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# Crypto Anarchy:

Encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black markets, collapse of governments.

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## Recent Blog Posts

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## Getting Started

+ [What is Crypto Anarchy?](/getting-started/what-is-crypto-anarchy)
+ [What is a Cypherpunk?](/getting-started/what-is-a-cypherpunk)
+ [What is the Cypherpunks Mailing List?](/getting-started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list)
+ [What is Bitcoin (And How is it Related)?](/getting-started/what-is-bitcoin)

## Contribute

Maybe in the future, this site will have full wiki functionality.

For now, contributors can submit pull requests to the following repository:

+ [cryptoanarchywiki.github.io](https://github.com/cryptoanarchywiki/cryptoanarchywiki.github.io/)

## Cypherpunks Mailing List

+ Mailing List Archive
+ [The Cyphernomicon (Cypherpunks Mailing List FAQ)](https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.html)

## Sources
+ Full Cryptography Primer Courses
+ Philosophical/Ideological Sources
+ Technical Sources
+ Historical Sources & Media Articles
+ Books

## People & Organisations

+ Pioneers of Modern Cryptography
+ Early Cypherpunks
+ Crypto-currency Notables
+ Later Cypherpunks and Crypto-Anarchists
+ Notable Organsations
+ Miscelaneous

## Events

+ 1970s - The Discovery of Public Key Cryptography
+ 1990s - Crypto Wars, Phil Zimmermann and PGP
+ 2008/2009 - The Creation of Bitcoin and Early Community
+ Jun 2011 - The Great Bitcoin Bubble of 2011
+ Feb 2011-Oct 2013 - The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road
+ Mar 2012 - The Bitcoinica Hack
+ June 2013 - The Snowden Leaks
+ Apr-Dec 2013 - The Second and Third Bitcoin Bubbles
+ Feb 2014 - The Collapse of Mt Gox (The Final Goxxing)
+ Feb 2015 - The Trial of Ross Ulbricht
+ May 2016 - The Craig Wright Affair (and other attempts to identify Satoshi)
+ June 2016 - The DAO Hack
+ Early 2017 - The Altcoin/ICO Bubble and Fourth Bitcoin Bubble
+ Jul/Aug 2017 - Bitcoin Scaling Battles (Big vs Small Blockers)

## Notable Projects

+ Bitcoin
+ BitTorrent
+ Ethereum
+ IPFS
+ JoinMarket
+ OpenBazaar
+ Opendime
+ PGP
+ Tor

## Key Concepts

+ Public/Private Key Cryptography
+ Hash Functions
+ Cryptographic Signatures
+ End-to-End Encryption
+ PGP
+ Anonymous Remailers
+ BitTorrent
+ Onion Routing
+ Blockchains
+ Merkle Trees
+ Bloom Filters
+ Distributed Hash Tables
+ P2P Routing Algorithms
+ Mesh Networks