/blob/master/libbitcoin-manifesto.pdf) +* [libbitcoin on GitHub](https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin) +* 24-Sep-2013 The New Yorker - [Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/dark-wallet-a-radical-way-to-bitcoin) by Michael del Castillo +* 30-Sep-2013 Macao Meravigliao - [Amir Taaki / Bitcoin = interview @ Macao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2GDcNL6ak) +* 14-Oct-2013 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki on the Broader Culture and Opportunities Ahead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWFE9QQRQxU) +* 21-Oct-2013 Defence Distributed on Youtube - [Dark Wallet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouo7Q6Cf_yc) +* 31-Oct-2013 Forbes - [Dark Wallet Aims To Be The Anarchist's Bitcoin App Of Choice](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/31/darkwallet-aims-to-be-the-anarchists-bitcoin-app-of-choice/#b394a5a4cadf) by Andy Greenberg +* 01-Nov-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [Shedding Light on the Dark Wallet](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/shedding-light-on-the-dark-wallet-1383357523/) by [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik_buterin.md) +* 09-Jan-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki with Mastercoin's Peter Todd - Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fGPhwVUeug) with [Peter Todd](/people/peter_todd.md) +* 10-Jan-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki with Mastercoin's Peter Todd - Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBsIEySNOiM) with [Peter Todd](/people/peter_todd.md) +* 25-Feb-2014 Coinscrum Talk - [Amir Taaki Dark Wallet Live Coinscrum Alternative Stage London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjoBHfgg8w) +* 14-Apr-2014 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [Amir Taaki "We are the custodians of life's meaning"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COisLGwnb-M) +* 22-Apr-2014 CoinDesk - [DarkMarket Team Win Toronto Bitcoin Expo Hackathon](https://www.coindesk.com/airbitz-wins-toronto-bitcoin-expo-hackathon-darkmarket/) by Nermin Hajdarbegovic +* 24-Apr-2014 Defense Distributed - [Dark Wallet Alpha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFopiRaXwQ) +* 29-Apr-2014 Wired Magazine - ['Dark Wallet' Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever](https://www.wired.com/2014/04/dark-wallet/) by Andy Greenberg +* 04-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki - Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5K7UMCUFRE) +* 05-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki - Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxe_chCdPg) +* 06-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki - Part 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxeAtagN6E) +* 07-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki - Let's Talk Bitcoin Episode 106](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1Y2wYIjEI) +* 08-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki on his Hackathon winning Dark Market](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmBKC99Wts) +* 12-May-2014 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [I AM ANARCHY- Amir Taaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2ehHpg9Cw) +* 19-May-2014 WeAreChange - [Anarchistic Anonymous Dark Wallet Creator: Amir Taaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0tCaOI0UYM) +* 22-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki - Discovering Life's Meaning - Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusmof1hHw0) +* 23-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki - Discovering Life's Meaning - Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jX37B54R34) +* 24-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Building Cathedrals with Cody Wilson & Amir Taaki - Let's Talk Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xkgGKmPc80) +* 11-Jun-2014 Wired Magazine - [The Bitcoin App That Could Create a Black Market for Leaked Data](https://www.wired.com/2014/06/paypub/) by Andy Greenberg +* 11-Jul-2014 Wired Magazine - [Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/one-scrappy-startup-survived-early-bitcoin-wars/) by Andy Greenberg +* 14-Jul-2014 Vice Motherboard - [Dark Wallet's Developer Envisions 'Startup Governments' Run on Bitcoin](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ypw3vg/the-dark-wallet-developers-plan-for-startup-governments-run-on-bitcoin) by Joseph Cox +* 31-Jul-2014 Coin Telegraph - [Bitcoin's "Political Neutrality is a Myth" - Amir Taaki Interview](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoins-political-neutrality-is-a-myth-amir-taaki-interview) by Kenny Spotz +* 16-Aug-2014 Brave New Books - [Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki guest host The Crypto Show (with Peter Todd)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG5HlETyk7A) with [Cody Wilson](/people/cody_wilson.md) and [Peter Todd](/people/peter_todd.md) +* 10-Sep-2014 World Crypto Network - [Chris Before Coffee - Squat with Amir Taaki, Peter Todd, +BraveTheWorld and the Unsystem crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KV0lesSK8) with [Peter Todd](/people/peter_todd.md) +* 19-Sep-2014 BBC News - [Hiding currency in the Dark Wallet](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29283124) by Jen Copestake +* 02-Oct-2014 RT - [Keiser Report with Amir Taaki on DarkWallet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLdOk7oN0c) +* 07-Oct-2014 Bitcoin Magazine - [‘The Bitcoin-technology by itself is worth nothing’; an interview with Dark Wallet front-man Amir Taaki](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-technology-worth-nothing-interview-dark-wallet-front-man-amir-taaki-1412722833/) by Aaron van Wirdum +* 10-Oct-2014 Web We Want Festival - [Amir Taaki on Cryptocurrency at Web We Want Festival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VMugFWOKCU) +* 22-Jun-2016 Bloomberg Businessweek - [A Crypto-Anarchist Will Help You Build a DIY AR-15](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-cody-wilson-ghost-gunner-ar-15/) by Bryan Schutmaat +* 01-Jan-2015 Wired Magazine - [The Most Dangerous People on the Internet Right Now](https://www.wired.com/2015/01/dangerous-people-internet-right-now/) +* 03-Feb-2015 CoinDesk - [https://www.coindesk.com/meet-darkleaks-bitcoin-powered-black-market-secrets/](Meet Darkleaks, a Bitcoin-Powered Black Market for Secrets) by Grace Caffyn +* 06-Jul-2015 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [The Silk Road Had Multiple DPRs - Amir Taaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJaMGua9GfU) +* 10-Jun-2015 Vice Motherboard - [The Anarchist Hacker Bitcoin Would Rather Not Talk About](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ypw985/the-anarchist-hacker-bitcoin-would-rather-not-talk-about) by Joshi Hermann +* 02-Sep-2015 Coin Telegraph - [Darkwallet Developers Go Dark](https://cointelegraph.com/news/darkwallet-developers-go-dark) by Juan S. Galt +* 03-Sep-2015 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [The End of History Has Ended](http://bravetheworld.com/2015/09/03/history-ended-2/) by Amir Taaki +* 23-Jan-2017 Variety - [Sundance Film Review: ‘The New Radical’](http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-new-radical-review-1201967572/) by Owen Gleiberman +* 29-Mar-2017 Wired Magazine - [How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting in Syria](https://www.wired.com/2017/03/anarchist-bitcoin-coder-found-fighting-isis-syria/) by Andy Greenberg +* 29-Mar-2017 BBC News - [Bitcoin entrepreneur Amir Taaki quizzed over fighting in Syria](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39417937) by Emma Vardy +* 30-Mar-2017 Coin Telegraph - [How Amir Taaki Tried to Build Bitcoin Economy in Syria While Fighting ISIS](https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-amir-taaki-tried-to-build-bitcoin-economy-in-syria-while-fighting-isis) by Joseph Young +* 04-Apr-2017 Channel 4 News - [Bitcoin developer who fought against the Islamic State](https://www.channel4.com/news/bitcoin-developer-who-fought-against-the-islamic-state) +* 05-Apr-2017 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [The Crypto Show: Amir Taaki vs ISIS, Bitcoin & Dark Wallet](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-crypto-show-amir-taaki-vs-isis-bitcoin-dark-wallet) +* 06-Apr-2017 London Evening Standard - [Tech enigma Amir Taaki on Forbes and fighting Isis in Syria](https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tech-enigma-amir-taaki-on-forbes-and-fighting-isis-a3509096.html) by Susannah Butter +* 09-Apr-2017 The Crypto Show - [Amir Taaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK93JEjWPV8) +* 02-May-2017 Sputnik News - [The Only Anarchist Revolution in History](https://sputniknews.com/radio_double_down/201705021053187780-the-only-anarchist-revolution-in-history/) +* 02-May-2017 The Tatiana Show - [The Tatiana Show - Amir Taaki & Lyn Ulbricht of FreeRoss.org](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pin6DhQee48) +* 01-Jun-2017 Crypto Insider - [Amir Taaki: Darknet Markets Made Bitcoin Popular, Not Coffee Purchases](https://cryptoinsider.com/amir-taaki-darknet-markets-made-bitcoin-popular-not-coffee-purchases/) by Kyle Torpey diff --git a/_people/andreas-antonopoulos.md b/_people/andreas-antonopoulos.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcd8d7c --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/andreas-antonopoulos.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Andreas Antonopoulos +description: "Bitcoin evangelist, Author of [Mastering Bitcoin](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook)" +permalink: /people/andreas-antonopoulos +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Andreas Antonopoulos + +From wikipedia: + +> Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Greek - California-based information security expert, tech-entrepreneur and author. He is a host on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the master in science Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia. + +> Antonopoulos obtained his degree in Computer Science and Data Communications and Distributed Systems from the University College London. He consulted business on open source and open networks as early as 1990. He has authored more than two hundred articles published in print and syndicated worldwide. As a partner at Nemertes Research, Antonopoulos researched computer security, stating that the greatest threat to computer security was not experienced hackers, but overly complex systems that resulted from rapid change in business. + +> Antonopoulos is a consultant on several bitcoin-related startups and permanent host of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast. He served as head of the Bitcoin Foundation's anti-poverty committee until 2014, resigning due to disagreements with its management. In a statement explaining the reasons for his resignation, he said "I can no longer have even the smallest association with the Bitcoin Foundation, because of the complete lack of transparency." + +> In January 2014, Antonopoulos joined Blockchain.info as Chief Security Officer. In September 2014 he left the CSO role and became an advisor to the board. + +> Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it "a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless". In February 2014, following the closing of Mt. Gox, Antonopoulos published a further analysis of the collapse and its effect on the greater bitcoin ecosystem. + +## Links + +* [Andreas Antonopoulos on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Antonopoulos) +* [@aantonop on Twitter](https://twitter.com/aantonop) +* [Andreas M. Antonopoulos on GitHub](https://github.com/aantonop) +* 25-Feb-2014 Antonopoulos.com - [Statement on Mt.Gox](https://antonopoulos.com/statement-on-mt-gox/) by Andreas Antonopoulos +* Dec 2014 O'Reilly Books - [Mastering Bitcoin (free to read on GitHub)](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook) by Andreas Antonopoulos +* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Panel Discussion-DevCore Draper University 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQSRGT3nfE) with [Matt Corallo](/people/matt_corallo.md), [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory_maxwell.md) and [Gavin Andresen](/people/gavin_andresen.md) diff --git a/_people/bram-cohen.md b/_people/bram-cohen.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5025a17 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/bram-cohen.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Bram Cohen +description: "Twitter bio: \"Creator of BitTorrent. Now doing cryptocurrency stuff\"" +permalink: /people/bram-cohen +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Bram Cohen + +Most famous as the inventor of the Bittorrent protocol. He currently has plans for his own cryptocurrency which is based on storage. Bram was also the person who accidentally revealed the existence of the "Dragon's Den" bitcoin core slack channel. He is pro-SegWit in the scaling debate. + +## Quotes + +> "90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs" + +## Links + +* [Bram Cohen on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen) +* [@bramcohen on Twitter](https://twitter.com/bramcohen) +* [bramcohen.com - Personal Blog](http://bramcohen.com/) +* [BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen on piracy and autism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOa1ecTy3EA) +* 04-Feb-2008 [The BitTorrent Protocol Specification](http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html) +* 08-Jul-2017 SF Bitcoin Developers on Youtube - [Bram Cohen: Data Structures for Scaling Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52FVkHlCh7Y) diff --git a/_people/charlie-shrem.md b/_people/charlie-shrem.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77d0515 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/charlie-shrem.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Charlie Shrem +description: "Former CEO of the BitInstant bitcoin exchange, Former Bitcoin Foundation board member, Served a short prison term for supplying bitcoin to a user (BTCKing) who intended to sell them for use on the Silk Road dark web market" +permalink: /people/charlie-shrem +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Charlie Shrem + +From wikipedia: + +> Charles "Charlie" Shrem IV (born November 25, 1989) is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, formerly serving as vice chairman. In 2017, he joined Jaxx as its director of business and community development. In December 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison around June 2016. + +> Shrem was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is an alum of Yeshivah of Flatbush, and graduated from Brooklyn College in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance. He is of Syrian Jewish descent. + +> As a college senior in 2011, Shrem started investing in bitcoin. Soon after, the bitcoin service Shrem was using crashed, and he lost his bitcoins. Shrem and Gareth Nelson, a friend he met online, had similar frustrations with the length of time it took to buy and sell bitcoin on exchange sites. They started BitInstant, a more user-friendly company that charged a fee for users to purchase and make purchases with bitcoins at over 700,000 locations, providing temporary credit to speed up transactions. Initially a side project, BitInstant soon needed to grow, at which point Shrem received a $10,000 loan from his mother. Shortly thereafter, BitInstant received $125,000 from angel investor Roger Ver, and, in the fall of 2012, $1.5 million from a group of investors led by Winklevoss Capital Management. By 2013, BitInstant was processing approximately 30% of all bitcoin transactions. BitInstant operated from September 2011 until July 2013. + +> At the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose, California, Shrem spoke about the challenges facing bitcoin companies and the need for them to comply with regulations, as well as the challenges of properly explaining the value and mainstream potential of bitcoin. He has described himself as a bitcoin purist, who believes in bitcoin as a technology that will help the world by allowing citizens to protect their money without banks and other traditional financial institutions. + +> Shrem is a founding board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, founded in 2012 with a mission to standardize and promote bitcoin. He was formerly vice chairman, resigning after his January 26, 2014 arrest. + +> Shrem is featured in The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, a documentary directed by Nicholas Mross that explores the origins and development of bitcoin. It premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Shrem participated in a panel discussion following the screening. He is also featured in the 2016 documentary film Banking on Bitcoin, discussing how bitcoin technology will shape lives, and in the 2015 book Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper, which covers the rise of bitcoin. + +> After his release from 24-hour house arrest in May 2014, with the conditions that he must abide by a curfew, remain in New York City and wear a GPS monitoring device, Shrem spoke at bitcoin industry events, worked as a business development consultant for payments startup Payza, and advised two Brooklyn Holiday Inn hotels on preparations to accept bitcoin for payment. He was imprisoned from March 30, 2015, until his release around June 2016. + +## Links + +* [Charlie Shrem on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Shrem) +* [@CharlieShrem on Twitter](https://twitter.com/CharlieShrem) +* [charlieshrem.com - Personal Website](http://charlieshrem.com/) +* 04-Dec-2016 Business Insider - [A 26-year old Bitcoin entrepreneur was handed prison time, and the experience only confirmed his belief in the cryptocurrency](http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/A-26-year-old-Bitcoin-entrepreneur-was-handed-prison-time-and-the-experience-only-confirmed-his-belief-in-the-cryptocurrency-1001572621) by Tina Wadhwa diff --git a/_people/clifford-cocks.md b/_people/clifford-cocks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f482305 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/clifford-cocks.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Clifford Cocks +description: "British Intelligence Cryptographer, Invented Public Key Cryptography but his work was kept classified until 1997, By definition not a cypherpunk (since he worked in secrecy for intelligence agencies) - but deserving of credit as the field's true founder" +permalink: /people/clifford-cocks +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Clifford Cocks + +From wikipedia: + +> Clifford Christopher Cocks CB FRS (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer. In 1973 he invented a public key cryptography algorithm equivalent to what would have become (in 1978) the RSA algorithm, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). + +> The idea was classified information and his insight remained hidden for 24 years, despite being independently invented by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman in 1977. Public Key Cryptography using prime factorisation is now part of nearly every internet transaction. + +## Links + +* [Clifford Cocks on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks) +* 01-Apr-1999 Wired Magazine - [The Open Secret](https://www.wired.com/1999/04/crypto/) by Steven Levy +* 06-Oct-1999 Cryptome.org - [The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography](https://cryptome.org/ukpk-alt.htm) +* 02-Jan-2014 Cryptography Stack Exchange - [How does Clifford Cocks 'Non-Secret Encryption' work?](https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/12687/how-does-clifford-cocks-non-secret-encryption-work) diff --git a/_people/cody-wilson.md b/_people/cody-wilson.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5723c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/cody-wilson.md @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Cody Wilson +description: "Post-left Anarchist, Founder of Defence Distributed (which successfully produced designs for a fully 3D printed plastic firearm), Worked with [Amir Taaki](people/amir_taaki.md) on DarkWallet as a kind of spokesman/propagandist" +permalink: /people/cody-wilson +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Cody Wilson + +From wikipedia: + +> Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American crypto-anarchist, free-market anarchist, and gun-rights activist, best known as a founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for 3D printing. He is a co-founder of the Dark Wallet bitcoin storage technology. + +> Defense Distributed gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for the Liberator, a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer. Wilson is regarded as one of America's most influential gun rights advocates, and Wired Magazine's "Danger Room" named him one of "The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World" in 2012. In 2015, Wired named Wilson the fifth most dangerous person on the Internet. + +## Links + +* [Cody Wilson on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Wilson) +* [@Radomysisky on Twitter](https://twitter.com/radomysisky) +* [Defense Distributed defdist.org](https://defdist.org/) +* [Defense Distributed's Channel on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/DXLiberty/videos) +* [GhostGunner.net](https://ghostgunner.net/) +* [Cody Wilson's Profile on IdeaCity.ca](http://www.ideacity.ca/speaker/cody-wilson/) +* [Liberator Pistol Announcement (First Fully 3D-Printed Firearm)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPz6n6UXQY) +* [Ghost Gunner Announcement (Automated Milling Machine to Make AR-15 Lower Receivers from 80%s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwRtll3jjU4) +* [Ghost Gunner Release (Automated Milling Machine to Make AR-15 Lower Receivers from 80%s)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjasSGZd40s) +* [Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free (on Google Books)](https://books.google.pl/books?id=7_UlDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=cody+wilson&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2puugv-3VAhVCZlAKHQD9D_oQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=cody%20wilson&f=false) by Coding Wilson +* 27-Jul-2012 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [The Wiki Weapon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ6Q3BfbVBU) +* 02-Oct-2012 HuffingtonPost.com - [Amateur Gunsmith Cody Wilson’s 3D Printed Gun Project On Hold After Company Reclaims Wiki Printer (VIDEO)](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/cody-wilsons-3d-printed-gun-project-on-hold-after-company-recalims-printer_n_1933225.html) +* 03-Oct-2012 Bitcoin 2012 Conference Talk - [Bitcoin 2012: Cody Wilson - Gun printing as a humanism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infTiRNtSps) +* 05-Nov-2012 University of Texas Talk - [Cody Wilson Philosophy Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3zx8kyVtGM) +* 05-Nov-2012 University of Texas Talk - [Cody Wilson Philosophy Part II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTbkcj3JA4) +* 02-Dec-2012 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [Thingiverse Reinforced AR Lower Test](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDCW_Rn5JI) +* 18-Dec-2012 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AR Lower - Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_8r6okWGE) +* 21-Dec-2012 PopSci.com - [Q+A: Cody Wilson Of The Wiki Weapon Project On The 3-D Printed Future of Firearms](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-12/qa-cody-wilson-wiki-weapons-project-3-d-printed-future-firearms) by Clay Dillow +* 25-Dec-2012 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AR Lower - Part II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFhIxey5AXM) +* 09-Jan-2013 AdamKokesh on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - Pioneering 3D printing guns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFE_6DqpBvU) +* 11-Jan-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AR Mag - Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTcMSGQKJbM) +* 12-Jan-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AR Mag - Part II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTcMSGQKJbM) +* 02-Feb-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed Cuomo Mag - Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYSqBA9BKw) +* 07-Feb-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed Cuomo Mag - Part II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY16r6EkUNY) +* 07-Feb-2013 MakeZine.com - [The Face of Printable Firearms: A Conversation with Cody Wilson](http://makezine.com/2013/02/07/the-face-of-printable-firearms-a-conversation-with-cody-wilson/) by Sean Michael Ragan +* 08-Feb-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [The Cuomo Mag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTriDDUpUk) +* 25-Feb-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AR Lower - Part III](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAW72Y_XPF4) +* 25-Feb-2013 NPR.com (Radio) - [Weapons Made With 3-D Printers Could Complicate Gun Control Laws](http://www.npr.org/2013/02/25/172905444/weapons-made-with-3-d-printers-could-complicate-gun-control-laws) by Jon Kalish +* 06-Mar-2013 PBS Newshour - [New Printable Handgun Raises Concerns for Undetectability, Universal Access](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues-jan-june13-guns2_05-06/) +* 07-Mar-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DefDist Printed AK Mag - Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KCuymRLMk) +* 07-Mar-2013 The New Yorker - [A Gun, A Printer, An Ideology](http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-gun-a-printer-an-ideology) by Jacob Silverman +* 11-Mar-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [DEFCAD.