politics

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto should be required reading in the Palantir age. It should give you hope. Not because it’s edgy and therefore cool. But because of what it means amid a great threat posed by centralized systems — there is hope through technology. The centralized forces push hard, but then suddenly emerges Bitcoin. This action-reaction will happen over and again. It’s a cat-and-mouse game, always has been. Printing press and Catholic Church, for example. There’s too much despair. Crypto is not an edgy technology for the sake of being edgy and niche. It’s a bottom-up defense mechanism. So don’t despair. The more you use it, the better off we will be

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html