2025-06-12 –, Side Stage - Cinema 7
What's being a cypherpunk in the 2020s? Is our old manifesto from the early 1990s still relevant 30 years later? Our socio-economic environment has changed; where before computers were for a select few, we have now embraced digitalisation on masse.
How can you play a part in today's environment? A talk for builders, not limited to coders.
In the fight against a surveillance capitalistic world, we need to organise ourselves to avoid the pitfalls and deviate our track towards an evolved 1984. As we become more advanced, how do we ensure we don't become the Goliath we all fight against?
Let's not hide behind big brands claiming to be cypherpunks; let's not feel comfortable building the infrastructure nobody will use. Cypherpunks care about open-source AND usability. A tool nobody uses is time and effort spent in vain.
We don't need millions in VC funds; we need millions utilising our software. We need millions of people choosing cryptographic tools, especially those who don't understand the mathematics behind it.
This talk will go over historical cypherpunks and current-age crypto-anarchism alongside a starting point for those who are keen to get involved no matter what their skill set entails.
Nomadic individual who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons all over the world.
Currently core @Web3Privacy Now alongside working ad-hoc on privacy x security bounties within the ecosystem. Nothing fancy, just an aged script-kiddie.