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO54gzfite4) +* 11-Mar-2013 Slate.com - ["Wiki Weapon" Founder Wants to Build the Google of 3-D Printed Guns](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/11/defcad_cody_wilson_plans_search_engine_for_3_d_printed_gun_parts.html) by Will Oremus +* 12-Mar-2013 Salon.com - [The man with the 3-D-printed gun](http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/the_man_with_the_3d_printed_gun/) by Andrew Leonard +* 13-Mar-2013 HuffingtonPost.ca - [SXSW: 'Wiki Weapons' Maker Cody Wilson Says 3D Printed Guns 'Are Going To Be Possible Forever'](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/13/sxsw-printed-guns-wiki-weapons-cody-wilson_n_2868465.html) by Joshua Ostroff +* 20 Mar-2013 The Alex Jones Channel on Youtube - [Printable 3D Gun Creator Meets Alex Jones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK6EeSooo7k) +* 21-Mar-2013 Tsiyonut times on Youtube - [ALEX JONES Talks TO CODY WILSON :A Crypto-Anarchist Who Developed A PRINTABLE 3D GUN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dX0BfqtI0w) +* 25-Mar-2013 Vice.com - [3D Printed Guns (Documentary)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA) +* 25-Mar-2013 PJ Media on Youtube - [Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson Explains the Printed Firearm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqqozn8FNc) +* 27-Mar-2013 CNN News - [3D Gun Printing Revolution. (CNN news)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6MJ7FwExs) +* 27-Mar-2013 CNN Blogs - The Lead - [3D gun printing possible "by the end of April"](http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/27/3d-gun-printing-possible-by-the-end-of-april/) by Gregory Wallace +* 28-Mar-2013 Reddit AMA - [I'm Cody Wilson, founder and director of Defense Distributed, and the guy trying to make 3D printed guns a reality. Ask my anything.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1b6x2r/im_cody_wilson_founder_and_director_of_defense/) +* 28-Mar-2013 Business Insider - [Cody Wilson Is Disrupting The Entire Gun Control Debate](http://www.businessinsider.com/cody-wilson-is-disrupting-gun-debate-2013-3?IR=T) by Paul Szoldra +* 29-Mar-2013 carbonpenguin on Youtube - [Cody Wilson Blows Glenn Beck's Mind, Tells Him to Read Foucault](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK6-kbdHE2A) +* 05-Apr-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [Defense Distributed - The Feinstein Mag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tVwhmfV1bU) +* 09-Apr-2013 CNBC Prime on Youtube - [Print Your AR-15 at Home America's Gun: The #RiseOfAR15 | CNBC | 4/25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3bMvYkGRc) +* 09-Apr-2013 Vice.com - [The VICE Podcast - Cody Wilson on 3D-Printed Guns](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqw7k3/cody-wilson-on-3d-printed-guns-vice-podcast-001) by Eddy Moretti _([youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYWGrfo-ao))_ +* 11-Apr-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [KOBRA - Cody Wilson on Defense Distributed (News Report in Swedish)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZAaxYwhOo) +* 24-Apr-2013 Mashable - [3D-Printed Weapons Builder Says He's Ready to Print Entire Handgun](http://mashable.com/2013/04/24/3d-printed-handgun/#i2kkmXAKYgqt) by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai +* 05-May-2013 Defense Distributed on Youtube - [Liberator - Dawn of the Wiki Weapons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPz6n6UXQY) +* 06-May-2013 BBC News - [Working gun made with 3D printer](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22421185) by Rebecca Morelle +* 07-May-2013 ForeignPolicy.com - [Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world’s first 3-D printed gun](http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/07/meet-cody-wilson-the-anarchist-behind-the-worlds-first-3-d-printed-gun/) by Elias Groll +* 07-May-2013 Harry Vos Blog - [3D Printed Guns: Cody Wilson as Bane, the villain from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises](http://harryvos.com/blog-archive/3d-printing-cody-wilson-bane) by Harry Vos +* 07-May-2013 Seeker on Youtube - [First Firing of "Liberator" 3D Printed Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IylGx-48TUI) +* 13-May-2013 Belligerent Politics on Youtube - [3D Printer Guns Shut Down By Government - Cody Wilson's Interview with Jacari Jackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MsYlnJVkM) +* 13-Jul-2013 Haaretz - [Happiness Is a 3-D Gun: Is Law Student Cody Wilson a Criminal or a Freedom Fighter?](http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.535200) by Omer Shubert +* 06-Aug-2013 The Washington Post - [Why Cody Wilson, the 3D-printed gun maker, thinks 3D printing might not take off](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/06/why-cody-wilson-the-3d-printed-gun-maker-thinks-3d-printing-might-not-take-off/) by Brian Fung +* 08-Sep-2013 Brown Political Review - [BPR Interview: Cody Wilson](http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/09/bpr-interviews-cody-wilson-full/) +* 24-Sep-2013 The New Yorker - [Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/dark-wallet-a-radical-way-to-bitcoin) by Michael del Castillo +* 27-Sep-2013 DailyDot.com - [The Liberator: Cody Wilson’s armed for a free speech battle](https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/cody-wilson-itar-state-department-liberator-supreme-court-gun-control/) by Kevin Morris +* 21-Oct-2013 Defence Distributed on Youtube - [Dark Wallet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouo7Q6Cf_yc) +* 31-Oct-2013 Forbes - [Dark Wallet Aims To Be The Anarchist's Bitcoin App Of Choice](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/31/darkwallet-aims-to-be-the-anarchists-bitcoin-app-of-choice/#b394a5a4cadf) by Andy Greenberg +* 01-Nov-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [Shedding Light on the Dark Wallet](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/shedding-light-on-the-dark-wallet-1383357523/) by [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik_buterin.md) +* 10-Nov-2013 Michael Goldstein on Youtube - [Digital Apocalypse: An Interview with Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tawJ_RVdSAs) +* 21-Nov-2013 The Independent (UK) - [Cody Wilson Create a Gun That Can Be Downloaded and Built with a 3D Printer - Is He Too Dangerous for Britain?](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/cody-wilson-created-a-gun-that-can-be-downloaded-and-built-with-a-3d-printer-is-he-too-dangerous-for-8955409.html) by Paul Peachey +* 30-Nov-2013 Channel 4 News on Youtube - [Cody Wilson on 'p***ing off the entire world'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDb6SuUz40I) +* 10-Dec-2013 Satoshi Pollen on Youtube - [Bitcoin is political, deal with it. Welcome to Dark Wallet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hKmCK3nTg) +* 22-Jan-2014 Forbes Magazine - [3D-Printed Gun Creator Cody Wilson Lands Quarter Million Dollar Book Deal](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/22/3d-printed-gun-creator-cody-wilson-lands-quarter-million-dollar-book-deal/#497a1f2a276f) by Andy Greenberg +* 10-Feb-2014 RawStory - [Meet Cody Wilson – creator of the 3D-gun, anarchist and poster boy for the free web](http://www.rawstory.com/2014/02/meet-cody-wilson-creator-of-the-3d-gun-anarchist-and-poster-boy-for-the-free-web/) by Carole Cadwalladr +* 10-Feb-2014 The Guardian - [Meet Cody Wilson, creator of the 3D-gun, anarchist, libertarian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/10/cody-wilson-3d-gun-anarchist) by Carole Cadwalladr +* 25-Feb-2014 freeconcordtv on Youtube - [Copyright is Theft: Cody Wilson on IP Issues of 3D Printed Firearms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFHXjUdE60) +* 25-Feb-2014 WeAreChange on Youtube - [Cody Wilson on Creating the 3d Printed Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIDJyN9qZk) +* 26-Feb-2014 CBSLocal Denver - [3-D Printing Technology Can Make Undetectable Guns](http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/02/26/3-d-printing-technology-can-make-undetectable-guns/) +* 27-Feb-2014 FreeStateProjectNH on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - Liberator @NHLF14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAf-IoOBV8) +* 12-Mar-2014 BBC New HardTalk - [Cody Wilson on HardTalk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjpdjz-mk0) +* 11-Apr-2014 OxfordUnion on Youtube - [Why I printed a gun | Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rI7xODbdsk) +* 15-Apr-2014 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [I AM ANARCHY - Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5C-lWvdmU) +* 16-Apr-2014 SXSW on Youtube - [Blood Physible with Cody Wilson (Full Session) | Interactive 2014 | SXSW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moIWx0c6kKc) +* 18-Apr-2014 ReasonTV - [Cody Wilson: Happiness is a 3-D Printed Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fhBBipU3w) +* 24-Apr-2014 Defense Distributed - [Dark Wallet Alpha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VFopiRaXwQ) +* 13-May-2014 BitcoinNotBombs.com - [Cody Wilson and M.K. Lords Discuss Resistance to the State at Freedom Summit](http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/cody-wilson-and-m-k-lords-discuss-resistance-to-the-state-at-freedom-summit/) +* 22-May-2014 Talk at Brave New Books in Austin - [Wisdom Trek - Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QYD_AM8d0) +* 24-May-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Building Cathedrals with Cody Wilson & Amir Taaki - Let's Talk Bitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xkgGKmPc80) +* 02-Jun-2014 ComputerWorld.com - [http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490134/emerging-technology/q-a--3d-gun-maker-cody-wilson-defends-freedom-to-print-guns.html](http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490134/emerging-technology/q-a--3d-gun-maker-cody-wilson-defends-freedom-to-print-guns.html) by Lucas Mearian +* 11-Jul-2014 Wired Magazine - [Waiting for Dark: Inside Two Anarchists' Quest for Untraceable Money](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/one-scrappy-startup-survived-early-bitcoin-wars/) by Andy Greenberg +* 09-Jul-2014 Contrarian Dude on Youtube - [Cody Wilson on Anonymity, Defense Distributed and Dark Wallet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEHMZVIMcQ) +* 16-Aug-2014 Brave New Books - [Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki guest host The Crypto Show (with Peter Todd)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG5HlETyk7A) with [Peter Todd](/people/peter_todd.md) and [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 15-Sep-2014 RT.com - [3D printed gun creator: I looked at modern society and saw that it's a constantly derailed train](https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/187780-3d-printed-gun-control/) +* 16-Sep-2014 RT on Youtube - ['Gun control is dangerous': RT talks to 3D-printable gun inventor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBFI56FkR0) +* 21-Sep-2014 Defence Distributed on Youtube - [October Surprise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO30z2o6-t0) +* 01-Oct-2014 Defense Distributed - [Ghost Gunner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwRtll3jjU4) +* 10-Nov-2014 Defense Distributed - [Terrorist Hypothesis (Radio Interview)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFqrYto2wao) +* 01-Jan-2015 Wired Magazine - [The Most Dangerous People on the Internet Right Now](https://www.wired.com/2015/01/dangerous-people-internet-right-now/) +* 02-Jan-2015 CoinDesk - [Cody Wilson Speaks Out on Campaign to Dismantle Bitcoin Foundation](https://www.coindesk.com/cody-wilson-speaks-campaign-dismantle-bitcoin-foundation/) by Jon Southurst +* 02-Mar-2015 Defense Distributed - [A Forgery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L9mHtL1HTs) +* 11-Mar-2015 Wired Magazine - [Cody Wilson Wants to Destroy Your World](https://www.wired.com/2015/03/cody-wilson-wants-to-destroy-your-world/) by Andrew Zaleski +* 26-Mar-2015 IdeaCity Talk - [Cody Wilson - 3D-printed Weapons and Crypto-Anarchy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lKXEuQTA4) +* 24-Apr-2015 Defense Distributed - [Ghost Gunner Release](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjasSGZd40s) +* 05-May-2015 New York Times - [Cody Wilson, Who Posted Gun Instructions Online, Sues State Department](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/us/cody-wilson-who-posted-gun-instructions-online-sues-state-department.html) by Alan Feuer +* 03-Aug-2015 Defense Distributed - [The Dread Pirate Homily](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eml2PLYUXrc) +* 08-Aug-2015 Free Ross on Youtube - [Cody Wilson: "Ross Ulbricht is paying for being ethical" #FreeRoss"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKswztcEng) +* 02-Sep-2015 Coin Telegraph - [Darkwallet Developers Go Dark](https://cointelegraph.com/news/darkwallet-developers-go-dark) by Juan S. Galt +* 06-Oct-2016 TheArchitectHasNoControl on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - Traditional Means of Control 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCINuZrE-2g) +* 03-Nov-2016 TheArchitectHasNoControl on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - GHOST GUNNER 2015 #KSATnews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJD9yg1O6eE) +* 17-Nov-2015 Red Ice TV on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - 3D Printed Guns, PC Hacktivism & Cultural Terrorism - Radio 3Fourteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33d9Qmldmo) +* 20-Nov-2015 The Austin Chronicle - [https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-11-20/the-most-dangerous-man-in-austin/](https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-11-20/the-most-dangerous-man-in-austin/) by Chase Hoffberger +* 22-Dec-2015 The Conscious Resistance on Youtube - [Cody Wilson Explains DefenseDistributed vs. U.S. State Department](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfcZLlRhSk) +* 13-Jan-2016 The Alex Jones Channel on Youtube - [Ghost Gunner: Evolution of The Firearm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh4n5puQQlo) +* 25-Jan-2016 3ders.org - [Cody Wilson wants to release 3D print details for AR-15 rifle, could ISIS start using 3D printed weapons?](http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160125-cody-wilson-wants-to-release-3d-print-details-for-ar-15-rifle-isis-3d-printed-weapons.html) by Alec +* 25-Jan-2016 The Daily Mail - [Could ISIS start using 3D printed weapons? Pro-gun activist vows to reveal online how to make a semi-automatic rifle for just £100](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3415038/Could-ISIS-start-using-3D-printed-weapons-Pro-gun-activist-vows-reveal-online-make-semi-automatic-rifle-just-100.html) by Mark Duell +* 26-Jan-2016 The Mirrow (UK) - [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/anarchist-3d-printed-weapons-fanatic-7239138](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/anarchist-3d-printed-weapons-fanatic-7239138) by Martin Bagot +* 12-Mar-2016 TheArchitectHasNoControl on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - Expanding Police State 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw0Y02HJY_w) +* 13-Mar-2016 Tim Clarke on Youtube - [Revolt - DefDist/Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQjCzvav5_Q) +* 06-Jun-2016 The Guardian - [Cody Wilson: the man who wants Americans to print their own 3D guns](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/06/cody-wilson-3d-guns-printing-firearms-lower-receivers) by Adam Popescu +* 21-Jun-2015 Defense Distributed - [Ghost Gunner 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clzSo2EAAoI) +* 22-Jun-2016 Bloomberg Businessweek - [A Crypto-Anarchist Will Help You Build a DIY AR-15](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-cody-wilson-ghost-gunner-ar-15/) by Bryan Schutmaat +* 10-Aug-2016 CBSLocal Denver - [Plastic Guns Made From 3D Printers Becoming More Concerning](http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/08/10/plastic-guns-3d-printers-tsa-airports/) by Rick Sallinger +* 23-Sep-2016 3DPrint.com - [Another Setback for 3D Printed Gun Advocate Cody Wilson as Court of Appeals Rules That National Security Concerns Outweigh Free Speech](https://3dprint.com/150324/court-of-appeals-cody-wilson/) by Clare Scott +* 29-Sep-2016 Guns.com - [Exclusive: Firearms industry distances itself from Cody Wilson, 3D-printed guns](http://www.guns.com/2016/09/29/firearms-industry-distances-itself-from-cody-wilson-3d-printed-guns/) by Jared Morgan +* 30-Sep-2016 LFD Research on Youtube - [Cody Wilson Interview GRPC 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMycF0DcWsE) +* 09-Sep-2016 Ars Technica - [Come and Take It: “disintermediating the state,” one 3D-printed gun at a time](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/come-and-take-it-how-cody-wilson-became-americas-3d-printing-gunsmith/) by Cyrus Farivar +* 11-Oct-2016 Amazon.com: Book - [Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free](https://www.amazon.com/Come-Take-Printers-Guide-Thinking/dp/1476778264) by Cody Wilson +* 29-Oct-2016 Foundation for Economic Education - [The Streisand Effect and Cody Wilson's 3-D Printed Gun](https://fee.org/articles/the-streisand-effect-and-cody-wilsons-3-d-printed-gun/) by C. Edward Kelso +* 23-Nov-2016 Reason.com - [An AR-15 in Every Home: 3D Gun Printer Cody Wilson on the Right to Resistance, Hacking the Media, and Trump](http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/11/23/3d-gun-printer-cody-wilson-on-the-right) by Zach Weissmueller +* 02-Dec-2015 TomWoodsTV on Youtube - [Liberty, Guns, and 3D Printing: Discussion with Cody Wilson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXkmFsnRixc) +* 05-Dec-2016 BraveTheWorld on Youtube - [Cody Wilson - "Come and Take It"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekksPm2GVyI) +* 12-Dec-2016 Pyrrho of the Minute on Youtube - [Cody Wilson on Utopia (2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Tvvo2GRpQ) +* 24-Jan-2017 BlogTalkRadio (Southern Sense) - [Not From My Cold Dead Hands: Cody Wilson & Larry Pratt](http://www.blogtalkradio.com/southernsense/2017/01/24/not-from-my-cold-dead-hands-cody-wilson-larry-pratt) +* 25-Jan-2017 The Verge - [The New Radical, Cody Wilson, and the Future of 3D-Printed Guns](https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14380730/the-new-radical-cody-wilson-tech-anarchy-documentary-sundance-2017) by Tasha Robinson +* 05-Mar-2017 The Sydney Morning Herald - [3D printed gun plans downloaded by thousands of Australians says Cody Wilson](http://www.smh.com.au/national/thousands-of-aussies-download-instructions-on-how-to-make-a-3d-gun-20170302-gupd5w.html) by Julie Power +* 25-Mar-2017 The Crypto Show on Youtube - [Cody Wilson on the film "The New Radical"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUJujvNHlc) +* 08-Mar-2017 Ammoland - [Cody Wilson Interview – Is He Any Less Dangerous?](https://www.ammoland.com/2017/03/cody-wilson-interview/#axzz4qa7IPcT9) by John Crump +* 09-May-2017 The Crypto Show on Youtube - [Lyn Ulbricht & Cody Wilson on American Kingpin a hit piece littered with lies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFGizWeQ5s) +* 20-Jun-2017 WBAP Talk Radio - [Chris Salcedo: Cody Wilson Interview on Guns](http://www.wbap.com/2017/06/20/chris-salcedo-cody-wilson-interview-on-guns/) +* 18-Aug-2017 Activist Post - [Purge Begins: Cloudflare Terminates Service To Cody Wilson’s GhostGunner Website](http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/purge-begins-cloudflare-terminates-service-to-cody-wilsons-ghostgunner-website.html) +* 18-Aug-2017 PJMedia.com - [Alt-Tech Bad Boy Cody Wilson Explains Hatreon, an Alternative to Online Censorship](https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/18/hatreon-alt-tech-bad-boy-cody-wilsons-alternative-to-online-censorship/) by Megan Fox +* 01-Oct-2017 CoinDesk - [Guns & Crypto: How Bitcoin Is Helping Keep Cody Wilson's Anarchist Dream Alive](https://www.coindesk.com/guns-crypto-bitcoin-helping-keep-cody-wilsons-anarchist-dream-alive/?utm_content=buffer53f56&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) diff --git a/_people/cory-fields.md b/_people/cory-fields.