Declan O'Riordan

Security Expert

Are you satisfied with your situation? If not you can try to accept it, or leave, or change yourself, or change the situation. Bitcoin and Blockchain were created by Cypherpunks who wanted to change their situation. Now they are succeeding. With free-thinking as their only resource, they challenged government control of currency, the associated legal and financial systems, hardware delivery lifecycles, established security models, and corporate exploitation of individuals’ personal data.

The speculative frenzies around cryptocurrencies and blockchain are missing the big picture. These are just two outputs produced by the Cypherpunk techno-political philosophy. I believe there is much some of us in testing can learn from Bitcoin about delivering change without constraints from conventional thinking.

If you want technical details, I recommend reading ‘The Risk and Test in Bitcoin’. Rather than repeat that material I would like to help you understand the free-thinking ideology driving Bitcoin development. Let’s peer into the minds of Cypherpunks and see what we can borrow, if our own minds will allow us.

Takeaways:

The Cypherpunk techno-political philosophy

How to examine the absolute limits of what is possible

Why too much conventional thinking is not a safe option

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