Privacy and The Cypherpunk Revival

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.

https://open.substack.com/pub/defidave/p/privacy-and-the-cypherpunk-revival?r=zfakj&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay