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  • Honouring Jude Milhon

    Honouring Jude Milhon

    My fellow citizens, the cyber battlefield always beckons, and Jude Milhon, was ready to engage. Her quill danced across the keyboard, not with ink, but with purpose, crafting words that can disarm, that can incite, that can illuminate the path to a brighter tomorrow. St. Jude Milhon, whose unwavering faith guided her through the trials…

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous

    We honour Anonymous, the militant hacker group, who attacks wrongdoers, often by doxing their wrongdoings. This is the other side to the cypherpunk’s ideals: these wrongdoers would have preferred to have their wrongdoings kept private.

  • Nic Carter

    Nic Carter

    We honour Nic Carter, Macro Economist and Bitcoiner, who has been analysing Bitcoin for many years. He is a partner at Castle Island Ventures and believes “The Bank Secrecy Act is unconstitutional and must be repealed”. He is not a Bitcoin Maximalist. He is a popular contributor to podcasts.

  • Nick Szabo

    Nick Szabo

    Nick Szabo, a computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer, developed the phrase and concept of “smart contracts”, popularised by Ethereum.

  • St. Jude Mihlon

    St. Jude Mihlon

    St. Jude Milhon, a self-taught programmer, civil rights advocate, writer, editor, advocate for women in computing, hacker and author.  Jude was someone whose spirit led her to be a cypherpunk, and the programming and activism followed.

  • Hal Finney

    Hal Finney

    Hal Finney, a computer programmer militantly concerned with privacy, ran two anonymous remailers and worked for PGP corporation until his retirement. He received the first Bitcoin transaction from Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.

  • David Lee Chaum

    David Lee Chaum

    David-Lee Chaum, computer scientist, cryptographer, and cypherpunk, did the important initial work on decentralised blockchains He invented digital cash and developed eCash.

  • Andy Müller Maguhn

    Andy Müller Maguhn

    Andy Müller Maguhn, principally known as a hacker and a member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), had a close association with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

  • Adam Back

    Adam Back

    Adam Back, cypherpunk embracing bitcoin and blockchains. He invented Hashcash which influenced Bitcoin, where he has also been involved and is the CEO of Blockstream, which was born out of the Bitcoin revolution. He also is very much a professional cryptanalyst.

  • Eric Hughes

    Eric Hughes

    Eric (“Cypherpunks write code”) Hughes, mathematician, computer programmer, and core founding cypherpunk, did important work to help found the movement with the anonymous remailer; he administered the Cypherpunk mailing list and authored the Cypherpunk’s Manifesto.

  • Adi Shamir

    Adi Shamir

    Adi Shamir, mathematician, cryptographer and computer scientist. He is the joint inventor of the  Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) cipher and a joint discoverer of differential cryptanalysis.

  • Ryan Sean Adams

    Ryan Sean Adams

    Ryan Sean Adams, co-host of Bankless. The concept behind Bankless, is financial freedom without having to have a bank account.

  • David Hoffman

    David Hoffman

    David Hoffman, Bankless co-host, came to cryptocurrencies through ethereum and innovated with real-estate real-world assets (RWA) on the blockchain.

  • Julian Assange

    Julian Assange

    Julian Assange, programmer, hacker, cypherpunk, publisher and founder of WikiLeaks. In 2010, when WikiLeaks published the Chelsea Manning leaks, Julian was targeted by the United States for extradition.  You are forever in our thoughts.

  • Satoshi Nakamoto

    Satoshi Nakamoto

    We honour Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous person(s) behind Bitcoin. So we do not know who he/she/they/it is/are. We probably never will. It seems fitting that someone being such a key person(s) behind such a key cypherpunk initiative should be pseudonymous and then vanish.

  • Andreas Antonopoulos

    Andreas Antonopoulos

    We honour Andreas Antonopoulos, who has been one of the best entertaining and most important speakers on Bitcoin. His arguments changed the minds of many in the early days of Bitcoin.

  • Richard Stallman, FSF

    Richard Stallman, FSF

    We honour Richard (Matthew) Stallman (rms), Free Software Foundation (FSF), programmer and father of the free software movement, to allow users the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify software.

  • Jonathan Mohan

    Jonathan Mohan

    We honour Jonathan Mohan, podcaster on the Speaking Of Bitcoin (formerly Let’s Talk-Bitcoin) podcast. This was a great podcast in the earlier years of Bitcoin and Ethereum and helped share the message.

  • Whitfield Diffie

    Whitfield Diffie

    mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of public key cryptography. His important work on key distribution, the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, gave birth to asymmetric key algorithms.

  • Julian Assange

    Julian Assange

    Julian Assange, programmer, hacker, cypherpunk, publisher and founder of WikiLeaks. In 2010, when WikiLeaks published the Chelsea Manning leaks, Julian was targeted by the United States for extradition.

  • Zooko Wilcox

    Zooko Wilcox

    Zooko Wilcox O’Hearn, Electric Coin Company, ZCash. Zooko is a cryptographer and a cypherpunk who worked on DigiCash with David Chaum and was behind establishing ZCash, a privacy-based cryptocurrency.

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst. Until his work on decrypting the German enigma machine during the 2nd World War was made public, he was known mostly in computer science for his papers on computability, specifically for Turing Machines.

  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds

    Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a giant of mathematics and theoretical physics. His life was an inspiration to those who followed him. The rise of Hitler early in his life led to his immigration to the USA. He was not afraid to speak out on politics and society, similar to cypherpunks.