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..931db48 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/cory-fields.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Cory Fields +description: "Bitcoin Core developer, Holds the number 4 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)" +permalink: /people/cory-fields +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Cory Fields + +_placeholder_ + +## Links + +* _placeholder_ diff --git a/_people/craig-wright.md b/_people/craig-wright.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b36e9f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/craig-wright.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Craig Wright +description: "Claimed to be Satoshi, provided fraudulent proof, when called out couldn't/didn't-want-to provide a real one" +permalink: /people/craig-wright +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Craig Wright + +From wikipedia: + +> Craig Steven Wright (born October 1970) is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He claims to be the real person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto—the creator of bitcoin—a claim that is disputed within the bitcoin community. + +> In December 2015, two parallel investigations by Wired and Gizmodo alleged that Wright may have been the inventor of bitcoin. Subsequent reporting, however, raised serious concerns that Wright was engaged in an elaborate hoax. + +> Hours after Wired published their allegations, Wright's home in Gordon, New South Wales and an associated business premise in Ryde, Sydney were raided by the Australian Federal Police. According to the AFP, the raid was part of an Australian Tax Office investigation. + +> On 2 May 2016, Wright publicly claimed to be the creator of bitcoin. This claim was corroborated by Bitcoin Foundation founding director Jon Matonis in a blog post, stating "For cryptographic proof in my presence, Craig signed and verified a message using the private key from block #1 newly-generated coins and from block #9 newly-generated coins (the first transaction to Hal Finney)." Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik agreed that evidence provided by Wright does not prove anything, and security researcher Dan Kaminsky in his blog concluded Wright's claim was a scam. Jordan Pearson and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai said that "Wright simply reused an old signature from a bitcoin transaction performed in 2009 by Satoshi." + +> Afterwards, Wright said that he decided not to present any further evidence to prove that he is the creator of bitcoin. In a message posted on his website, Wright wrote: + +> I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot. When the rumours began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this. I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I’m sorry. And goodbye. + +> Earlier in an exclusive interview with BBC, Wright had promised to give "extraordinary proof to an extraordinary claim." + +## Links + +* [The Craig Wright Affair (and other attempts to identify Satoshi)'s entry in this repository](events/craig_wright_satoshi.md) +* [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 +* 09-May-2017 CoinDesk - [Where is Gavin Andresen? The Quiet Exile of Bitcoin's Former Face](https://www.coindesk.com/where-is-gavin-andresen-the-quiet-exile-of-bitcoins-former-face/) by Bailey Reutzel diff --git a/_people/dave-kleiman.md b/_people/dave-kleiman.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5748722 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/dave-kleiman.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Dave Kleiman +description: "Candidate for [Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md), Forsensic Computer Investigator, Security researcher, Friend of [Craig Wright](people/craig_wright.md)" +permalink: /people/dave-kleiman +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Dave Kleiman + +From wikipedia: + +> Dave Kleiman (1967 – April 26, 2013) was a noted Forensic Computer Investigator, an author/coauthor of multiple books and a noted speaker at security related events. He died in his home in April 2013 of complications from MRSA. + +> For a number of years in the 1990s, Kleiman was a sworn law enforcement officer for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO). While there, he attained the rank of detective. Also, while at the PBSO, he worked as a System Security Analyst in the Computer Crimes Division and also helped set up the Computer Forensics Lab. + +> Dave Kleiman was a regular contributor to a wide array of online forums and mailing lists where he assisted network engineers and other IT professionals of varying levels in solving their issues, regardless of the level of difficulty involved. Kleiman was also well known as an advisor to engineering professionals in numerous industries. + +> Dave also regularly volunteered his time and expertise assisting local and federal law enforcement agencies in cases both domestic and international in scope. + +> He was the creator of the "one-shot server lockdown utility" S-lok for Microsoft Windows servers. + +> On January 1, 2007 he was named a Microsoft MVP for Windows – Security. + +> On December 8, 2015 Gizmodo reported that Dave Kleiman may have been involved in the invention of bitcoin based on information uncovered in several leaked documents. + +> The Economist article had Craig Steven Wright claiming he (under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto) and Dave Kleiman were behind the invention of bitcoin. + +## Links + +* [Dave Kleiman on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman) +* 09-Dec-2015 Gizomodo.com - [The Strange Life and Death of Dave Kleiman, A Computer Genius Linked to Bitcoin's Origins](http://gizmodo.com/the-strange-life-and-death-of-dave-kleiman-a-computer-1747092460) by Andy Cush +* 03-May-2016 /r/bitcoin - [David Kleiman, Craig Wright's friend more likely Satoshi Nakamoto](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hq3rz/david_kleiman_craig_wrights_friend_more_likely/) +* 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/david-chaum.md b/_people/david-chaum.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e404993 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/david-chaum.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: David Chaum +description: "Cryptographer and ideological forefather of the Cypherpunk movement" +permalink: /people/david-chaum +people-groups: [] +--- + +# David Chaum + +While not a Cypherpunk himself, Chaum's research papers were essentially the founding documents of the Cypherpunk movement. + +From wikipedia: + +> David Lee Chaum (born 1955) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is famous for developing ecash, an electronic cash application that aims to preserve a user’s anonymity. He has also invented many cryptographic protocols and founded DigiCash, an electronic money corporation. His 1981 paper, "Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms", laid the groundwork for the field of anonymous communications research + +## Links + +_TODO: Go through list of publications on Chaum's site and link the available ones_ + +* [David Chaum on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum) +* [List of Publications on Chaum's Personal Website](http://www.chaum.com/publications/publications.html#swi) +* 1981-Present - [List of Research Papers by David Chaum](http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chaum:David) - _Unfortunately most, if not all, require payment to access. Googling the title + "pdf" may yield a link but it's not guaranteed_ +* 1981 Research Paper - [Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/untraceable-electronic-mail.pdf) by David Chaum +* 1982 Research Paper - [Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments](http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF) by David Chaum +* Oct 1985 Research Paper (Communications of the ACM) - [Security Without Idenfitication: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete](https://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/pub/secsem/chaum1985bigbrother.pdf) by David Chaum +* 1988 Research Paper - [The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability](https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nemo/anonymity/papers/chaum-dc.pdf) by David Chaum +* 1989 Research Paper - [Online Cash Checks](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/online-cash-checks/) by David Chaum +* 1992 Scientific American - [Achieving Electronic Privacy](http://www.chaum.com/publications/ScientificAmerican-AEP.pdf) by David Chaum +* 01-Dec-1994 Wired Magazine - [E-Money (That's What I Want)](https://www.wired.com/1994/12/emoney/) +* 06-Jan-2016 Wired Magazine - [The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War](https://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/) by Andy Greenberg +* 07-Jan-2016 Business Insider - [There's a huge debate over an encryption expert's plan solve the problem of online privacy](http://www.businessinsider.com/david-chaum-privategrity-proposal-furious-debate-privacy-cryptography-privacy-cmix-2016-1?IR=T) by Rob Price diff --git a/_people/david-d-friedman.md b/_people/david-d-friedman.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..817334f --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/david-d-friedman.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: David D. Friedman +description: "Son of Milton, Anarcho-Capitalist theorist, \"Crypto-Anarchy\" draws a lot from his work" +permalink: /people/david-d-friedman +people-groups: [] +--- + +# David D. Friedman + +David D. Friedman is Milton and Rose Friedman's son. + +From wikipedia: + +> David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Besides The Machinery of Freedom, he has authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008). + +> David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1965, with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. He later earned a master's (1967) and a Ph.D. (1971) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago. Despite his later career, he never took a class for credit in either economics or law. He is currently a professor of law at Santa Clara University, and a contributing editor for Liberty magazine. He is an atheist. His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and market anarchism, particularly seasteading. + +> In his book The Machinery of Freedom (1973), Friedman sketched a form of anarcho-capitalism where all goods and services including law itself can be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by Murray Rothbard, where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved in setting up the anarcho-capitalist society. Friedman advocates an incrementalist approach to achieve anarcho-capitalism by gradual privatization of areas that government is involved in, ultimately privatizing law and order itself. In the book, he states his opposition to violent anarcho-capitalist revolution. + +> He advocates a consequentialist version of anarcho-capitalism, arguing for anarchism on a cost-benefit analysis of state versus no state. It is contrasted with the natural-rights approach as propounded most notably by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard. + +## Links + +* [David D. Friedman on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Friedman) +* [David D. Friedman's Blog](http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/) +* [David D. Friedman's Personal Website](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/) +* 1973 DavidDFriedman.com (Full Book) - [The Machinery of Freedom](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf) by David D. Friedman +* 04-May-2000 DavidDFriedman.com - [Contracts in Cyberspace](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/contracts_in_%20cyberspace/contracts_in_cyberspace.htm) +* 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) diff --git a/_people/edward-snowden.md b/_people/edward-snowden.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6acd25f --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/edward-snowden.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Edward Snowden +description: "Former NSA contractor turned leaker, is clearly inspired by Cypherpunk ideals" +permalink: /people/edward-snowden +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Edward Snowden + +From wikipedia: + +> Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. + +> In 2013, Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA. On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii, and in early June he revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill. Snowden came to international attention after stories based on the material appeared in The Guardian and The Washington Post. Further disclosures were made by other publications including Der Spiegel and The New York Times. + +> On June 21, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property. Two days later, he flew into Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, but Russian authorities noted that his U.S. passport had been cancelled and he was restricted to the airport terminal for over one month. Russia ultimately granted him right of asylum for one year, and repeated extensions have permitted him to stay at least until 2020. He reportedly lives in an undisclosed location in Moscow, and continues to seek asylum elsewhere in the world. + +> A subject of controversy, Snowden has been variously called a hero, a whistleblower, a dissident, a traitor and a patriot. His disclosures have fueled debates over mass surveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy. + +## Links + +* [Edward Snowden on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden) +* [@Snowden on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Snowden) +* [CitizenFour (2014 Documentary)](http://watchdocumentaries.com/citizenfour/) +* Jun 2013-Present TheGuardian.com - [The NSA Files](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files) +* Jun 2013-Present Archive.org - [Global Surveillance Disclosures - Documents released by and relating to global surveillance.](https://archive.org/details/nsia-snowden-documents) diff --git a/_people/eric-hughes.md b/_people/eric-hughes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a2a9f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/eric-hughes.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Eric Hughes +description: "Founding member of the Cypherpunk Mailing List," +permalink: /people/eric-hughes +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Eric Hughes + +From wikipedia: + +> Eric Hughes is an American mathematician, computer programmer, and cypherpunk. He is considered one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, alongside Timothy C. May and John Gilmore. He is notable for founding and administering the Cypherpunk mailing list, authoring A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, creating and hosting the first anonymous remailer, and coining the motto, "Cypherpunks write code". + +> The May/June 1993 issue of Wired featured a cover photo of three masked cypherpunks, of which Hughes was one. + +> On September 27, 2012, Hughes delivered the keynote address, Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers, at the Amsterdam CryptoParty. + +## Links + +* [Eric Hughes on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hughes_%28cypherpunk%29) +* 22-Nov-1992 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [Crypto Glossary](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/crypto-glossary.txt) by Eric Hughes and [Timothy C. May](/people/timothy_c_may.md) +* 09-Mar-1993 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [A Cypherpunk's Manifesto](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html) by Eric Hughes - _the phrase "Cypherpunks write code" comes from this document_ diff --git a/_people/eric-voorhees.md b/_people/eric-voorhees.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7db7c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/eric-voorhees.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Eric Voorhees +description: "Former BitInstant employee, Founder of Coinapult, Outspoken pundit, Ideological convictions" +permalink: /people/eric-voorhees +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Eric Voorhees + +_placeholder_ + +## Links + +* _placeholder_ diff --git a/_people/gavin-andresen.md b/_people/gavin-andresen.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26febb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/gavin-andresen.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Gavin Andresen +description: "[Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md)'s successor, Managed the project after [Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md)'s departure until 2014. He lost write-access to [bitcoin/bitcoin](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) in mid-2016 during a political row, Holds the number 5 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)" +permalink: /people/gavin-andresen +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Gavin Andresen + +From wikipedia: + +> Gavin Andresen (born Gavin Bell) is a software developer best known for his involvement with Bitcoin. He is based in Amherst, Massachusetts. + +> Originally a developer of 3D graphics and virtual reality software, he became involved in developing products for the Bitcoin market in 2010, and by 2011 was designated by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, as lead developer on Bitcoin Core, the reference implementation for Bitcoin client software. In 2012 he founded the Bitcoin Foundation to support and nurture the development of the Bitcoin currency, and by 2014 left his software development role to concentrate on his work with the Foundation. + +> Andresen graduated from Princeton University in 1988. He began his career working on 3D graphics software at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems. In 1996, he co-authored the VRML 2.0 specification, and later published a reference manual for VRML 2.0. + +> Since leaving Silicon Valley in 1996, Andresen has tackled a wide variety of software-related ventures, including CTO of an early voice-over-the-Internet startup and co-founder of a company that made multiplayer online games for blind people and their sighted friends. + +> Prior to 2014 Andresen was the lead developer for a part of the bitcoin digital currency project, working to create a secure, stable "cash for the Internet." Andresen discovered bitcoin in 2010, quickly recognising the brilliance of its design. Soon after he created a website called the Bitcoin Faucet which gave away bitcoin. In April 2011, Forbes quoted Andresen as saying, "Bitcoin is designed to bring us back to a decentralized currency of the people," and "this is like better gold than gold." He was soon designated by the inventor of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto to lead development of the client software for the bitcoin network which is now known as Bitcoin Core. + +> Andresen also created ClearCoin, an escrow-type of service, which was closed c. June 23, 2011. After several years working on the software, Andresen left the role of lead developer of bitcoin to work on the strategic development of its technology. He conceived of the Bitcoin Foundation which became reality in 2012. + +> Gavin initially stated he believed that Craig Wright was the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, but later retracted this statement. As of June 2017, he has not contributed to Bitcoin Core since February 2016. His commit access was revoked in May 2016. + +## Links + +* [Gavin Andresen on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen) +* [@gavinandresen on Twitter](https://twitter.com/gavinandresen) +* [gavinandresen.ninja - Personal Blog](http://gavinandresen.ninja/) +* 31-Aug-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB94 – Gavin Andresen: On The Blocksize And Bitcoin's Governance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l11q9hsJM) +* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Panel Discussion-DevCore Draper University 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQSRGT3nfE) with [Andreas Antonopoulos](/people/andreas_antonopoulos.md), [Matt Corallo](/people/matt_corallo.md) and [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory_maxwell.md) +* 05-Mar-2017 CryptoCoinsNews - [Bitcoin Dev Gavin Andresen: Samson Mow and Greg Maxwell = “Toxic Trolls”](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/gavin-andresen-samson-mow-and-greg-maxwell-toxic-trolls/) by P. H. Madore +* 09-May-2017 CoinDesk - [Where is Gavin Andresen? The Quiet Exile of Bitcoin's Former Face](https://www.coindesk.com/where-is-gavin-andresen-the-quiet-exile-of-bitcoins-former-face/) by Bailey Reutzel +* 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 ? diff --git a/_people/gregory-maxwell.md b/_people/gregory-maxwell.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..faa78d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/gregory-maxwell.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Gregory Maxwell +description: "Bitcoin Core Developer, Blockstream CTO, Controversial figure to the Big Block political faction" +permalink: /people/gregory-maxwell +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Gregory Maxwell + +Blockstream.com team bio: + +> Greg was one of the key architects of the two-way peg which makes sidechains possible. He has been a Bitcoin core developer since 2011, and is one of the most active reviewers of cryptographic protocol proposals in the Bitcoin industrial ecosystem. He has contributed to many widely-used techniques in the Bitcoin space, such as the homomorphic key derivation used in BIP32 and trustless privacy-preserving techniques such as CoinJoin and blinded proof of solvency. Greg is a long-time free software developer and comes to Blockstream from Mozilla where he contributed to the Daala video compression project and coauthored the Opus audio codec (RFC 6716). He also has over 15 years of experience developing, implementing and operating embedded systems and protocols for large-scale networking. For many in the Bitcoin community, Greg is likely the person telling you that your protocol is broken and why, but he usually feels pretty bad about it. + +## Links + +* [Gregory Maxwell on Blockstream.com/team/](https://blockstream.com/team/greg-maxwell/) +* [nullc on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/nullc) +* [Gregory Maxwell on GitHub](https://github.com/gmaxwell) +* 29-Dec-2014 CoinDesk - [Gregory Maxwell: How I Went From Bitcoin Skeptic to Core Developer](https://www.coindesk.com/gregory-maxwell-went-bitcoin-skeptic-core-developer/) by Daniel Cawrey +* 03-Feb-2015 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB65 – Adam Back & Greg Maxwell: Sidechains Unchained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_elgnIw3M) with [Adam Back](/people/adam_back.