"They Tried to Ban Math and Failed"
1993. The US government declared encryption a "munition"—tried to ban it like guns or grenades.
Phil Zimmermann released PGP anyway. Illegally. Mailed it on floppy disks, disguised as books. The feds raged.
They lost.
2011. Wikileaks got bank-blocked by Visa, Mastercard, PayPal.
Bitcoin donations kept them alive.
They lost again.
2024. The EU wants KYC for your memes, Canada freezes truckers’ accounts, and the IMF screeches about "unregulated crypto."
They will lose again.
Because you can’t ban math. You can’t stop packets. You can’t kill an idea that’s already in 100 million minds.
The cypherpunks knew:
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."
Use Bitcoin. Run Tor. Encrypt everything.
"The war is over. They just don’t know it yet."
#CypherpunkWon #NoKYCLife