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appreciation

Being relatively new here, it took me a little while to read and understand who Roman Storm is. His case came on my radar for the first time this week while reading @chaskin.eth’s and other people’s casts here. I’m not sure I would have heard about it outside of Farcaster.

I want to say this as a reminder that many of us newcomers are not as steeped in the news that are not “news” to most here. I’m not active on “Crypto Twitter” or other forums where I’d naturally come across this information. So I’m grateful I get to learn here about issues that deeply matter to decentralization.

Even though I’m a “non crypto person,” the importance of protecting fundamental rights to privacy and to publish code is clear to me. That’s why I just donated to help support Roman Storm's legal defense fund. Much appreciation to all who raised awareness and created this simple way to support.

** warning shilling a blog post I wrote **

At the end of last year I realized I didn’t know much about the cypherpunks, just that they pushed for privacy. Then I learned about their fearless fight for freedom and was inspired

If you want to learn more about them I wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum

If you're lazy... TLDR

In the 90s, it started with cypherpunks rallying behind privacy software like PGP, including getting crypto algos tattooed on them to show it's just speech, and ended with a court ruling that code is free speech under the First Amendment. This set a legal precedent, giving us a freer world with private communication

“Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it.”

- Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

** warning shilling a blog post I wrote **

At the end of last year I realized I didn’t know much about the cypherpunks, just that they pushed for privacy. Then I learned about their fearless fight for freedom and was inspired

If you want to learn more about them I wrote a blog on their history, innovations, and how their ethos lives on in Ethereum

If you're lazy... TLDR

In the 90s, it started with cypherpunks rallying behind privacy software like PGP, including getting crypto algos tattooed on them to show it's just speech, and ended with a court ruling that code is free speech under the First Amendment. This set a legal precedent, giving us a freer world with private communication

“Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it.”

- Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto

https://paragraph.com/@chaskin/who-even-were-the-cypherpunks

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