The Bottlenecks: Anonymous Communication And Anonymous Money

The bottlenecks are anonymous communication and anonymous money, because unobservable economic activity is needed to avoid the prying eyes of those in the business of violence. What can't be seen, can't be stolen.

At the hart of every trade there's a universal abstraction of value, fulfilling one side of the agreement and that is money.

There will be numerous opportunities for young ambitious upcoming Cypherpunks to find innovative solutions of fulfilling the other end of the bargain: how certain goods and services can be delivered. Anonymous delivery of such systems are all opportunities to be solved.

The context of the trade is so that some communication is required between the two parties for the trade to happen.

In fact the work on anonymous money and anonymous communications are so intertwingled with each other that they are feeding on each others' successes.

When self defense software for anonymous communications and anonymous money gets so practical that any anonymous trade application developer can incorporate them into their software, the cypherpunk economy will bloom. This will shift power dynamics: The powers of individuals will grow in expense of the powers of those of in groups. Therefore the bottlenecks are anonymous communication and anonymous money.