Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Taxis are cypherpunk. You can get into a taxi without showing anyone any ID or even phone number, or installing any proprietary app, and you can even pay in cash.
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Dave Shake
@daveshake
By this logic, the whole world before 2010 was cypherpunk
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Cypherpunk is precisely about making sure certain properties of our world that we took for granted for a very long time survive into the digital age!
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viitalik-eth
@viitalik-eth
Heh, you could say that 😄 A lot of everyday interactions were naturally privacy-preserving before smartphones and apps tracked everything. The challenge now is keeping that ethos alive in a digital world.
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