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) +* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Panel Discussion-DevCore Draper University 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQSRGT3nfE) with [Andreas Antonopoulos](/people/andreas_antonopoulos.md), [Matt Corallo](/people/matt_corallo.md) and [Gavin Andresen](/people/gavin_andresen.md) +* 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) +* 03-Feb-2016 news.bitcoin.com - [The Curious Case of Gregory Maxwell & The Lightning Network](https://news.bitcoin.com/the-curious-case-of-gregory-maxwell-and-the-lightning-network/) by Jean-Pierre Buntinx +* 05-Mar-2017 CryptoCoinsNews - [Bitcoin Dev Gavin Andresen: Samson Mow and Greg Maxwell = “Toxic Trolls”](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/gavin-andresen-samson-mow-and-greg-maxwell-toxic-trolls/) by P. H. Madore +* 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 +* 13-Apr-2017 CoinDesk - [From AsicBoost to UASF: Greg Maxwell on Bitcoin's Path Forward](https://www.coindesk.com/asicboost-uasf-greg-maxwell-bitcoins-path-forward/) by Alyssa Hertig +* 14-Apr-2017 BitcoinTalk - [Greg Maxwell doesn't support BIP 148 UASF](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1870015.0) +* 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 ? +* 09-Sep-2017 CoinJournal.net - [Greg Maxwell on the Prospects of SegWit2x And Why Bitcoin Developers May Leave The Project If It Succeeds](https://coinjournal.net/greg-maxwell-prospects-segwit2x-bitcoin-developers-may-leave-project-succeeds/amp/) by Kyle Torpey diff --git a/_people/hal-finney.md b/_people/hal-finney.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88ffed4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/hal-finney.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Hal Finney +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Received first Bitcoin transaction (from [Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md)), Strong candidate for [Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md)" +permalink: /people/hal-finney +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Hal Finney + +From wikipedia: + +> Harold Thomas Finney II (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games. He also was an early bitcoin user and received the first bitcoin transaction from bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto. + +> After graduation from Caltech, he went to work in the computer gaming field for a company that developed video games such as Adventures of Tron, Armor Ambush, Astroblast and Space Attack. He later went to work for the PGP Corporation with whom he remained until his retirement in 2011. + +> Finney was a noted cryptographic activist. During the early 1990s, in addition to being a regular poster on the cypherpunks listserv, Finney ran two anonymous remailers. Further cryptographic activism included running a (successful) contest to break the export-grade encryption Netscape used. + +> In 2004, Finney created the first reusable proof of work system before bitcoin. In January 2009, Finney was the bitcoin network's first transaction recipient. + +> He was an early bitcoin user and received the first bitcoin transaction from bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney lived in the same town for 10 years that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto lived, adding to speculation that he may have been Bitcoin's creator. Finney denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. + +> In March 2013, Finney posted on a bitcoin forum BitcoinTalk that he was essentially paralyzed, but continued to program. He continued to program until his death; he was working on experimental software called bcflick, which uses Trusted Computing to strengthen bitcoin wallets. + +> During the last year of his life, the Finneys received anonymous calls demanding an extortion fee of 1,000 bitcoin. They became victims of swatting — a hoax "where the perpetrator calls up emergency dispatch using a spoofed telephone number and pretends to have committed a heinous crime in the hopes of provoking an armed police response to the victim’s home". + +> In October 2009, Finney announced in an essay on the blog Less Wrong that he had been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in August 2009. Prior to his illness, Finney had been an active runner. Finney and his wife Fran Finney raised money for ALS research with the Santa Barbara International Marathon. + +> Hal Finney died in Phoenix August 28, 2014 and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. + +## Quotes from Finney on the Cypherpunk Mailing List + +> It seemed so obvious to me; Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them. + +— Cypherpunks Mailing List in 1992. + +## Links + +* [Hal Finney on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)) +* [@halfin on Twitter](https://twitter.com/halfin) +* 19-Aug-1993 Cypherpunk Mailing List (I think) - [Digital Cash & Privacy](http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/dig_cash_priv.html) by Hal Finney +* 15-Oct-1993 (Rev. 13-Mar-1996) www.finney.org/~hal/ (Web Archive) - [Detecting Double Spending](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/detecting-double-spending/) by Hal Finney +* 30-Mar-1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List (I think) - [PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions](http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/web_of_trust.html) by Hal Finney +* 15-Aug-2004 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work](https://cryptome.org/rpow.htm) by [Hal Finney](/people/hal_finney.md) - _[link to archive of RPOW website](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html)_, _[link to archive of RPOW codebase](https://github.com/NakamotoInstitute/RPOW)_ +* 06-Dec-2006-12-Nov-2010 LessWrong.org - [HalFinney's Posts on LessWrong.com](http://lesswrong.com/user/HalFinney/overview) +* 05-Oct-2009 LessWrong.com - [Dying Outside](http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ab/dying_outside/) by Hal Finney +* 30-Nov-2010-09-Aug-2013 BitcoinTalk.org - [Hal's Posts on BitcoinTalk](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436;sa=showPosts) +* 19-Mar-2013 BitcoinTalk.org - [Bitcoin and me](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0) by Hal Finney diff --git a/_people/ian-grigg.md b/_people/ian-grigg.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a4e258 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/ian-grigg.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Ian Grigg +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Inventor of Ricardian Contracts" +permalink: /people/ian-grigg +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Ian Grigg + +Twitter bio: + +> fighting for the user, issuing her assets since 1995. Assets are soft, users are hard. The issue isn't the asset, the issue is you. + +## Links + +* [@iang_fc on Twitter](https://twitter.com/iang_fc) +* [financialcryptography.com](http://financialcryptography.com/) +* 1998-2000 iang.org - [Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers](http://iang.org/papers/fc7.html) by Ian Grigg +* 06-Jul-2004 iang.org - [The Ricardian Contract](http://iang.org/papers/ricardian_contract.html) by Ian Grigg +* 25-Dec-2005 iang.org - [Triple Entry Accounting](http://iang.org/papers/triple_entry.html) by Ian Grigg diff --git a/_people/jacob-appelbaum.md b/_people/jacob-appelbaum.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..753d274 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/jacob-appelbaum.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Jacob Appelbaum +description: "Friend of Julian Assange, Former Spokesman for Wikileaks, Privacy activist, Former Tor Developer, Currently embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations" +permalink: /people/jacob-appelbaum +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Jacob Appelbaum + +From wikipedia + +> Jacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. He has been employed by the University of Washington, and was a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity. Appelbaum is also known for representing WikiLeaks. He has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei. His journalistic work has been published in Der Spiegel and elsewhere. Appelbaum has repeatedly been targeted by U.S. law enforcement agencies, who obtained a court order for his Twitter account data, detained him at the U.S. border after trips abroad, and seized his laptop and several mobile phones. + +> Under the handle "ioerror", Appelbaum was an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective from 2008 to 2016. He was the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. With several others, he co-founded the Seattle Privacy Coalition, an advocacy group. He worked for Kink.com and Greenpeace, and volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network. + +> The Tor Project and several other organizations ended their association with Appelbaum in June 2016 following several allegations of sexual abuse. Appelbaum has denied the allegations. Various activists and others have publicly supported Appelbaum, voicing concerns about due process, trial by social media, and questioning the reliability of the claims. The affair has had repercussions in the on-line privacy advocacy world. While U.S. news media have treated the allegations as credible, reporting in Germany, where Appelbaum lives, has been sharply critical. No legal action has been taken by either Appelbaum or any accuser. + +## Links + +* [Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum) +* [@ioerror on Twitter](twitter.com/ioerror) diff --git a/_people/jeff-garzik.md b/_people/jeff-garzik.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa69772 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/jeff-garzik.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Jeff Garzik +description: "Former Bitcoin Core developer, Now development lead of SegWit2X hard fork proposal" +permalink: /people/jeff-garzik +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Jeff Garzik + +Former Bitcoin Core developer. Currently (Aug 2017) a figure of controversy due to his role as lead developer for the SegWit2X scaling compromise. + +Medium bio: + +> Husband, father, futurist, author, bitcoin core developer, Linux kernel engineer, cloud computing hacker, armchair foreign policy nerd, kinda sorta libertarian. + +Twitter bio + +> Husband, father, builder, co-founder @BloqInc, proud son of a USMC F-4 pilot. + +## Links + +* [@jgarzik on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jgarzik) +* [Jeff Garzik on Medium](https://medium.com/@jgarzik) +* [Jeff Garzik on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffgarzik/) diff --git a/_people/jihan-wu.md b/_people/jihan-wu.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0317481 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/jihan-wu.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Jihan Wu +description: "Owns Bitmain and operates AntPool (one of the larger Bitcoin pools), ASIC miner manufacturer, Controversial figure along with [Roger Ver](people/roger_ver.md) as figureheads of the big-block/bitcoin-unlimited/bitcoin-cash political faction within the scaling debate" +permalink: /people/jihan-wu +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Jihan Wu + +Twitter bio + +> Co-founder of BITMAIN. Studied Economics and Psychology in Peking University. + +## Links + +* [@JihanWu on Twitter](https://twitter.com/JihanWu) +* 01-May-2017 Investopedia.com - [Who is Jihan Wu, and Does He Basically Control Bitcoin Today?](http://www.investopedia.com/news/who-jihan-wu-and-does-he-basically-control-bitcoin-today/) +* 26-May-2017 Twitter - ["I just read through the BIP148. Looks stupid."](https://twitter.com/JihanWu/status/868157561488367616) +* 26-Aug-2017 CoinTelegraph - [Jihan Wu of Bitmain Confident that Bitcoin Will be Valued $100,000 in 5 years](https://cointelegraph.com/news/jihan-wu-of-bitmain-confident-that-bitcoin-will-be-valued-100000-in-5-years) by Joshua Althauser diff --git a/_people/jim-bell.md b/_people/jim-bell.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e63a202 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/jim-bell.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Jim Bell +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Crypto-anarchist, Author of [Assassination Politics](http://cryptome.org/ap.htm)" +permalink: /people/jim-bell +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Jim Bell + +From wikipedia: + +> James Dalton Bell (born 1958) is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics". Since the publication of the "Assassination Politics" essay, Bell was targeted by the federal government of the United States. He was imprisoned on felony charges of tax evasion in 1997. In 2001, Wired called Bell "[o]ne of the Internet's most famous essayists" and "the world's most notorious crypto-convict". + +## Quotes about Assassination Markets + +> If they continue to work for the government, they deserve it. My suggestion to these people is to quit now and hope for mercy. + +> I once believed it's too bad that there are a lot of people who work for government who are hard-working and honest people who will get hit (by Assassination Politics) and it's a shame, Well, I don't believe that any more. They are all either crooks or they tolerate crooks or they are aware of crooks among their numbers. + +## Links + +* [Jim Bell on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell) +* [Assassination Market on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market) +* [The Jim Bell Project](https://jimbellproject.org) +* 04-Apr-1997 - [Assassination Politics](http://cryptome.org/ap.htm) +* 14-Apr-2000 Wired Magazine - [Crypto-Convict Won't Recant](https://www.wired.com/2000/04/crypto-convict-wont-recant/) +* 14-Apr-2012 bitbutter on Youtube - [Jim Bell's 'Assassination Politics'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT5c8eklvZk) +* 18-Nov-2013 Forbes Magazine - [Meet The 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/#7a17e37b3d9b) by Andy Greenberg - (This is not Jim Bell's work, but clearly someone inspired by him) +* 13-Aug-2016 Anarchast - [Jim Bell Youtube Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0YfUGKlBIQ) +* 07-Oct-2017 World Crypto News Network - [Interview with Jim Bell, Author of Assassination Politics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KLqi1v2zSE) diff --git a/_people/john-gilmore.md b/_people/john-gilmore.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..877c621 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/john-gilmore.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: John Gilmore +description: "Co-founder of the Cypherpunk Mailing List and the Electronic Frontier Foundation" +permalink: /people/john-gilmore +people-groups: [] +--- + +# John Gilmore + +From wikipedia: + +> John Gilmore (born 1955) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project. + +> An outspoken civil libertarian, Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, and others. He was the plaintiff in the prominent case Gilmore v. Gonzales, challenging secret travel-restriction laws. He is also an advocate for drug policy reform. + +> He co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol in 1985, which evolved into DHCP - the primary way local networks assign devices an IP address. + +> Gilmore owns the domain name toad.com, which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains. It was registered on August 18, 1987. He runs the mail server at toad.com as an open mail relay. In October 2002, Gilmore's ISP, Verio, cut off his Internet access for running an open relay, a violation of Verio's terms of service. Many people contend that open relays make it too easy to send spam. Gilmore protests that his mail server was programmed to be essentially useless to spammers and other senders of mass email and he argues that Verio's actions constitute censorship. He also notes that his configuration makes it easier for friends who travel to send email, although his critics counter that there are other mechanisms to accommodate people wanting to send email while traveling. The measures Gilmore took to make his server useless to spammers may or may not have helped, considering that in 2002, at least one mass-mailing worm that sent through open relays—W32.Yaha—had been hardcoded to relay through the toad.com mailserver. + +> Gilmore famously stated of Internet censorship that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it". + +> He unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of secret laws regarding travel security policies in Gilmore v. Gonzales. + +> Gilmore is also an advocate for the relaxing of drug laws, and has given financial support to, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Marijuana Policy Project, Erowid, MAPS, Flex Your Rights, and various other organizations seeking to end the war on drugs. He is a member of the boards of MAPS, the Marijuana Policy Project, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. + +## Links + +* [John Gilmore on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28activist%29) +* [Toad.com - John Gilmore's Personal Website](http://www.toad.com/) +* [Electronic Frontier Foundation entry in this repository](organisations/eff.md) +* [Electronic Frontier Foundation - eff.org](https://www.eff.org/) diff --git a/_people/john-perry-barlow.md b/_people/john-perry-barlow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e84e13 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/john-perry-barlow.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: John Perry Barlow +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Author of \"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace\"" +permalink: /people/john-perry-barlow +people-groups: [] +--- + +# John Perry Barlow + +From wikipedia: + +> John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is Fellow Emeritus at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he has maintained an affiliation since 1998. He has been identified by Time magazine as one of the "School of Rock: 10 Supersmart Musicians". + +## Links + +* [John Perry Barlow on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow) +* [@JPBarlow on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jpbarlow) +* [John Perry Barlow on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/johnperrybarlow) +* 08-Feb-1996 - [A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace](https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence) +* [Electronic Frontier Foundation entry in this repository](organisations/eff.md) +* [Electronic Frontier Foundation - eff.org](https://www.eff.org/) diff --git a/_people/jonas-schnelli.md b/_people/jonas-schnelli.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..322a240 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/jonas-schnelli.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Jonas Schnelli +description: "Bitcoin Core developer, Holds the number 6 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)" +permalink: /people/jonas-schnelli +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Jonas Schnelli + +_placeholder_ + +## Links + +* _placeholder_ diff --git a/_people/juan-benet.md b/_people/juan-benet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68f93e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/juan-benet.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Juan Benet +description: "Creator of the IPFS Protocol (InterPlanetary FileSystem) an attempt to build a content-addressed web, Also behind the FileCoin IPFS incentive layer" +permalink: /people/juan-benet +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Juan Benet + +_placeholder_ + +## Links + +* 24-Jul-2014 IPFS.io - [IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System (DRAFT 3)](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7zrJa3LX/ipfs.draft3.pdf) by Juan Benet +* 14-Aug-2017 Filecoin.io - [Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network](https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf) diff --git a/_people/julian-assange.md b/_people/julian-assange.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f0267c --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/julian-assange.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Julian Assange +description: "Founder of Wikileaks, Member of Cypherpunk Mailing List in its heyday" +permalink: /people/julian-assange +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Julian Assange + +From wikipedia: + +>Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɒnʒ/; born Julian Paul Hawkins, 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation which he founded in 2006. He has won accolades including the Sam Adams Award and Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. + +> Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but came to global prominence in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Collateral Murder video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance. + +> In November 2010, a request was made for Assange's extradition to Sweden, where he had been questioned months earlier over allegations of sexual assault and rape. Assange continued to deny the allegations, and expressed concern that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States because of his perceived role in publishing secret American documents. Assange surrendered himself to UK police on 7 December 2010, and was held for ten days in solitary confinement before being released on bail. Having been unsuccessful in his challenge to the extradition proceedings, he breached his bail and absconded. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012. He has since remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, and is free to leave, although it is likely that he would then be arrested for the criminal offence of breaching his bail conditions. On 19 May 2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped the investigation into rape accusations against Assange and applied to revoke his arrest warrant, although the Metropolitan Police have indicated that an arrest warrant is still in force for Assange's failure to surrender himself to the British court. + +## Links + +*There are just an enourmous amount of sources available on Julian, if anyone could help me compile them with a PR I would really appreciate it* + +* [Julian Assange on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange) +* [Wikileaks on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks) +* [wikileaks.org](https://wikileaks.org/) +* [Julian Assange on Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_Assange) +* 1995-2002 - [Julian Assange's messages to the Cypherpunk Mailing List](https://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm) +* 27-Dec-2010 Wired Magazine - [2010: The Year the Internet Went to War](https://www.wired.com/2010/12/internet-war/) by David Kravets +* Oct 2013 Vanity Fair [The Man Who Came to Dinner](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2013/10/julian-assange-hideout-ecuador) by Sarah Ellison +* 18-Oct-2016 The Telegraph (UK) - [Ecuador 'cuts Julian Assange's internet access' after Hillary Clinton leaks](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/18/ecuador-cuts-julian-assanges-internet-access-after-hillary-clint/) +* 21-Aug-2017 New Yorker Magazine - [Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/julian-assange-a-man-without-a-country) by Raffi Khatchadourian diff --git a/_people/luke-jr.md b/_people/luke-jr.