Crypto started as a cypherpunk project, but somewhere along the way, privacy got sidelined.
Interesting enough, over the past few months, privacy has reemerged not as ideology for its own sake, but as a practical response to surveillance, regulation, and institutionalization of crypto.
I wrote an essay regarding why the cypherpunk ethos is resurfacing now, what changed structurally, and the ramifications going forward.
Posted by dliebs72