Crypto-anarchist

The crypto anarchist position is that cyberspace is on a non-stop drift towards crypto anarchy. Powerful encryption algorithms, including the Data Encryption Standard (DES), triple-DES, RSA and IDEA, are readily available at no charge […]

About a year ago I bought 30 Bitcoins, the online peer-to-peer crypto-currency, for about £3 each using a European website called Bitstamp.net. Bitcoins appealed to my inner crypto-anarchist and I felt they had great potential.

Crypto-anarchists build software – think of it as political computer code – that can protect us online. Julian Assange is a crypto-anarchist (before WikiLeaks he was an active member of the movement’s most important mailing list), and so perhaps is Edward Snowden.

There's a strong crypto anarchist thread running through the cryptocurrency community. What's a crypto anarchist, you ask? The term was likely first coined (if you excuse the pun!) by Tim May, in his 1988 Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.

One of the film’s producers is Cody Wilson, a self-defined “crypto-anarchist”. His various run-ins with the law include pleading guilty to endangering a child after being brought up on charges of paying a minor for sex and a legal battle with the feds after he released blueprints online for creating a firearm by 3D printer.