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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Eric Hughes, March 9, 1993
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.
Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases, personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only needs to know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.
Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.
Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.
We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.
We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with
whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.
We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.
Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.
Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.
For privacy to be widespread, it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with
our goals.
The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.
Onward.
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• `err != nil`: This condition checks if the error variable `err` is not equal to `nil`, which means an error has occurred.
• `return "", err`: If an error has occurred, the function returns an empty string `""` as well as the error itself. This allows the caller of the function to handle the error appropriately.
In essence, this code is used to propagate errors up the call stack while providing information about what went wrong.
Tomorrow is Satoshi Nakamoto's 49th birthday.
Happy Birthday #SatoshiNakamoto 🥳
The inventor of #Bitcoin, the future world's richest man, and the greatest mind in monetary history.
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How do we know this? Satoshi created a public profile where he identified April 5, 1975 as the date of his birth. https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto
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“You've gotta be absolutely crazy to believe the Federal Reserve right now. They're full of it. And I don't have to, because I own #Bitcoin” - Jack Mallers 🔥
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The adoption of #Bitcoin involves education!
Many buy #Bitcoin to have more USD.
I buy #btc to have less UDS. 😎
A few years ago, I saw the same thing happen in Brazil, several exchanges had their accounts blocked or even closed, which made it impossible for users to buy #Bitcoin by making deposits in Fiat currency.
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Owning a single #Bitcoin will prove to be ownership of the most expensive thing on Earth. It’s going to happen faster than you think. #HODL.
Why #Blockstream destroyed #Bitcoin. Do you agree with this opinion?
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Video credits: @MKjrstad
PROSPERITY ROUTINE:
• Exercise regularly;
• Study continuously;
• Don't look for quick pleasures in anything;
• Eliminate energy-sucking people from your environment;
• Face situations that generate stress and require effort;
• Accumulate as many #satoshis as you can.
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It's true that Bitcoin's legitimacy has received a significant boost with SEC approval and the backing of major institutions like #BlackRock.
This validation has certainly caught the attention of institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds, who can no longer afford to ignore its potential.
The narrative has shifted from whether to invest in #Bitcoin to how much to allocate to it. Even a small percentage allocation acknowledges Bitcoin's potential as a hedge against inflation and economic uncertainty.
With traditional financial giants increasingly accepting Bitcoin, it's becoming more challenging for institutional portfolios to justify a 0% allocation to this asset class.
This growing acceptance underscores Bitcoin's importance in diversifying investment portfolios and managing risk in today's evolving financial landscape.
Register your laugh! 🤣🤣🤣 #bitcoin
Capital seeks the most favorable environment. There's no monetary system more secure and incorruptible than #Bitcoin.
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The discipline of the #Samurai
Sharpening your sword every day and stay ready
The discipline of the #Bitcoiner
Staking #SATs every day and stay ready
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#Bitcoin is the only asset in the world that’s undervalued right now.