Bitcoin’s philosophical roots are predicated in the ‘cypherpunk’ movement. Manifestations of this movement have generally been in virtual spaces: mailing lists, forums, and chat rooms. Eric Hughes may well have imagined Bob using a mobile device to order a kebab from the other side of town, and Oracle surreptitiously recording Bob’s beef consumption.
This project will start to deploy Cypherpunk within our selected communities, using meatspace bootstrap toolkits, so that successful experiments that unlock new value streams can be replicated by other communities.
The current backdrop of surveillance, totalitarianism, endless wars, attacks on democracy, censorship, economic plunder, and general orwellian cringe, provides well-timed pretext for this project. Our engineering specialisations allow us to do an socio-economic side-load that has the potential to boot communities worldwide into a Golden Era.
Attempts to revive cypherpunk have so far been cringe. Bitcoin continues to offer-up Rockstar Dev, Calle, and assorted corporate billionaires as heroic cultural icons. Authentic punk movements necessarily emerge from the streets, not from $599 conferences. ‘Astroturfing’ cannot propagate what is inherently inauthentic and cringe. But there’s no reason why authentic movements can’t be supported by data science…
The Summer of ’69 was the Summer of Love. Woodstock gave people hope – Irish Independent.
Politics is downstream of Culture – Andrew Breitbart
Almost everyone can agree that a collective goal of hope & abundance, peace and liberty, is an altogether better vision. Using a quantitative approach to niche social sciences (phenomenology, mass formation etc.) we have an opportunity to create a new freedom wave, powered by community self-sovereignty and sound money… make it based asf… and make it spread like wildfire.