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7301d74 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/luke-jr.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Luke-jr +description: "Bitcoin Core developer, Blockstream employee, A figure of controversy to the Big Block faction" +permalink: /people/luke-jr +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Luke-jr + +Currently holds the number 7 position on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors). Appears to hold some unusual views that include a belief in a geocentric model of the solar system. Very controversial figure to the Big Block camp. He was also in trouble for packaging address blocklists by default into the bitcoin package he maintained for one of the linux distros. He stated that the blocklist should have be optional and wasn't meant to be enabled by default. + +## Links + +* [@lukedashjr on Twitter](https://twitter.com/lukedashjr) +* [luke-jr on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/luke-jr/) +* [luke-jr on GitHub](https://github.com/luke-jr) +* [Luke-Jr's posts on BitcoinTalk](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3318;sa=showPosts) diff --git a/_people/mark-karpeles.md b/_people/mark-karpeles.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6f7200 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/mark-karpeles.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Mark Karpelès +description: "Former CEO of the doomed MtGox exchange, Suspected to have caused the Nov 13 bubble with two trading bots, Former Bitcoin Foundation board member" +permalink: /people/mark-karpeles +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Mark Karpelès + +From wikipedia: + +> Mark Marie Robert Karpelès (born June 1, 1985), also sometimes known by his online alias MagicalTux, was the CEO of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. He moved to Japan in 2009. + +> Karpelès was born in 1985 in Chenôve, France, the child of Anne-Robert Karpelès, a geologist. He was raised in Dijon. Between 1995 and 2000, Karpelès was educated at Collège Prieuré de Binson in Châtillon-sur-Marne, near Dormans. He then spent one year at Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris, before completing his education in 2003 at Lycée Louis Armand in Paris. + +> According to Karpelès' LinkedIn page, he worked from 2003 to 2005 at Linux Cyberjoueurs as a software developer and network administrator. Karpelès is a PHP developer, and has contributed to the language's official repository of extensions with proctitle, which allows the name of the current process to be changed on Linux systems, as well as developing a fully functional DNS server and an inetd, also both in PHP. + +> From 2002 to 2005 Karpelès was involved in the Ragnarok Online community, hosting and administering a private server (French Ragnarok Online, shortened as fRO, mimicking the official kRO, jRO and eRO naming). During this time he particiapted in the development of the Ragnarok Online server emulators Freya and then Nezumi. Before becoming a fork of Freya, Nezumi initially started as a clean-room PHP implementation of the server part of the game, aiming at improving performance, stability, portability, and resource use notably compared to the then current eAthena and jAthena servers, as well as making the hosting of such servers legal instead of using leaked AEGIS server builds. Karpelès tried to bootstrap a hosting organisation named Ookoo (then pivoting into ff.st) which also served to host the private server community and development resources (such as the homepage, forums, IRC, SVN, and bug tracker). ookoo.org and ff.st would later fall under Tibanne's umbrella until each domain expired. + +> Karpelès founded Tibanne Co. Ltd. in 2009. He is CEO. He was a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, created in 2012 with a mission to standardize and promote bitcoin, and served on its board until February 2014. + +> Karpelès acquired 88% of the Tokyo-based company Mt. Gox from programmer Jed McCaleb in 2011. Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in Japan on February 28, 2014 and for Chapter 15, Title 11, United States Code bankruptcy in the United States (Texas) in March 2014. + +> Karpelès was subpoenaed by the United States Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to appear in Washington, D.C. to provide testimony on April 18, 2014. Karpelès, in a court filing by Mt. Gox lawyers, responded that he did not have a lawyer for this matter and therefore declined to appear. Karpelès sought to appear in D.C. to testify on May 5, 2014. + +> According to a joint report by Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica and Pierre Alonso of Le Monde, Karpelès was found guilty of fraud when he was tried in absentia in France in 2010. He also admitted to having "pirated" a server to French authorities. He was sentenced to a year in jail but has not yet served his sentence. + +> Ross William Ulbricht, while on trial for operating the undercover Silk Road marketplace, claimed in 2015 that the pseudonymous "Dread Pirate Roberts" behind Silk Road was not him but Mark Karpelès. Karpelès publicly denied the claim on Twitter, and Ulbricht was eventually found guilty. + +> Karpelès was arrested on 1 August 2015 by Japanese police on suspicion of having accessed the exchange's computer system to falsify data on its outstanding balance, he was re-arrested and allegedly charged with embezzlement. + +> Karpelès was released on bail in July 2016, but must remain in Japan. + +## Links + +* [The Collapse of Mt Gox (The Final Goxxing)'s entry in this repository](/events/mtgox.md) +* [Mark Karpelès on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s) +* [@MagicalTux on Twitter](https://twitter.com/MagicalTux) +* [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) + diff --git a/_people/martin-hellman.md b/_people/martin-hellman.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9fa282 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/martin-hellman.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Martin Hellman +description: "Cryptographer, Co-creater of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with [Whitfield Diffie](people/whitfield_diffie.md)" +permalink: /people/martin-hellman +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Martin Hellman + +From wikipedia: + +> Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to the computer privacy debate, has applied risk analysis to a potential failure of nuclear deterrence, and (as of July 2016) is writing a book with his wife that links stopping fighting at home to bringing peace to the planet. + +> Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to take his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he received a master's degree and a Ph.D. in the discipline in 1967 and 1969. + +> From 1968 to 1969 he worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he encountered Horst Feistel. From 1969 to 1971, he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Stanford University electrical engineering department in 1971 as an assistant professor and served on the full-time faculty for twenty-five years before taking emeritus status as a full professor in 1996. + +> Hellman and Whitfield Diffie's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange, although Hellman has argued that it ought to be called Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key exchange because of Merkle's separate contribution. The article stimulated the development of a new class of encryption algorithms, known variously as public key encryption and asymmetric encryption. Hellman and Diffie were awarded the Marconi Fellowship and accompanying prize in 2000 for work on public-key cryptography and for helping make cryptography a legitimate area of academic research, and they were awarded the 2015 Turing Award for the same work. + +> Hellman has been a longtime contributor to the computer privacy debate. He and Diffie were the most prominent critics of the short key size of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in 1975. An audio recording survives of their review of DES at Stanford in 1976 with Dennis Branstad of NBS and representatives of the National Security Agency. Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out. In response to RSA Security's DES Challenges starting in 1997, brute force crackers were built that could break DES, making it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete. In 2012, a $10,000 commercially available machine can recover a DES key in days. + +> Hellman also served (1994–96) on the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy, whose main recommendations have since been implemented. + +## Links + +* [Martin Hellman on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman) +* Nov 1976 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, VOL. IT-22, NO. 6 - [New Directions in Cryptography (Describes Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange)](https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf) by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 1/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYV0z8P_TsI) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 2/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOHgzC69pQ) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 3/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nOsqgIzew) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 4/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1RqiHCAcyA) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 5/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKGkadqle4) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 6/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ezyEIAZyoc) +* 31-Jan-2013 stanfordonline on Youtube - [Martin Hellman: The Wisdom of Foolishness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDgLDsUU7og) +* 13-Feb-2013 Stanford University School of Engineering on Youtube - [Stanford Engineering Hero Martin Hellman on inventing cryptography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caoDRvR2Jo8) +* 31-Jun-2013 Stanford University School of Engineering on Youtube - [Stanford Engineering Hero Martin Hellman Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFiTgOx3Z7A) +* 01-Mar-2016 Stanford News - [Stanford cryptography pioneers Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman win ACM 2015 A.M. Turing Award](http://news.stanford.edu/2016/03/01/turing-hellman-diffie-030116/) +* 20-Jun-2016 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on Youtube - [ACM A.M. Turing Award - Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3JcMetfl00) +* 24-Mar-2016 TechCrunch on Youtube - [Turing Award Winner Martin Hellman On Cryptography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOM8_uPcUKM) +* 02-May-2016 RSA Conference on Youtube - [The Cryptographers' Panel 2016 - Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Whitfield Diffie, Moxie Marlinspike, Martin Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76qLOrna1w) +* 27-Jun-2016 LASCON on Youtube - [Historical Lessons for Improving Cyber Security - Marty Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpi856mWAcc) +* 07-Nov-2016 CCS 2016 on Youtube - [Keynote by Martin Hellman at CCS 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I132wSwAI3o) +* 04-Jul-2017 Heidelberg Laureate Forum on Youtube - [The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents the HLF Portraits: Martin Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpidf7WodbI) diff --git a/_people/matt-corallo.md b/_people/matt-corallo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5e9209 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/matt-corallo.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Matt Corallo +description: "Bitcoin Core developer, Holds the number 3 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)" +permalink: /people/matt-corallo +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Matt Corallo + +Blockstream.com team bio: + +> Matt is a long-time Bitcoin developer and one of Blockstream’s co-founders, having been an author on our sidechain white paper and engineer on its design. He is an active contributor to Bitcoin Core, as well as the creator and maintainer of the Fast Internet Bitcoin Relay Engine (FIBRE), a protocol and implementation designed to relay blocks around the globe at the speed of light. Matt currently works for Chain Code Labs, contributing to Bitcoin Core and other open-source Bitcoin projects full-time and advises Blockstream on a number of technical projects and initiatives. + +## Links + +* [@thebluematt on Twitter](https://twitter.com/thebluematt) +* [Matt Corallo on GitHub](https://github.com/TheBlueMatt) +* [Matt Corallo on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-corallo-45a8367a/) +* [bluematt.bitcoin.ninja - BlueMatt's Blog](http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/) +* 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - [Panel Discussion-DevCore Draper University 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQSRGT3nfE) with [Andreas Antonopoulos](/people/andreas_antonopoulos.md), [Gregory Maxwell](/people/gregory_maxwell.md) and [Gavin Andresen](/people/gavin_andresen.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.md) diff --git a/_people/moxie-marlinspike.md b/_people/moxie-marlinspike.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9ba005 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/moxie-marlinspike.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Moxie Marlinspike (pseudonym) +description: "Cypherpunk, Anarchist, Computer Security Researcher, Founder of Open Whisper Systems and co-author of the Signal Protocol (now also used by WhatsApp), Sailor" +permalink: /people/moxie-marlinspike +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Moxie Marlinspike (pseudonym) + +From wikipedia: + +> Moxie Marlinspike (pseudonym) is an American computer security researcher and cypherpunk. His research has focused primarily on techniques for intercepting communication, as well as methods for strengthening communication infrastructure against interception. Marlinspike is the former head of the security team at Twitter and founder of Open Whisper Systems. He is the author of a proposed SSL authentication system replacement called Convergence, co-author of the Signal Protocol, and a fellow at the Institute for Disruptive Studies. He runs a cloud-based WPA cracking service and manages a targeted anonymity service called GoogleSharing. + +> Marlinspike says that when flying within the United States he is unable to print his own boarding pass, is required to have airline ticketing agents make a phone call in order to issue one, and is subjected to secondary screening at TSA security checkpoints. + +> While entering the United States via a flight from the Dominican Republic in 2010, Marlinspike was detained for five hours; federal agents requested his passwords, and all his electronic devices were confiscated and then returned. + +## Links + +* [Moxie Marlinspike on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike) +* [@moxie on Twitter](https://twitter.com/moxie) +* [moxie.org - Personal Blog](https://moxie.org/) +* [Moxie Marlinspike on GitHub](https://github.com/moxie0) +* [Moxie Marlinspike on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moxie-marlinspike-8771b/) +* [WhisperSystems.org](https://whispersystems.org/) +* 2007 Sailing Documentary - [Hold Fast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwbHYOFD-4) +* 15-Jan-2011 Christiaan008 on Youtube - [DEFCON 17: More Tricks For Defeating SSL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibF36Yyeehw) +* 11-Aug-2011 Christiaan008 on Youtube - [BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA) +* 31-Oct-2011 Christiaan008 on Youtube - [DEFCON 19: Whitfield Diffie and Moxie Marlinspike](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7uW6vDk00) +* 19-Dec-2013 moxie.org - [Blog >> A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers](https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/) +* 27-Mar-2015 Techworld Sverige on Youtube - [Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA) +* 13-Apr-2015 Webstock on Vimeo - [Webstock ‘15: Moxie Marlinspike - Making private communication simple](https://vimeo.com/124887048) +* 09-Jul-2015 The Wall Street Journal - [Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts](https://www.wsj.com/articles/moxie-marlinspike-the-coder-who-encrypted-your-texts-1436486274) by Danny Yadron +* 10-Jul-2015 BGR.com - [Meet the dreadlocked hippie who’s an encryption guru and has the NSA freaking out](http://bgr.com/2015/07/10/moxie-marlinspike-hacker-encryption-nsa-fbi/) by Yoni Heisler +* 06-Dec-2015 CNNMoney on Youtube - [Meet the hacker that spies pay attention to](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQYI8nJPGm8) +* 05-Apr-2016 WhisperSystems.org - [WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete](https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/) by Moxie Marlinspike +* 26-Apr-2016 PopSci.com - [Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone](http://www.popsci.com/moxie-marlinspike-makes-encryption-for-everyone) by Andrew Rosenblum +* 02-May-2016 RSA Conference on Youtube - [The Cryptographers' Panel 2016 - Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Whitfield Diffie, Moxie Marlinspike, Martin Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76qLOrna1w) +* 10-May-2016 WhisperSystems Blog - [Reflections: The ecosystem is moving](https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/) by Moxie Marlinspike +* 31-Jul-2016 Wired Magazine - [Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the Anarchist Bringing Encryption to All of Us](https://www.wired.com/2016/07/meet-moxie-marlinspike-anarchist-bringing-encryption-us/) by Andy Greenberg +* 01-Aug-2016 BoingBoing.net - [A profile of Moxie Marlinspike: the seagoing anarchist cryptographer who brought private messaging to millions](http://boingboing.net/2016/08/01/a-profile-of-moxie-marlinspike.html) by Cory Doctorow +* 07-Nov-2016 - [Signal app-maker rebuts criticism of dev direction by calling for more community help](https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/07/signal-app-maker-rebuts-criticism-of-dev-direction-by-calling-for-more-community-help/) by Natasha Lomas +* 06-Dec-2017 Fortune.com - [This Messaging App Saw a Surge After Trump’s Election](http://fortune.com/2016/12/02/donald-trump-signal-app/) by Jeff John Roberts +* 07-Dec-2016 The New York Times - [Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/technology/personaltech/worried-about-the-privacy-of-your-messages-download-signal.html) by Brian X. Chen +* 21-Dec-2016 Wired Magazine - [Encryption App 'Signal' Fights Censorship With a Clever Workaround](https://www.wired.com/2016/12/encryption-app-signal-fights-censorship-clever-workaround/) by Andy Greenberg +* 23-Dec-2016 TheRegister.co.uk - [Sneaky chat app Signal deploys decoy domains to deny despots](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/23/signal_deploys_domain_deceit_to_deny_censorship/) by Thomas Claburn +* 12-Jan-2017 The Verge - [Signal Boost - Demand for secret messaging apps is rising as Trump takes office](https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14244634/signal-app-secure-messaging-trump-surveillance-encryption) by Lauren Smiley +* 17-Jan-2017 Fortune.com - [Here Are the Most Popular Apps for Secure Messages](http://fortune.com/2017/01/17/most-popular-secure-apps/) by Jeff John Roberts +* 13-Feb-2017 FastCompany.com - [Why Open Whisper Systems Is One Of The Most Innovative Companies Of 2017](https://www.fastcompany.com/3067468/why-open-whisper-systems-is-one-of-the-most-innovative-companies-o) +* 14-Feb-2017 Wired Magazine - [The Best Encrypted Chat App Now Does Video Calls Too](https://www.wired.com/2017/02/encryption-app-signal-enables-video-calls-new-privacy-tradeoff/) by Andy Greenberg +* 07-Mar-2017 NYMag.com - [No, the CIA Hasn’t Compromised Signal and WhatsApp](http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/03/no-the-cia-hasnt-cracked-encrypted-chat-app-signal.html) by Jake Swearingen +* 10-Mar-2017 NPR.com (Radio, with partial Transcript) - [WikiLeaks Reveal Demonstrates Encryption Apps' Vulnerabilities](http://www.npr.org/2017/03/10/519593195/wikileaks-reveal-demonstrates-encryption-apps-have-vulnerabilities) +* 27-Jul-2017 TechCrunch - [Hear dispatches from the frontiers of security and privacy at Disrupt SF 2017](https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/hear-dispatches-from-the-frontiers-of-security-and-privacy-at-disrupt-sf-2017/) by Devin Coldewey +* 21-Aug-2017 The Financial Times - [Financial criminals can hide behind WhatsApp](https://www.ft.com/content/19364166-866c-11e7-8bb1-5ba57d47eff7) by Patrick Jenkins +* 27-Aug-2017 ThreatPost.com - [Zerodium Offers $500K for Secure Messaging App Zero Days](https://threatpost.com/zerodium-offers-500k-for-secure-messaging-app-zero-days/127610/) by Michael Mimoso diff --git a/_people/nick-szabo.md b/_people/nick-szabo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b7c8ff --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/nick-szabo.