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* 01-Feb-1993 Wired Magazine - [Crypto Rebels](https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/) by Steven Levy
* 01-Jun-1994 Wired Magazine - [Anonymously Yours – How to Launder Your E-mail](https://www.wired.com/1994/06/anonymous-2/) by Steven Levy
* 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/)
* 01-Dec-1994 Wired Magazine - [E-Money (That's What I Want)](https://www.wired.com/1994/12/emoney/)
* 01-Oct-1996 Wired Magazine - [The Future of Money](https://www.wired.com/1996/10/wriston/) by Thomas A. Bass
* 17-Feb-1997 Wired Magazine - [Homeless Cypherpunks Turn to Usenet](https://www.wired.com/1997/02/homeless-cypherpunks-turn-to-usenet/)
* 01-Apr-1999 Wired Magazine - [The Open Secret](https://www.wired.com/1999/04/crypto/) by Steven Levy
* 17-May-1999 Wired Magazine - [The First True Cypherpunk Novel](https://www.wired.com/1999/05/the-first-true-cypherpunk-novel/) by Declan McCullagh
* 14-Apr-2000 Wired Magazine - [Crypto-Convict Won't Recant](https://www.wired.com/2000/04/crypto-convict-wont-recant/)
* 19-Mar-2013 BitcoinTalk.org - [Bitcoin and me](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0) by [Hal Finney](/people/hal-finney)
* 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)
* 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
* 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
* 28-Dec-2014 Oleg Andreev's Blog - [Real crypto-anarchy](http://blog.oleganza.com/post/71410377996/real-crypto-anarchy)
* 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
* 03-Aug-2015 The Intercept - [GCHQ and Me](https://theintercept.com/2015/08/03/life-unmasking-british-eavesdroppers/) by Duncan Campbell
* 25-Sep-2015 The Intercept - [From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities](https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/) by Ryan Gallagher
* Mar 2016 American Scientist - [Cypherpunks Write Code](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code) by Jamie Bartlett
* 10-Mar-2016 Atavist Magazine - [The Mastermind - 7 Part Article Series](https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind) by Evan Ratliff - _article series about [Paul Calder Le Roux](/people/paul-calder-le-roux)_
* 18-Jun-2016 Wired Magazine - [A $50 Million Hack Just Showed That the DAO Was All Too Human](https://www.wired.com/2016/06/50-million-hack-just-showed-dao-human/) by Klint Finley
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 04-June-2017 The Guardian - [Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/04/forget-far-right-populism-crypto-anarchists-are-the-new-masters-internet-politics) by Jamie Bartlett
* 24-Aug-2017 Bitcoin Blockchain - [The First SegWit transaction on Bitcoin](http://srv1.yogh.io/#tx:id:8F907925D2EBE48765103E6845C06F1F2BB77C6ADC1CC002865865EB5CFD5C1C)