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Many of these I collated via [nakamotoinstitute.org](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/literature/).

* 1973 DavidDFriedman.com (Full Book) - [The Machinery of Freedom](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf) by [David D. Friedman](/people/david-d-friedman)
* 1978 Mises.org - [Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined](https://mises.org/document/3970/Denationalisation-of-Money-The-Argument-Refined) by Friedrich A. Hayek
* Nov 1979 NakamotoInstitute.org - [From Crossbows To Cryptography: Techno-Thwarting The State](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/from-crossbows-to-cryptography.pdf) by Chuck Hammill
* 1990s Various BBSs - [Electronic Magazines](http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/) - _not strictly Cypherpunk, but a window into the Anarchic Late-80s/Early-90s internet culture_
* 1991 PhilZimmermann.com - [Why I Wrote PGP](https://www.philZimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html) by [Phil Zimmermann](/people/phil-zimmermann)
* 01-Sep-1992 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [Libertaria in Cyberspace](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/libertaria.html) by [Timothy C. May](/people/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](/people/timothy-c-may)
* 09-Mar-1993 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [A Cypherpunk's Manifesto](https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html) by [Eric Hughes](/people/eric-hughes) - _the phrase "Cypherpunks write code" comes from this document_
* 11-Sep-1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [The Cyphernomicon (Mailing List FAQ)](https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.html) by [Timothy C. May](/people/timothy-c-may)
* Dec 1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List - [Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/virtual-communities/) by [Timothy C. May](/people/timothy-c-may)
* 08-Feb-1996 - [A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace](https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence) by [John Perry Barlow](/people/john-perry-barlow)
* Feb 1997 gnu.org - [The Right to Read](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html) by Richard Stallman
* 04-Apr-1997 - [Assassination Politics](http://cryptome.org/ap.htm) by [Jim Bell](/people/jim-bell)
* 04-May-2000 DavidDFriedman.com - [Contracts in Cyberspace](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/contracts_in_%20cyberspace/contracts_in_cyberspace.htm)
* 02-Aug-2002 NakamotoInstitute.org - [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar/) by Eric S. Raymond - _[link to original](http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/)_
* 2003 NakamotoInstitute.org - [The Art of Unix Programming](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/taoup.pdf) by Eric S. Raymond - _[link to original](http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/)_
* 2005 DavidDFriedman.com - [From Imperial China to Cyberspace: Contracting Without the State](http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/analytical_methods_08/china_to_cyberspace.htm)
* 03-Dec-2006 NakamotoInstitute.org - [State and Terrorist Conspiracies & Conspiracy as Governance ](http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/julian-assange-conspiracies.pdf) by [Julian Assange](/people/julian-assange)
* 2008 Mises.org - [Deflation and Liberty](https://mises.org/document/3726/Deflation-and-Liberty) by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
* mid-2010s paralelnipolis.cz - [Paralelní Polis - statement](https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/o-nas/en/)
* Dec 2015 (Academic Paper) - [The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work](http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf) by Phillip Rogaway