After the US government tried to prosecute Phil Zimmerman as an international arms dealer for releasing PGP encryption to the world, cypherpunks published the code in books, tattooed it on their bodies, and printed it on tshirts, putting the US government in the position of having to defend the banning of books, tattoos and tshirts in court.

They dropped the charges.

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I remember. There were intense global manhunts for anyone with the capabilities to do what Phil did. Many of us were tracked and monitored for decades. And even worse..πŸ‘ΊπŸ˜

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They will always afraid one of us was going to do what #Satoshi did..πŸ§‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜Š

"I Shook Up The World!!!"..πŸ˜‚

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Dang autocorrect. They "Were" always afraid "Satoshi would set the World free..πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ§‘πŸ˜Š