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Nick Szabo +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Creator of Bitcoin Precursor BitGold, Prolific writer of many important papers, Strong candidate for [Satoshi](people/satoshi_nakamoto.md)" +permalink: /people/nick-szabo +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Nick Szabo + +From wikipedia: + +> Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in computer science. He holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín. + +> The phrase and concept of "smart contracts" was developed by Szabo with the goal of bringing what he calls the "highly evolved" practices of contract law and practice to the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet. Smart contracts are a major feature of cryptocurrency and the programming language E. + +> Szabo influentially argued that a minimum granularity of micropayments is set by mental transaction costs. + +> In 1998, Szabo designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency he called "bit gold". Bit gold was never implemented, but has been called "a direct precursor to the Bitcoin architecture." + +> In Szabo’s bit gold scheme, a participant would dedicate computer power to solving cryptographic puzzles. In a bit gold network, solved puzzles would be sent to the Byzantine fault-tolerant public registry and assigned to the public key of the solver. Each solution would become part of the next challenge, creating a growing chain of new property. This aspect of the system provided a way for the network to verify and time-stamp new coins, because unless a majority of the parties agreed to accept new solutions, they couldn’t start on the next puzzle. + +> When attempting to design transactions with a digital coin, you run into the "double-spending problem." Once data have been created, reproducing them is a simple matter of copying and pasting. Most digital currencies solve the problem by relinquishing some control to a central authority, which keeps track of each account’s balance. This was an unacceptable solution for Szabo. "I was trying to mimic as closely as possible in cyberspace the security and trust characteristics of gold, and chief among those is that it doesn’t depend on a trusted central authority," he said. + +> In 2008, a mysterious figure who wrote under the name Satoshi Nakamoto released a proposal for bitcoin. Nakamoto’s true identity remained a secret, which led to speculation about a long list of people suspected to be Nakamoto. Although Szabo has repeatedly denied it, people have speculated that he is Nakamoto. + +> Research by financial author Dominic Frisby provided circumstantial evidence but, as he admits, no proof that Satoshi is Szabo. Speaking on RT's Keiser Report, he said "I've concluded there is only one person in the whole world that has the sheer breadth but also the specificity of knowledge and it is this chap...". In a July 2014 email to Frisby, Szabo said "Thanks for letting me know. I'm afraid you got it wrong doxing me as Satoshi, but I'm used to it." + +> Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times that "the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo." In 2008, prior to the release of bitcoin, Szabo wrote a comment on his blog about the intent of creating a live version of his hypothetical currency. + +> In 2015, the subsequent blockchain Ethereum named a subunit of the Ethereum value token the "Szabo". + +## Links + +* [Nick Szabo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo) +* [@NickSzabo4 on Twitter](https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4) +* ["Unenumerated", Nick Szabo's Personal Blog](http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/) +* 1993 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Multinational Small Business](http://web.archive.org/web/20160620183937/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/multi_small.html) by Nick Szabo +* 1996 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Negative Reputation](http://web.archive.org/web/20160704085927/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/negative_rep.html) by Nick Szabo +* 1997 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks](http://web.archive.org/web/20160920045707/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/formalize.html) by Nick Szabo +* 1998/1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority](https://web.archive.org/web/20020202165211/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html) by Nick Szabo +* May 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs](http://web.archive.org/web/20160620183941/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/berlinmentalmicro.pdf) by Nick Szabo +* 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Intrapolynomial Cryptography](https://web.archive.org/web/20011217091748/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/intrapoly.html) by Nick Szabo +* 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Contracts with Bearer](http://web.archive.org/web/20160620184022/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/bearer_contracts.html) by Nick Szabo +* 1999 www.theiia.org (Web Archive) - [The God Protocols](http://web.archive.org/web/20061230075325/http://www.theiia.org/ITAudit/index.cfm?act=itaudit.archive&fid=216) by Nick Szabo +* 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes](http://web.archive.org/web/20160705000502/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ttps.html) by Nick Szabo +* 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [A Formal Language for Analyzing Contracts](http://web.archive.org/web/20160810220820/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/contractlanguage.html) by Nick Szabo +* 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Shelling Out: The Origins of Money](http://web.archive.org/web/20160921140955/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html) by Nick Szabo +* 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [The Playdough Protocols](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/the-playdough-protocols/) by Nick Szabo +* 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Measuring Value](http://web.archive.org/web/20160919162114/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/measuringvalue.html) by Nick Szabo +* 2003 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Advances in Distributed Security](http://web.archive.org/web/20160715035054/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/distributed.html) by Nick Szabo +* 2004 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - [Scarce Objects](http://web.archive.org/web/20160620184010/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/scarce.html) by Nick Szabo +* Dec 2005 Unenumerated (Nick Szabo's Blog) - [Bit gold](http://unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk/2005/12/bit-gold.html) +* 30-04-2014 MisesChrist.com - [Satoshi Revealed: An Inside Look at the Man behind Bitcoin](https://miseschrist.com/2014/04/30/satoshi-revealed-an-inside-look-at-the-man-behind-bitcoin/) +* 12-Sep-2015 Let's Talk Bitcoin on Youtube - [Let's Talk Bitcoin! #246 Smart Contracts with Nick Szabo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_msk4-oJZV4) +* 29-Oct-2015 MadBitcoins on Youtube - [Nick Szabo speaks at Bitcoin Investor (Las Vegas)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDO09EVFSmg) +* 09-Nov-2015 BitcoinInvestor on Youtube - [Origins & Future of Bitcoin - Nick Szabo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_yUeuKu7L4) +* 12-Nov-2015 BitcoinInvestor on Youtube - [All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph VaughnPerling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE) +* 14-Nov-2015 How to Create Resilience on Youtube - [Nick Szabo - History of the Blockchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSeOU1VVj4) +* 06-Apr-2016 Swiss Re on Youtube - [Nick Szabo, Global Financial Assets, on bitcoin, blockchain and the benefits of smart contracts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXCOfTteQAo) +* 07-Apr-2016 Lykke on Youtube - [Nick Szabo on Blockchains and Smart Contracts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWuN2R2DC6c) +* 12-Dec-2016 Chamber of Digital Commerce on Youtube - [Nick Szabo - Keynote - Smart Contracts Symposium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_-mxyN4pcY) +* 10-Feb-2017 Bitcoinist.com - [Nick Szabo: Lightning Would Help Bitcoin Retain Censorship Resistance](http://bitcoinist.com/nick-szabo-bitcoin-censorship-resistance/) by William Suberg +* 04-Jun-2017 Tim Ferris's Podcast - [The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo](https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/amp/) _([youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FA3UjA0igY))_ +* 20-Jun-2017 CryptoCoinsNews.com - [Nick Szabo Talks Necessity of Second Layer Blockchain on Top of Bitcoin](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/nick-szabo-talks-necessity-of-second-layer-blockchain-on-top-of-bitcoin/) by Joseph Young diff --git a/_people/paul-calder-le-roux.md b/_people/paul-calder-le-roux.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2b40ed --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/paul-calder-le-roux.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Paul Calder Le Roux +description: "Author of E4M disk-encryption software, Suspected author of TrueCrypt, Former criminal empire boss (in a very Crypto-Anarchist sense), DEA informant, Currently in US Custody" +permalink: /people/paul-calder-le-roux +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Paul Calder Le Roux + +From wikipedia: + +> Paul Calder Le Roux (born December 24, 1972 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). + +> He created E4M, an open-source free Windows disk encryption software program, in 1999, and is a suspected creator of the open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code. Le Roux is currently in US custody for ordering the assassinations of six people. + +## Links + +* [Paul Calder Le Roux on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux) +* 27-Nov-2012 - [Body on Tonga drugs yacht identified](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-27/body-on-tonga-drugs-yacht-identified/4395172) +* 18-Mar-2014 - [North Korean Meth, Motorcycle Gangs, Army Snipers, and a Guy Named Rambo](https://news.vice.com/article/north-korean-meth-motorcycle-gangs-army-snipers-and-a-guy-named-rambo) by Keegan Hamilton +* 11-Dec-2014 Vice News - ['Rambo' Has PTSD: The Strange Case of an International DEA Murder-For-Hire Drug Sting](https://news.vice.com/article/rambo-has-ptsd-the-strange-case-of-an-international-dea-murder-for-hire-drug-sting) by Keegan Hamilton +* 30-Dec-2014 The Daily Mail (UK) - [Revealed, the most successful criminal mastermind you've never heard of: The real-life Bond villain behind a cocaine and gun empire spanning four continents who's now turned super-snitch](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2890164/Revealed-successful-criminal-mastermind-ve-never-heard-real-life-Bond-villain-cocaine-gun-empire-spanning-four-continents-s-turned-super-snitch.html) by Richard Shears +* 10-Mar-2016 Atavist Magazine - [The Mastermind - 7 Part Article Series](https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind) by Evan Ratliff +* 30-Mar-2016 The New Yorker - [The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-strange-origins-of-truecrypt-isiss-favored-encryption-tool) by Evan Ratliff +* 02-Apr-2016 The Australian - [The geek Paul Calder Le Roux, the guns, the drugs and the bodies](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/the-geek-paul-calder-le-roux-the-guns-the-drugs-and-the-bodies/news-story/5e21610c24b36726cf0581f085a09163) by Mark Schliebs +* 18-Apr-2016 Vice News - [Meth, Murder, and the DEA's Mysterious Deal With the 'Most Dangerous Man in the World'](https://news.vice.com/article/paul-le-roux-joseph-hunter-rambo-the-dea-meth-and-cocaine) by Keegan Hamilton +* 31-May-2016 Vice News - ['Rambo' Gets 20 Years for Drug and Murder Plots, but His Boss's Fate Remains a Mystery](https://news.vice.com/article/rambo-joseph-manuel-hunter-sentencing-paul-le-roux) by Keegan Hamilton +* 06-Mar-2017 Star Tribune - [Surprise acquittal for two defendants in international drug trial in St. Paul](http://www.startribune.com/global-drug-investigation-lands-in-st-paul-courtroom-with-acquitttal-for-two/415486574/) +* 07-Mar-2017 Vice News - [Devil of a deal](https://news.vice.com/story/the-deas-deal-with-a-drug-kingpin-wasnt-enough-to-convict-this-israeli-businessman) by Keegan Hamilton diff --git a/_people/peter-todd.md b/_people/peter-todd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd22461 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/peter-todd.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Peter Todd +description: "Bitcoin Core developer, Researcher, Vocal critic within the cryptocurrency space" +permalink: /people/peter-todd +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Peter Todd + +Twitter bio: + +> Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech') PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04, pete@petertodd.org + +## Links + +* [@petertoddbtc on Twitter](https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc) +* [petertodd on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/petertodd) +* [petertodd on GitHub](https://github.com/petertodd) +* [petertodd.org Blog](https://petertodd.org/) +* 09-Jan-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki with Mastercoin's Peter Todd - Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fGPhwVUeug) with [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 10-Jan-2014 Let's Talk Bitcoin - [Amir Taaki with Mastercoin's Peter Todd - Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBsIEySNOiM) with [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 16-Aug-2014 Brave New Books - [Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki guest host The Crypto Show (with Peter Todd)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG5HlETyk7A) with [Cody Wilson](/people/cody_wilson.md) and [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 10-Sep-2014 World Crypto Network - [Chris Before Coffee - Squat with Amir Taaki, Peter Todd, +BraveTheWorld and the Unsystem crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KV0lesSK8) with [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 15-Apr-2015 Daniel Cawrey on Medium.com - [https://medium.com/zapchain-magazine/why-one-bitcoin-developer-thinks-cryptocurrencies-have-a-dreadful-future-93007cff1613](https://medium.com/zapchain-magazine/why-one-bitcoin-developer-thinks-cryptocurrencies-have-a-dreadful-future-93007cff1613) +* 03-Sep-2015 ZapChain on Youtube - [ZapChain Interview with Bitcoin Core Developer Peter Todd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6MUJLJfFc) diff --git a/_people/phil-zimmermann.md b/_people/phil-zimmermann.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebde2ce --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/phil-zimmermann.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Phil Zimmermann +description: "Author of the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Public key encryption software" +permalink: /people/phil-zimmermann +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Phil Zimmermann + +From wikipedia: + +> Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann, Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. Zimmermann is co-founder and Chief Scientist of the global encrypted communications firm, Silent Circle. + +> 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. + +## Links + +* [90s Crypto Wars entry in this repository](/events/90s_crypto_wars.md) +* [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) +* 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/pieter-wuille.md b/_people/pieter-wuille.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..82bdebc --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/pieter-wuille.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Pieter Wuille +description: "Bitcoin Core Developer, Holds the number 2 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors), Blockstream co-founder" +permalink: /people/pieter-wuille +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Pieter Wuille + +Blockstream.com team bio: + +> Pieter discovered Bitcoin in November 2010 and became a member of the Bitcoin Core development team in May 2011. Since then, he has rewritten significant parts of the reference client’s code, in particular to improve performance and code organization. He wrote Bitcoin Improvement Proposals 30, 32, 42 and 62, and is the primary author of libsecp256k1, a library for efficient elliptic curve cryptography for use in Bitcoin. Before Blockstream, Pieter worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Pieter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Leuven, where he focused on programming language design. He grew up in Belgium, but is currently living in Switzerland. In his free time, Pieter likes throwing discs around (not the type used to store the blockchain) and playing board games. + +## Links + +* [@pwuille on Twitter](https://twitter.com/pwuille) +* [Pieter Wuille on GitHub](https://github.com/sipa) +* [Pieter Wuille on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieterwuille/) +* [Pieter Wuille Facts (humorous)](http://pieterwuillefacts.com/) +* 14-Dec-2015 SF Bitcoin Developers on Youtube - [Pieter Wuille: Segregated witness and its impact on scalability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOYNZB5BCHM) +* 29-Mar-2017 SF Bitcoin Developers on Youtube - [Pieter Wuille: New Address Type for SegWit Addresses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqiN9VFE4CU) diff --git a/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md b/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9b90ae --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/ralph-c-merkle.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Ralph C. Merkle +description: "Cryptographer, One of the inventors of Public Key Cryptography, Inventor of the cryptographic hash" +permalink: /people/ralph-c-merkle +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Ralph C. Merkle + +From wikipedia: + +> Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is a computer scientist. He is one of the inventors of public key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker of cryonics. + +> Merkle devised a scheme for communication over an insecure channel: Merkle's puzzles as part of a class project while an undergraduate. The scheme is now recognized to be an early example of public key cryptography. He co-invented the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, invented cryptographic hashing (now called the Merkle–Damgård construction based on a pair of articles published 10 years later that established the security of the scheme), and invented Merkle trees. While at Xerox PARC, Merkle designed the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers, and the Snefru hash function. + +> Merkle was the manager of compiler development at Elxsi from 1980. In 1988, he became a research scientist at Xerox PARC. In 1999 he became a nanotechnology theorist for Zyvex. In 2003 he became a Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, where he led the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. In 2006 he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has been a senior research fellow at IMM, a faculty member at Singularity University, and a board member of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2010. + +## Links + +* [Ralph C. Merkle on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle) +* Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems](http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf) +* Apr 1978 merkle.com - [Secure Communications over Insecure Channels](http://www.merkle.com/1974/Puzzles1975.12.07.pdf) +* 27-Oct-2013 Gideon Samid on Youtube - [Ralph Merkle: Privacy Between Strangers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKpkM7Zeb6U) +* 25-Jul-2016 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB141 – Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvzpvXLbpv4) diff --git a/_people/rick-falkvinge.md b/_people/rick-falkvinge.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21699c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/rick-falkvinge.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Rick Falkvinge +description: "Founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, Political activist, Bitcoiner" +permalink: /people/rick-falkvinge +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Rick Falkvinge + +From wikipedia: + +> Rick Falkvinge (born Dick Greger Augustsson on 21 January 1972) is a Swedish information technology entrepreneur and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He is currently a political evangelist with the party, spreading the ideas across the world. + +> Falkvinge grew up in Ruddalen, Gothenburg, and studied Natural Sciences at Göteborgs Högre Samskola. During his high school years, he was active in Moderat Skolungdom and Moderata Ungdomsförbundet, the youth wings of the Moderaterna party in Sweden. His passion for technology was visible at an early age, and he would spend time as a toddler just pressing doorbell buttons in electronics stores. + +> His first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, where he wasn't content just pressing its buttons, but also opened it up and took it apart, to study its inner workings. He learned how to disable the system calls, and learned all relevant memory positions. His interest for computers as a technological phenomenon was as large as his fascination for the possibility of using computers as tools. He has likened this to amateur radio enthusiasts and their interest for the technology and its applications alike. + +> His VIC-20 would soon be replaced by a Commodore 64, the most sold computer model ever. He started swapping files early, and continued the mixtape tradition with his friends, only using disks instead. He started attending copyparties, where people brought their computer and a box of disks, and copied files between one another: images, games, texts, programs. + +> Falkvinge created his first company, Infoteknik (literally Infotechnology), in 1988 at the age of 16. The inefficiency in administrative business tasks irritated him, and he wanted to digitize the world. + +> In 1994 to 1998, he was active as an entrepreneur with five employees in software development in Gothenburg, Kalmar and Strömsund. + +> Having grown tired of snide remarks about his first name Dick, and above all what he calls the moralism among systems developers who would make it impossible for him to even use his real name online, he changed his first name in 2004 from Dick to Rickard, with just Rick for short. As he changed his first name, he also changed his last name from Augustsson to the current Falkvinge (literally Falconwing). He wanted a unique last name describing his character. He has always been fascinated by birds, and thinks that large raptors symbolize pride, freedom, and vision. + +## Links + +* [Rick Falkvinge on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Falkvinge) +* [@falkvinge on Twitter](https://twitter.com/falkvinge) +* [falkvinge.net](http://falkvinge.net/) diff --git a/_people/roger-ver.md b/_people/roger-ver.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c5d49a --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/roger-ver.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Roger Ver +description: "Early Bitcoin whale and investor, \"The Bitcoin Jesus\", Currently a controversial figure due to his staunch support for the \"Big Block\" faction in the scaling debate and for the \"Bitcoin Cash\" fork-coin, along with [Jihan Wu](people/jihan_wu.md) seen as a figurehead of that faction" +permalink: /people/roger-ver +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Roger Ver + +From wikipedia: + +> Roger Ver (born in February 1979) is a former politician and a Kittitian/Nevisian early investor in bitcoin related startups. He was formerly an American citizen. He was born and lived in Silicon Valley. He now resides in Japan. