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Cypherpunk meaning
A person with an interest in encryption and privacy, especially one who uses encrypted email.
Example sentences (7)
It is through this cypherpunk movement that the decentralization concept became central to Bitcoin.
Unfortunately, if blockchain startups need regular people to understand and care about new “self-sovereign data” business models, they’re likely to remain as niche as other cypherpunk projects that sought to redistribute the power of the internet.
But, according to the author citation the book's title is — in spite of its similarity — not based on the Cyphernomicon, an online cypherpunk FAQ document.
Much of the plot revolves around cypherpunk ideas; the leading characters are building a data haven which will allow anonymous financial transactions, and the book is full of cryptography.
One can not answer a message sent via a Cypherpunk remailer.
Software projects Anonymous remailers such as the Mixmaster Remailer were almost entirely a cypherpunk development.
The original cypherpunk mailing list, and the first list spin-off, coderpunks, were originally hosted on John Gilmore 's toad.