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Cypherpunks, Bitcoin & the Myth of Satoshi Nakamoto

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“For those wary of Bitcoin’s pedigree, it may comfort them to know that it emerged directly from a culture of programmers who champion open-source software (also known as free software) like Sir Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web. The ‘shadowy hacker’ label that is sometimes ascribed to Satoshi Nakamoto is fair in some ways because that’s the way he intended it. Satoshi thus embodies all the things that the original Cypherpunks were trying so hard to impress upon us: our fundamental right to privacy. It is Bitcoin’s capacity to protect some aspects of our privacy from GCHQ and the NSA that makes it valuable – to a degree. But it’s more than that.”

http://www.cybersalon.org/cypherpunk/

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Digital Apocalypse: An Interview with Cody Wilson

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“Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed talks about the project and the implications of 3D printing and cryptography on politics and the nation-state.”

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Defense Distributed Plans to Make Bitcoins Completely Anonymous

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“The inventor of the 3D-printed gun, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, is now raising money for a new crypto-anarchist venture that will help people anywhere in the world keep their wealth and finances private.  The project is called Dark Wallet, an anonymous easy-to-use Bitcoin wallet. The wallet will be a discreet browser plugin for Chrome or Firefox that will make the public Bitcoin log less traceable. While names may never be a used in a Bitcoin transaction, certain metadata is traceable through an open source log which could lead to identifying the user. Dark Wallet would eliminate the reliability of the public metadata.”

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/cody-wilson-bitcoin-dark-wallet-defense.html

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What We Know About Ross Ulbricht, Allegedly ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’

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“Ulbricht identified as a supporter of Ron Paul’s in 2008 and even attempted to become a delegate for the then-presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention.  Last December, in a 35-minute interview with his best friend, Rene Pinnell, for NPR partner StoryCorps, Ulbricht describes his first love, his move out West and his dreams for the future. Ulbricht said, ‘I’m gonna do a few things. I’m pretty sure I want to start a family in the next five years. … And make more friends and close people I love. I want to focus on being more connected to people.’ In 20 years, he said, ‘I want to have had a substantial positive impact on the future of humanity by that time.'”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/03/228845525/all-about-dread-pirate-roberts-a-k-a-ross-ulbricht-bio-profile

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Fifty Ways to Leave Leviathan

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“Compared with politics or the slow road of mass education, the work of hacking Leviathan through innovation is a promising road forward. Something’s happening. It’s like the Singularity for civil disobedience. Pandora’s box. Perhaps a series of innovation tidal waves. A whole lot of people are participating in a great unfolding. And if you’re drawing up grand social engineering plans, throw them out. The world is about to get a lot more dynamic.  Here are just 50 ways people are working around State obstacles.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/fifty-ways-to-leave-leviathan

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End Of The Silk Road: FBI Says It’s Busted The Web’s Biggest Black Market

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“After two and a half years running the booming anonymous narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road, thedrug kingpin who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts has allegedly been unmasked.  The Department of Justice has seized the website of the Silk Road’s as well as somewhere between $3.5 to 4 million in bitcoins, the cryptographic currency used to buy drugs on the Silk Road.  In his conversation with me, which took place on July 4th, the Silk Road administrator calling himself the Dread Pirate Roberts espoused Libertarian ideals and claimed that the use of Bitcoin in combination with Tor had stymied law enforcement and ‘won the State’s War on Drugs.'”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/02/end-of-the-silk-road-fbi-busts-the-webs-biggest-anonymous-drug-black-market/

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Peer-to-Peer Economy Thrives as Activists Vacate the System

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“Progressives may call it the ‘sharing economy’ while Libertarians may refer to it as Agorism –  a ‘society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution.’  Together, they’re opting out of the current socioeconomic matrix and creating a new alternative economy where trading occurs peer-to-peer and increasingly without government-issued currency.  It’s a space where mutual trade occurs without burdensome taxes, regulations, or licenses, an underground black market enabled by the Internet and regulated by social feedback mechanisms — and it’s growing exponentially.”

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/peer-to-peer-economy-thrives-as.html

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3D Printing Now Brings You Semiautomatic Pistols (To Scare Control Freaks)

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“It’s not yet ready for prime-time (it has yet to be tested), but 3D printing tinkerers have developed a design for a semiautomatic pistol. In fact, the developer says a full-automatic version would be easier to make with available materials. What a long way we’ve come, in just a few short months, toward the ultimate goal of rendering gun control laws a complete joke. Well…they were already a joke (though a dangerous one). It’s more accurate to say we’ve come a long way toward rendering such laws moot, and easily bypassed by even those with limited technical skills.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/26/3d-printing-now-brings-you-semiautomatic

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Dark Wallet: A Radical Way To Bitcoin

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“In the Bitcoin world, where banks no longer serve as intermediaries between people and their money, bank accounts have been replaced by online ‘wallets’ that people can use to virtually store and send bitcoins. Wilson and Taaki’s project is a simple wallet designed to be easier to use for people who aren’t tech-savvy; they hope that in turn accelerates the currency’s rate of adoption around the world. The wallet will be open-source and free to use. Eventually, Wilson and Taaki hope to create a vast stable of Bitcoin-related tools. The goal, for Wilson, is similar to what he tried to do with the Liberator: use technology to remove government intervention from his life, and from the lives of like-minded people.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/09/dark-wallet-bitcoin.html

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3D-printed gun maker to launch Bitcoin wallet next

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“We haven’t heard the last of Cody Wilson, the creator of the controversial 3D printed gun that prompted an intervention by the US State Department. For the past two months, the anarchistic 25-year-old has been working on a piece of software designed to help people circumvent the government using the semi-anonymous virtual currency Bitcoin. Wilson’s new product, made with Bitcoin entrepreneur Amir Taaki, is tentatively called Dark Wallet. Bitcoin users rely on digital ‘wallets’ to store their coins, but many wallets are confusing to use. Dark Wallet, which Wilson hopes to launch by February of 2014, will be a browser plug-in that is free, easy to install, and accessible even to non-technical users.”

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769916/3d-printed-gun-maker-cody-wilson-to-launch-bitcoin-dark-wallet

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