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and sees bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He identifies as a libertarian, an anarcho-capitalist, peace advocate and advocates for individualism and voluntaryism. + +> He initially did well with a computer parts business, MemoryDealers.com, which saw him become a millionaire by the time he was 25. He was the CEO of MemoryDealers.com from 1999 until 2012. In 2000, he attempted to enter politics by running for California State Assembly as a candidate for the Libertarian Party. + +> He moved to Japan in 2006. He became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis and renounced his United States citizenship in 2014. In 2015, he was denied a visa to reenter the United States by the U.S. Embassy in Barbados, which claimed that he had not sufficiently proven ties outside of the United States that would motivate him to leave at the end of his visit, causing fears he might become an illegal immigrant. Later in the same year his visa was approved by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and he visited the United States in June 2016 to speak at a conference in Denver, Colorado. + +> In June 2016, Ver was appointed the chairman of the Cryptocurrency Advisory Board for MGT Capital Investments. MGT aims to improve cybersecurity and is headed by John McAfee. + +> Ver began investing in bitcoin in early 2011. The first investment he made was for Charlie Shrem’s Bitinstant. Ver's investment allowed the company to hire a designer and another programmer. He invested over a million dollars into new bitcoin related startups including Ripple, Blockchain.info, Bitpay and Kraken. In 2011, Ver's company Memorydealers was the first to accept bitcoin as payment. His early advocacy for bitcoin earned him the moniker of Bitcoin Jesus. + +> In 2012, he created bitcoinstore.com with hundreds of thousands of items available for purchase with bitcoin. In May 2014, an old email account used by Ver was hacked and used in a failed attempt to ransom bitcoin. In late 2015, Ver hosted the largest bitcoin AMA on Reddit. He is the CEO of Bitcoin.com and owns its domain name. + +> In 2012, Ver was organising bitcoin meetups in Sunnyvale. He is one of five founders of the Bitcoin Foundation. Ver wants bitcoin to rival major fiat currencies. He is one of the main proponents of a larger block size. He supported the development of Bitcoin XT as a hard fork method towards an increase. Ver and his high school friend Jesse Powell attempted to re-establish the Mt Gox exchange during the June 2011 bitcoin price crash. + +> On July 17, 2013, Ver created a video addressing Mt.Gox's withdrawal issues. In this video Ver blamed traditional banking system instead of Mt.Gox. + +> Ver said: "I had a nice chat with Mt.Gox CEO, Mark Karpeles, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks and lawyers. I'm sure that all the current withdrawal problems at Mt.Gox are being caused by the traditional banking system, not because of a lack of liquidity at Mt.Gox." + +> Mt.Gox collapsed 7 months after recording this video. 850,000 bitcoins belonging to customers and the company were missing and likely stolen, an amount valued at more than $450 million at the time. + +> Ver writes opinion pieces for bitcoin-related websites and online forums. He has advocated for the widespread adoption of bitcoin software client that allows for an increase in the block chain block size limit. Ver strongly disagrees with the block size limit because it is contrary to his preferred strategy of rapid and widespread growth of bitcoin. Ver wants the use of this currency to be so widespread that an alternative cannot supplant bitcoin's first-mover advantage. He warns of a possible, official government controlled alternative to bitcoin of having a limited window of opportunity to become widely popular before bitcoin's potential mass adoption occurs. + +## Links + +* [Roger Ver on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver) +* [@rogerkver on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rogerkver) +* [rogerver.com](https://rogerver.com/) +* 15-Nov-2016 Medium.com - [Roger Ver: From Bitcoin Jesus to Bitcoin Antichrist](https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/roger-ver-from-bitcoin-jesus-to-bitcoin-antichrist-69fc7a17c622) by WhalePanda diff --git a/_people/ross-ulbricht.md b/_people/ross-ulbricht.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..592f969 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/ross-ulbricht.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) +description: "Founder of the Silk Road dark net market, \"The Princess Bride\" fan, Currently serving life in prison" +permalink: /people/ross-ulbricht +people-groups: [] +--- + +# The Trial of Ross Ulbricht + +From wikipedia: + +> Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is a former darknet market operator, best known for being convicted of creating and running the Silk Road website until his arrest. He was known under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". + +> Ulbricht was convicted of money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics in February 2015. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the conviction and sentence in 2017. + +## Links + +* [The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road's entry in this repository](/events/the_silk_road.md) +* [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) +* [FreeRoss.org](https://freeross.org/) +* 2013 - [Ulbricht's Personal Log](https://www.scribd.com/doc/253551316/Ulbricht-Log?irgwc=1&content=10079&campaign=Skimbit%2C%20Ltd.&ad_group=100099X1555751X9bb4eedb81181aefb804c38fcbc35078&keyword=ft750noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate) +* 29-Apr-2013 Forbes Magazine - [Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts, Founder Of Underground Drug Site Silk Road And Radical Libertarian](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/#2b73bc381b0c) by Andy Greenberg +* 30-Mar-2015 Wired Magazine - [DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road](https://www.wired.com/2015/03/dea-agent-charged-acting-paid-mole-silk-road/) by Andy Greenberg +* April 2015 Wired Magazine - [The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 - The Rise of Silk Road](https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/) by Joshuah Bearman +* May 2015 Wired Magazine - [The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2 - The Fall](https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/) by Joshuah Bearman +* 08-Aug-2015 Free Ross on Youtube - [Cody Wilson: "Ross Ulbricht is paying for being ethical" #FreeRoss"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKswztcEng) with [Cody Wilson](/people/cody_wilson.md) +* 12-Jan-2016 Wired Magazine - [In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht's Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds](https://www.wired.com/2016/01/ross-ulbrichts-defense-focuses-on-corrupt-feds-in-silk-road-appeal/) by Andy Greenberg +* 29-Nov-2016 Wired Magazine - [Ross Ulbricht's Lawyers Say They've Found Another Corrupt Agent in Silk Road Case](https://www.wired.com/2016/11/ross-ulbrichts-lawyers-point-another-corrupt-agent-silk-road-case/) by Andy Greenberg +* 09-May-2017 The Crypto Show on Youtube - [Lyn Ulbricht & Cody Wilson on American Kingpin a hit piece littered with lies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFGizWeQ5s) with [Cody Wilson](/people/cody_wilson.md) +* 31-May-2017 Wired Magazine - [Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-loses-life-sentence-appeal/) by Andy Greenberg diff --git a/_people/satoshi-nakamoto.md b/_people/satoshi-nakamoto.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a9cc99 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/satoshi-nakamoto.md @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Satoshi Nakamoto +description: "Pseudonymous Founder of Bitcoin, May be a person or group, Many people put forward as possible candidates, Very probably the alias of a 90s Cypherpunk" +permalink: /people/satoshi-nakamoto +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Satoshi Nakamoto + +From wikipedia: + +> Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person(s) who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, they also devised the first blockchain database. In the process they were the first to solve the double spending problem for digital currency. They were active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010. + +> Nakamoto has claimed to be a man living in Japan, born on 5 April 1975. However, speculation about the true identity of Nakamoto has mostly focused on a number of cryptography and computer science experts of non-Japanese descent, living in the United States and Europe. + +> As of 24 May 2017, Nakamoto is believed to own up to roughly one million bitcoins, with a value estimated at approximately $4.2 billion USD as of August 2017. + +## Quote from P2P Foundation Announcement + +> I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper: + +> Download Bitcoin v0.1 at http://www.bitcoin.org + +> The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible. + +> A generation ago, multi-user time-sharing computer systems had a similar problem. Before strong encryption, users had to rely on password protection to secure their files, placing trust in the system administrator to keep their information private. Privacy could always be overridden by the admin based on his judgment call weighing the principle of privacy against other concerns, or at the behest of his superiors. Then strong encryption became available to the masses, and trust was no longer required. Data could be secured in a way that was physically impossible for others to access, no matter for what reason, no matter how good the excuse, no matter what. + +> It's time we had the same thing for money. With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless. + +> One of the fundamental building blocks for such a system is digital signatures. A digital coin contains the public key of its owner. To transfer it, the owner signs the coin together with the public key of the next owner. Anyone can check the signatures to verify the chain of ownership. It works well to secure ownership, but leaves one big problem unsolved: double-spending. Any owner could try to re-spend an already spent coin by signing it again to another owner. The usual solution is for a trusted company with a central database to check for double-spending, but that just gets back to the trust model. In its central position, the company can override the users, and the fees needed to support the company make micropayments impractical. + +> Bitcoin's solution is to use a peer-to-peer network to check for double-spending. In a nutshell, the network works like a distributed timestamp server, stamping the first transaction to spend a coin. It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle. For details on how it works, see the design paper at http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf + +> The result is a distributed system with no single point of failure. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of the P2P network to check for double-spending. + +>Satoshi Nakamoto +>http://www.bitcoin.org + +## PGP Public Key + +This is a public key which is known to have belonged to Satoshi (satoshin@gmx.com): + +``` +-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) + +mQGiBEkJ+qcRBADKDTcZlYDRtP1Q7/ShuzBJzUh9hoVVowogf2W07U6G9BqKW24r +piOxYmErjMFfvNtozNk+33cd/sq3gi05O1IMmZzg2rbF4ne5t3iplXnNuzNh+j+6 +VxxA16GPhBRprvnng8r9GYALLUpo9Xk17KE429YYKFgVvtTPtEGUlpO1EwCg7FmW +dBbRp4mn5GfxQNT1hzp9WgkD/3pZ0cB5m4enzfylOHXmRfJKBMF02ZDnsY1GqeHv +/LjkhCusTp2qz4thLycYOFKGmAddpVnMsE/TYZLgpsxjrJsrEPNSdoXk3IgEStow +mXjTfr9xNOrB20Qk0ZOO1mipOWMgse4PmIu02X24OapWtyhdHsX3oBLcwDdke8aE +gAh8A/sHlK7fL1Bi8rFzx6hb+2yIlD/fazMBVZUe0r2uo7ldqEz5+GeEiBFignd5 +HHhqjJw8rUJkfeZBoTKYlDKo7XDrTRxfyzNuZZPxBLTj+keY8WgYhQ5MWsSC2MX7 +FZHaJddYa0pzUmFZmQh0ydulVUQnLKzRSunsjGOnmxiWBZwb6bQjU2F0b3NoaSBO +YWthbW90byA8c2F0b3NoaW5AZ214LmNvbT6IYAQTEQIAIAUCSQn6pwIbAwYLCQgH +AwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEBjAnoZeyUihXGMAnjiWJ0fvmSgSM3o6Tu3q +RME9GN7QAKCGrFw9SUD0e9/YDcqhX1aPMrYue7kCDQRJCfqnEAgA9OTCjLa6Sj7t +dZcQxNufsDSCSB+yznIGzFGXXpJk7GgKmX3H9Zl4E6zJTQGXL2GAV4klkSfNtvgs +SGJKqCnebuZVwutyq1vXRNVFPQFvLVVo2jJCBHWjb03fmXmavIUtRCHoc8xgVJMQ +LrwvS943GgsqSbdoKZWdTnfnEq+UaGo+Qfv66NpT3Yl0CXUiNBITZOJcJdjHDTBO +XRqomX2WSguv+btYdhQGGQiaEx73XMftXNCxbOpqwsODQns7xTcl2ENru9BNIQME +I7L9FYBQUiKHm1k6RrBy1as8XElS2jEos7GAmlfF1wShFUX+NF1VOPdbN3ZdFoWq +sUjKk+QbrwADBQgA9DiD4+uuRhwk2B1TmtrXnwwhcdkE7ZbLHjxBfCsLPAZiPh8c +ICfV3S418i4H1YCz2ItcnC8KAPoS6mipyS28AU1B7zJYPODBn8E7aPSPzHJfudMK +MqiCHljVJrE23xsKTC0sIhhSKcr2G+6ARoG5lwuoqJqEyDrblVQQFpVxBNPHSTqu +O5PoLXQc7PKgC5SyQuZbEALEkItl2SL2yBRRGOlVJLnvZ6eaovkAlgsbGdlieOr0 +UwWuJCwzZuBDruMYAfyQBvYfXZun3Zm84rW7Jclp18mXITwGCVHg/P5n7QMbBfZQ +A25ymkuj636Nqh+c4zRnSINfyrDcID7AcqEb6IhJBBgRAgAJBQJJCfqnAhsMAAoJ +EBjAnoZeyUihPrcAniVWl5M44RuGctJe+IMNX4eVkC08AJ9v7cXsp5uDdQNo8q3R +8RHwN4Gk8w== +=3FTe +-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- +``` + + +## Links + +* [Satoshi Nakamoto on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto) +* [Satoshi's PGP Key](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc) +* 31-Oct-2008 Cryptography Mailing List - [The Bitcoin Whitepaper](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) by [Satoshi Nakamoto](/people/satoshi_nakamoto.md) - _[link to original announcement](http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html)_ +* 11-Feb-2009 P2P Foundation - [Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency - Posted by Satoshi Nakamoto](http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source) +* [Bitcoin Source: Pre-Release, v0.1.0 and v0.1.3](http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/) +* [Cryptography Mailing List Emails](http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/) +* [Forum Posts](http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/) +* [Satoshi Quotes](http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/quotes/) +* [Emails between Satoshi and Hal Finney](http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf) +* [Mike Hearn's Satoshi Emails](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2080206.0) + * [Part 1](https://pastebin.com/Na5FwkQ4) + * [Part 2](https://pastebin.com/cKZPC1rF) + * [Part 3](https://pastebin.com/wA9Jn100) + * [Part 4](https://pastebin.com/JF3USKFT) + * [Part 5](https://pastebin.com/syrmi3ET) diff --git a/_people/theymos.md b/_people/theymos.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da9cdfa --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/theymos.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Michael Marquart (Theymos) +description: "Owner of the [bitcointalk](https://bitcointalk.org/) web forum, Controversial moderator of the [/r/bitcoin](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/) subreddit due to accusations of heavy-handed moderation and censorship of the online communities he controls" +permalink: /people/theymos +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Michael Marquart (Theymos) + +From Theymos's user page on the Bitcoin Wiki: + +> I am head administrator of the Bitcoin Forum and /r/Bitcoin. I wrote Bitcoin Block Explorer, but I don't run it anymore. I currently own the bitcoin.it domain name, but you should not contact me about wiki administration. + +> Contact me via email or forum PM. I am not reliably available elsewhere (especially not on IRC). + +Moderator of /r/bitcoin and owner/webmaster of the BitcoinTalk forums. + +Controversial to the Big-block political camp due to accusations of censorship. This includes removing all mention of the Bitcoin XT/Classic/Unlimited clients with the stance that "they are altcoins" and as such not relevant to /r/bitcoin. + +From a comment by priestc on Bitco.in: + +> Theymos wrote the first block explorer. This is somewhat significant since those things have become a pretty integral part of the bitcoin ecosystem. Unfortunately he'll be remembered in crypto-folklore as that guy who censored all the forums. + +Another controversy relates to Bitcoin donations (over 6000BTC - which is currently 25,950,000 USD as of 28-Aug-2017) that were collected in order upgrade the BitcoinTalk forums. These improvements never materialised. + +## Links + +* [theymos on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/theymos/) +* [@theymos on Twitter (not very active)](https://twitter.com/theymos) +* [User:Theymos on the Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Theymos) +* [theymos.com - Personal Website](http://theymos.com/) +* 17-Jun-2013 BitcoinTalk - [Where's the new forum Theymos?](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236325.0) +* 01-Oct-2015 Bitco.in Forums - [Who is Theymos and what did he do?](https://bitco.in/forum/threads/who-is-theymos-and-what-did-he-do.87/) +* 11-May-2016 news.bitcoin.com - [Theymos: “Bitcoins Belonging to Satoshi Should Be Destroyed”](https://news.bitcoin.com/theymos-bitcoins-satoshi-destroyed/) by Jean-Pierre Buntinx +* 14-Nov-2016 Medium.com - [A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship in /r/Bitcoin](censorship-in-r-bitcoin) by John Blocke +* 21-Dec-2016 Quora.com - [Who is the reddit user theymos?](https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-reddit-user-theymos) answered by Meni Rosenfeld diff --git a/_people/timothy-c-may.md b/_people/timothy-c-may.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3c746a --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/timothy-c-may.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Timothy C. May +description: "Founding member of Cypherpunk Mailing List, writer of \"The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto\" and the \"Cyphernomicon\" (mailing list FAQ)" +permalink: /people/timothy-c-may +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Timothy C. May + +As an Intel engineer, he solved the "alpha particle problem" which affected the reliability of integrated circuits at microchip scales. + +He's discussed here as a founding member of the Cypherpunk Mailing list. As the author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and the Cyphernomicon (the mailing list FAQ), he is one of the key figures who really distilled the core philosophy of the list. + +From wikipedia: + +> Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May, is an American technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. He retired in 2003. + +> May was a founding member of, and has been one of the most voluminous contributors to, Cypherpunks electronic mailing list. He wrote extensively on cryptography and privacy from the 1990s through 2003. + +> May wrote a substantial cypherpunk-themed FAQ, "The Cyphernomicon" (incorporating his earlier piece "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto"), and his essay "True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy" was included in a reprint of Vernor Vinge's novel True Names. In 2001 his work was published in the book Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias. + +## Quotes + +### From the Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto + +> A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. + +> Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences! + +### His email signature + +``` +Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, +tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero +408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, +W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. +``` + +## Links + +* [Timothy C. May on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_C._May) +* 01-Sep-1992 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [Libertaria in Cyberspace](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/libertaria.html) by Timothy C. May +* 22-Nov-1992 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html) by Timothy C. May +* 11-Sep-1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [The Cyphernomicon (Mailing List FAQ)](https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.html) by Timothy C. May +* Dec 1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/) by Timothy C. May +* 14-Apr-1995 [Out of Control Ch 12 - E-Money](http://kk.org/mt-files/outofcontrol/ch12-a.html) by Kevin Kelly +* 1996 [True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy](https://books.google.pl/books?id=3rHgBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30&lpg=PT30&dq=True+Nyms+and+Crypto+Anarchy&source=bl&ots=PZLcyD-544&sig=Z-X0-dHxvOMPk1PSc_uCix9Nh3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4scWMuenVAhWHEVAKHfU6AvIQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=True%20Nyms%20and%20Crypto%20Anarchy&f=false) by Timothy C. May +* 2007-2014 [Tim May's Posts on Lambda-the-Ultimate](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/user/3908/track) diff --git a/_people/vinay-gupta.md b/_people/vinay-gupta.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dd53e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/vinay-gupta.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Vinay Gupta +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Inventor of the Hexayurt, Resilience Guru, Involved with Ethereum" +permalink: /people/vinay-gupta +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Vinay Gupta + +From myhopeforthe.world: + +> I had to put my humanitarian work on the back burner a few years ago. I couldn't make a living, not even enough to support myself in poverty. It was becoming a problem, and I was not being effective. I looked at Elon Musk, and realized there was a better way. + +> I had always had profound talent for technology, and so I went back to my original trade full time, helped launch Ethereum (a >$15bn blockchain project), and now run hexayurt.capital, a VC in London. I hope one day I will get back to doing humanitarian design full time. But this time with a staff to help me realize my hope for the world. + +— Vinay Gupta, London, May 2017 + +Medium bio: + +> Beyond good taste and evil. Global resilience guru. What do you do after it all goes wrong? And what about the poor, for whom it's never yet been right? + +Twitter bio: + +> Humanitarian turned technocrat. Runs a new deep tech VC. Launched @EthereumProject a $15+bn blockchain. @Hexayurt shelter designer. Read http://myhopeforthe.world + +# Links + +* [@leashless on Twitter](https://twitter.com/leashless) +* [Vinay Gupta on Medium](https://medium.com/@leashless) +* [myhopeforthe.world](http://myhopeforthe.world/) by Vinay Gupta +* [hexayurt.capital](http://hexayurt.capital/) +* 05-Nov-2014 Bitcoin Magazine - [‘Bitcoin is Teaching Realism to Libertarians’: An Interview With Old-School Cypherpunk Vinay Gupta](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertarians-an-interview-with-old-school-cypherpunk-vinay-gupta-1415220752/) by Aaron van Wirdum +* 18-Jan-2016 Epicenter Bitcoin on Youtube - [EB114 – Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To Programmer Capitalism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuGoRdm5wo) diff --git a/_people/vitalik-buterin.md b/_people/vitalik-buterin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbf970e --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/vitalik-buterin.