😂 This quote really highlights the contrast in attitudes to being cypherpunk:

"While WikiLeaks has excelled among its cypherpunk platform siblings, this has not resulted in Assange receiving admiration from all other cypherpunks. Young accused Assange of being seduced by fame and wealth (Golianopoulos 2010); he also accused WikiLeaks of being in cahoots with the CIA (Assange 2011). Young ended his short tenure on WikiLeaks’ advisory board after Assange notified him of a plan to raise money; in his email, Young wrote, “Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign against legitimate dissent. Same old shit, working for the enemy” (Greenberg 2012, 132). While Young was willing to be part of WikiLeaks for at least a few months, May has expressed his distaste for the politics of WikiLeaks. When asked why May never used his cypherpunk ethics and technical skills in crypto to build a whistleblowing and publishing platform, May explained, “I’m not concerned about things like that. Let the Africans kill each other. I don’t have those kinds of political interests…the idea of trying to be Julian Assange gives me the creeps” (Greenberg 2012, 91). May’s comment captures a fundamental difference between crypto anarchy and crypto justice. Assange uses crypto to push the entire world toward a state of justice, which entails curtailing western imperialism and undermining authoritarianism wherever it maybe, while May is primarily interested in using crypto as arenas of realizing a kind of elite, individualistic—white and western—autonomy."

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