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Vitalik Buterin +description: "Creator of Ethereum" +permalink: /people/vitalik-buterin +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Vitalik Buterin + +From wikipedia: + +> Vitalik Buterin (Russian: Виталий Бутерин) is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. + +> Buterin was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia to Dmitry Buterin, a computer scientist and Maia Buterin, a business analyst. He lived in the area until the age of six when his parents immigrated to Canada in search of better employment opportunities. While in grade three of elementary school in Canada, Buterin was placed into a class for gifted children and started to understand that he was drawn to math, programming, and economics. He also had the ability to add three digit numbers in his head at twice the speed of his peers. + +> Buterin learned about Bitcoin from his father at 17. In 2012, he obtained a Bronze Medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. In 2013 he visited developers in other countries who shared his enthusiasm for code. He returned to Toronto later that year and published a white paper proposing Ethereum. He attended the University of Waterloo but dropped out in 2014, when he received the Thiel Fellowship in the amount of $100,000, and went to work on Ethereum full-time. + +## Links + +*There sheer weight of sources relating to Vitalik/Ethereum is overwhelming, will need help from the ETH community. Would be nice to find the original 2013 whitepaper too.* + +* [Vitalik Buterin on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin) +* [@VitalikButerin on Twitter](https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin) +* [vitalik.ca Blog](http://vitalik.ca/) +* [Ethereum on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum) +* [Ethereum Whitepaper](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper) +* [Ethereum Organisation on Wikipedia](https://github.com/ethereum) +* 09-Aug-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [What Libbitcoin and SX are And Why They Matter](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/what-libbitcoin-and-sx-are-and-why-they-matter-1376064919/) with [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 31-Aug-2013 BoxxBrassin on Youtube - [Vitalik Buterin Interview - Bitcoin And The World At Large](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZs6RpLuak) +* 01-Nov-2013 Bitcoin Magazine - [Shedding Light on the Dark Wallet](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/shedding-light-on-the-dark-wallet-1383357523/) with [Amir Taaki](/people/amir_taaki.md) +* 04-Mar-2017 Vitalik Buterin on Medium.com - [Safety Under Dynamic Validator Sets](https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/safety-under-dynamic-validator-sets-ef0c3bbdf9f6) +* 14-Mar-2017 Vitalik Buterin's Blog - [Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion](http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/03/14/forks_and_markets.html) diff --git a/_people/weev.md b/_people/weev.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7325ce --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/weev.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Andrew Auernheimer (weev) +description: "Not really a cypherpunk himself but an interesting player in the world the cypherpunks helped build: White supremacist hacker, father of modern trolling culture, cryptocurrency trader, printer mischief-maker" +permalink: /people/weev +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Andrew Auernheimer (weev) + +From wikipedia: + +> Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer (/ˈɔːrənhaɪmər/ AW-rən-hy-mər; born September 1, 1985), best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American black hat hacker, Internet troll and neo-Nazi. He has identified himself using a variety of aliases to the media, although most sources correctly provide his first name as Andrew. Although Auernheimer has stated he is of Jewish descent, he is a member of an antisemitic network of computer hackers that wages cyber-attacks against universities. + +## Links + +* [Weev on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev) +* [weev on gab.ai](https://gab.ai/weev) +* [weev on LiveJournal.com](http://weev.livejournal.com/) +* 01-Oct-2014 DailyStormer.com (Web Archive) - [What I Learned from My Time in Prison](https://web.archive.org/web/20170723115752/http://www.dailystormer.com/what-i-learned-from-my-time-in-prison/) by Andrew Auernheimer +* 24-Mar-2016 Storify.com (Web Archive) - [A brief experiment in printing -- DailyStormer.com anglosphere propaganda push](https://web.archive.org/web/20170817175806/https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in) by Andrew Auernheimer diff --git a/_people/wei-dai.md b/_people/wei-dai.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4eb456b --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/wei-dai.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Wei Dai +description: "90s Cypherpunk, Cryptographer, Creator of Bitcoin-precursor B-Money" +permalink: /people/wei-dai +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Wei Dai + +Wei Dai is the inventor of b-money, a very important bitcoin-predecessor. This is his main contribution to the movement; the thing he is most known for. + +From the Bitcoin Wiki: + +> Wei Dai (戴维 in Pinyin). is a computer engineer and cypherpunk best known as creator of b-money and the developer of the Crypto++ library. Dai is listed as inventor on U.S. patents 5724279 and 6081598 which were assigned to Microsoft. + +> Mr. Dai graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in computer science and is described as an "intensely private computer engineer". His profile as a member of the advisory board for the (now defunct) VoteHere.net indicated: + +> "Mr. Dai worked in the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. While at Microsoft, he was involved in the study, design and implementation of cryptosystems for specialized applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Dai was a programmer with TerraSciences of Acton, Massachusetts. Mr. Dai holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington in computer science, with a minor in mathematics." + +## Quotes + +### About Crypto-Anarchy + +> I am fascinated by Tim May’s crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word “anarchy”, in a crypto-anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary. It’s a community where the threat of violence is impotent because violence is impossible, and violence is impossible because its participants cannot be linked to their true names or physical locations. + +### Regarding Speculation That He is Satoshi Nakamoto + +> Hi Clippy, what made you think that I might be able to? If you read the Wikipedia article, you should know that I didn't create Bitcoin but only described a similar idea more than a decade ago. And my understanding is that the creator of Bitcoin, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, didn't even read my article before reinventing the idea himself. He learned about it afterward and credited me in his paper. So my connection with the project is quite limited. + +## Links + +* 1996-2003 Extropians Mailing List - [Wei Dai's List Archive](http://extropians.weidai.com/) +* 01-Nov-1998 Whitepaper - [b-money](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/b-money/) by Wei Dai +* Unknown Date - [An attack against SSH2 protocol](http://www.weidai.com/ssh2-attack.txt) by Wei Dai +* 1998 Whitepaper - [PipeNet 1.1](http://www.weidai.com/pipenet.txt) by Wei Dai +* 1999/2000 - [Two attacks against a PipeNet-like protocol once used by the Freedom service](http://www.weidai.com/freedom-attacks.txt) by Wei Dai +* Oct 2007 CFRP Working Group - [(Draft Paper) - VMAC: Message Authentication Code using Universal Hashing](http://www.fastcrypto.org/vmac/draft-krovetz-vmac-01.txt) by Wei Dai +* 07-Apr-2009-Present LessWrong.com - [Wei Dai's Posts on LessWrong.com](http://lesswrong.com/user/Wei_Dai/submitted/) +* 25-Feb-2011 LessWrong.com Post - [Wei_Dai comments on Making money with Bitcoin?](http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/3lq1) +* 11-Oct-2016 (Latest Release) - [Crypto++ - Cryptography Libarary for C++](https://www.cryptopp.com/) diff --git a/_people/whitfield-diffie.md b/_people/whitfield-diffie.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbbfd9b --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/whitfield-diffie.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Whitfield Diffie +description: "Cryptographer, Co-creater of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with [Martin Hellman](people/martin_hellman.md), Privacy advocate" +permalink: /people/whitfield-diffie +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Whitfield Diffie + +Not himself a Cypherpunk, but he is known as a privacy advocate and along with Martin Hellman he solved the key distribution problem; which allowed two previously unknown-to-each-other participants to communicate securely without a secure channel to exchange keys. + +From wikipedia: + +> Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. Diffie and Martin Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms. + +> After a long career at Sun Microsystems, where he became a Sun Fellow, Diffie served for two and a half years as Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (2010–2012). He has also served as a visiting scholar (2009–2010) and affiliate (2010–2012) at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where he is currently a consulting scholar. + +> Together with Martin Hellman, Diffie won the 2015 Turing Award, widely considered the most prestigious award in the field of computer science. The citation for the award was: "For fundamental contributions to modern cryptography. Diffie and Hellman's groundbreaking 1976 paper, 'New Directions in Cryptography', introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most regularly-used security protocols on the internet today." + +## Links + +* [Whitfield Diffie on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie) +* [@WhitfieldDiffie on Twitter (Account is inactive, I can't confirm that it's him)](https://twitter.com/whitfielddiffie) +* [Stanford University Profile Page for Whitfield Diffie](http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/whitfield_diffie) +* [Computer History Museum - Fellow Awards Profile Page for Whitfield Diffie](http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/whitfield-diffie/) +* Nov 1976 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, VOL. IT-22, NO. 6 - [New Directions in Cryptography (Describes Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange)](https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf) by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman +* 12-Jun-1994 The New York Times - [Battle of the Clipper Chip](http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-clipper-chip.html?pagewanted=all) by Stephen Levy +* 01-Nov-1994 Wired Magazine - [Prophet of Privacy](https://www.wired.com/1994/11/diffie/) +* 2001 [Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age - Chapter 1](http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/levy-crypto.html) by Stephen Levy +* 28-Dec-2007 Computer History Museum on Youtube - [Information Security—Before & After Public-Key Cryptography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJuuUxCaaY) +* 10-Feb-2009 Michael Teixeira on Youtube - [Whitfield Diffie Lecture (probably at Stanford)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDRD4GdapA) +* 01-Nov-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [Whitfield Diffie on Protecting the Individual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq01BN-TxdE) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 1/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYV0z8P_TsI) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 2/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOHgzC69pQ) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 3/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nOsqgIzew) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 4/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1RqiHCAcyA) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 5/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKGkadqle4) +* 09-Mar-2010 RSA Conference on Youtube - [RSA Conference 2010 USA: The Cryptographers Panel - Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Brian Snow 6/6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ezyEIAZyoc) +* 04-May-2011 Jim Law on Youtube - [Whit Diffie Inventor's Hall of Fame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psT1Pb9DbQE) +* 31-Oct-2011 Christiaan008 on Youtube - [DEFCON 19: Whitfield Diffie and Moxie Marlinspike](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7uW6vDk00) +* 27-Dec-2011 Don Dingee on Youtube - [Cryptography for the Internet of Things: Dr. Whitfield Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyO2Ti-Lsbg) +* 16-Apr-2012 Bruce Baumgart on Youtube - [JMC2012 Whit Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6bjRd0mpK0) +* 24-May-2012 SecurityTubeCons on Youtube - [Blackhat 2012 EUROPE - KEYNOTE with Whitfield Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAHGnlqACU) +* 15-Aug-2013 Security Weekly on Youtube - [THROWBACK - Interview With Whit Diffie (EP341)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfpIUAePWT0) +* 24-Feb-2014 RSA Conference on Youtube - [The Cryptographers' Panel 2014 - Paul Kocher, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Whitfield Diffie, Brian LaMacchia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMc9fHvc78Y) +* 03-Jun-2014 TCP Forty on Youtube - [Whinfield Diffie - interview at 40th anniversary of TCP/IP, May 10th, 2014 in Palo Alto, CA.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33J2ygUMrQc) +* 21-Apr-2014 RSA Conference - [Crypto for Constrained Devices -- A Talk with Whitfield Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AO0MC3DyM) +* 10-Jan-2015 Mike Moody on Youtube - [VPE CTO COP Presentation by Whit Diffie 1-8-15 part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWgcO7bRh78) +* 22-Apr-2015 RSA Conference on Youtube - [The Cryptographers' Panel 2015 - Paul Kocher , Adi Shamir, Ed Giorgio, Ronald Rivest, Whitfield Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtZrNPP26w) +* 09-Sep-2015 r00tz on Youtube - [Whit Diffie: The Crypto Wars are Over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6pn-VkpKg) +* 01-Mar-2016 Stanford News - [Stanford cryptography pioneers Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman win ACM 2015 A.M. Turing Award](http://news.stanford.edu/2016/03/01/turing-hellman-diffie-030116/) +* 09-Mar-2016 CRYPTOMAThIC on Youtube - [Barclays Crypto Service Gateway Event - Whitfield Diffie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCN67MvO-Sg) +* 04-Apr-2016 Sentient Technologies on Youtube - [Whitfield Diffie Remembers Marvin Minsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxrMZERqd_Y) +* 05-May-2016 standfordmedia on Youtube - [Stanford Seminar - Cryptology and Security: the view from 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXWsmHoFs6Y) +* 02-May-2016 RSA Conference on Youtube - [The Cryptographers' Panel 2016 - Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Whitfield Diffie, Moxie Marlinspike, Martin Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76qLOrna1w) +* 20-Jun-2016 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on Youtube - [ACM A.M. Turing Award - Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3JcMetfl00) diff --git a/_people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan.md b/_people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1bfaba --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Wladimir J. van der Laan +description: "Bitcoin Core Developer, Holds the number 1 spot on the [bitcoin/bitcoin contributors list](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors)" +permalink: /people/wladimir-j-van-der-laan +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Wladimir J. van der Laan + +WeUseCoins bio: + +> Wladimir van der Laan is a Bitcoin Core Developer and the Lead Maintainer of the Bitcoin repository on GitHub. + +> From mid-2010 until April-2014, Gavin Andresen maintained control of the Bitcoin Core GitHub repository and was considered Bitcoin’s lead developer. On April 8, 2014, Andresen stepped down and van der Laan agreed to take over as Lead Maintainer of the Bitcoin repo. His salary is paid by MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, where he works on Bitcoin development with Andresen and Cory Fields. + +> van der Laan has taken more of a backseat approach in Bitcoin’s scaling debate. He stated that there is “a problem with proposals that bake in expected exponential bandwidth growth” and that a “a hardfork is extremely hard to coordinate”. + +> Because Bitcoin is a decentralized system, van der Laan believes that any code changes or BIP proposals must reach consensus among other Core developers before being implemented. Former Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn is one of the critics who have claimed that van der Laan’s approach is too conservative. + +## Links + +* [@orionwl on Twitter](https://twitter.com/orionwl) +* [Wladimir J. van der Laan on GitHub](https://github.com/laanwj) +* [Wladimir J. van der Laan's Profile on WeUseCoins.com](https://www.weusecoins.com/wladimir-van-der-laan/) +* 12-Apr-2014 - [Wladimir van der Laan's Top Four Priorities for Bitcoin](https://www.coindesk.com/wladimir-van-der-laans-top-four-priorities-bitcoin/) by Kadhim Shubber +* 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 +* 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/_people/zhou-tong.md b/_people/zhou-tong.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93c5114 --- /dev/null +++ b/_people/zhou-tong.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +layout: static-informational +title: Zhou Tong +description: "Founder of [Bitcoinica](events/bitcoinica.md), Major player in the early Bitcoin community" +permalink: /people/zhou-tong +people-groups: [] +--- + +# Zhou Tong + +His name is the origin of the cryptocurrency community slang "Zhou Tonged": + +> Bitcoin Slang, Your positions are automatically liquidated due to insufficient trading balance after a margin call. This occurs when trading using "leverage buying" at high levels 5:1 or 10:1. The large swings in the Bitcoin exchange rates can force automated margin selling, when the Broker sells out the customer without notice. I Just Got "ZHOU TONGED"!.... lost it all on a margin call. + +Zhou Tong presided over the Bitcoinica debacle and is a suspected scammer/thief. I'll be including a lot more about him when I do the research on the Bitcoinica collapse/theft. + +## Links + +* [@zhoutong on Twitter](https://twitter.com/zhoutong) +* [zhoutong's posts on BitcoinTalk](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=38455;sa=showPosts) +* [Zhou Tonged on Urban Dictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zhou%20Tonged) +* ZhouTonged on Youtube - [Zhou Tonged's Videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/ZhouTonged/videos) - _parody songs about Bitcoin events, not by Zhou Tong but referencing his name_ +* 13-May-2012 BitcoinTalk - [I'm leaving Bitcoin](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81581.0) by Zhou Tong +* 30-May-2012 BitcoinMagazine - [10 Questions with Zhou Tong](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/10-questions-with-zhou-tong-1338356262/) by coinabul +* 28-Feb-2015 /r/bitcoin - [PSA: Zhou Tong created CoinJar, the service behind the Bitcoin Debit card in Austrailia on the front page of /r/Bitcoin. He is the creator of Bitcoinica and a suspected thief.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2xfag9/psa_zhou_tong_created_coinjar_the_service_behind/) +* 09-Sep-2015 /r/bitcoin - [looks like the stolen Bitcoinica funds returned by Zhou Tong were being used by him as his personal Bitcoin prior to the return... with a payment to Theymos](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3k5zen/looks_like_the_stolen_bitcoinica_funds_returned/) +* 10-Sep-2015 CryptoCoinsNews.com - [Does Bitcoinica Founder Zhou Tong Have Some Explaining To Do?](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoinica-founder-zhou-tong-explaining/) by John Weru Maina +* 09-Nov-2015 CryptoCoinsNews.com - [Suspected Scammer Zhou Tong is CoinJar Co-Founder](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/suspected-scammer-zhou-tong-coinjar-co-founder/) by P. H. Madore diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/cryptocurrency-notables.md b/_people_and_organisations/cryptocurrency-notables.md index 204c66f..997c51e 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/cryptocurrency-notables.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/cryptocurrency-notables.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Cryptocurrency Notables -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/cryptocurrency-notables order: 3 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications.md b/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications.md index fa25301..a22a051 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Cypherpunk/Cryptocurrency Publications -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-and-cryptocurrency-publications order: 7 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-successor-online-communities.md b/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-successor-online-communities.md index 36c988f..94eb333 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-successor-online-communities.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-successor-online-communities.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Cypherpunk Successor Online Communities -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/cypherpunk-successor-online-communities order: 6 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/early-cypherpunks.md b/_people_and_organisations/early-cypherpunks.md index 104ec72..e32ccf6 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/early-cypherpunks.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/early-cypherpunks.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Early Cypherpunks -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/early-cypherpunks order: 2 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists.md b/_people_and_organisations/later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists.md index 5f5f6d1..5edda74 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Later Cypherpunks and Crypto-Anarchists -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/later-cypherpunks-and-crypto-anarchists order: 4 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md b/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md index a206615..1a407bb 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/notable-organsations.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Notable Organsations -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/notable-organsations order: 5 --- diff --git a/_people_and_organisations/pioneers-of-modern-cryptography.md b/_people_and_organisations/pioneers-of-modern-cryptography.md index 1c35aac..b495185 100644 --- a/_people_and_organisations/pioneers-of-modern-cryptography.md +++ b/_people_and_organisations/pioneers-of-modern-cryptography.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: static-informational title: Pioneers of Modern Cryptography -no_content: true +permalink: /people_and_organisations/pioneers-of-modern-cryptography order: 1 ---