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WTF Crypto-Anarchy??

Crypto-anarchism is a political ideology that advocates the use of cryptography and other technologies to protect individual privacy, freedom, and autonomy from state interference. Crypto-anarchists believe that by encrypting their communications and transactions, we can create a decentralized and voluntary society that is immune to censorship, surveillance, and taxation. The term crypto-anarchism was coined by Timothy C. May in his 1988 "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto", where he declared: "Crypto Anarchy is the cyberspatial realization of anarchism, transcending national boundaries and freeing individuals to make the economic arrangements they wish, consensually." May was one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, a group of activists and hackers who promoted the use of cryptography and digital currencies to challenge the authority of governments and corporations. The cypherpunks were influenced by libertarian and anarchist thinkers such as Murray Rothbard, David

Hardware, Software and Anarchowear.

As the digital world added a layer on top of our physical one and cyberpunks and pioneers of this new world hack away on keyboards and touchscreens, pulling the future towards us instead of us going to it. Code gets put into machines, machines build other machines and the entrepreneurial spirit of mankind gets an ever increasing toolbox to turn its wonderful fantasies into reality. Not everything is a straight digital highway to freedom, there is many roadblocks and bumps in the road, as the vulnerability of the old world gets exposed when its standing face-to-face with the new one. It defies its rules and forces it to react as an afterthought. The European Union scrambled together article 11 and 13 in an effort to stave off rampant infringement of copyrights that nobody but lawyers are concerned about and even though we don't know the full effect it will have on the internet as a whole, there is already counter-measures available that will spread like wildfire from the da

Limits to self-defense?

Where do we draw the line for what is acceptable self-defense? When can we start acting in self-defense? That, plus recollections of an interesting conversation at a local pub over the subject of a brightly yellow book and some ponderings on physical removal-memes is on today's menu. Bon Appetit! | Alex Utopium One of my dearest hobbies is reading books and one of my preferred spots to read them is in a local pub- There is something very special with the ambient noises of the pub, to me: The clinking glasses, bar stool scraping, low-volume conversation. Its harmonious to me. The atmosphere can turn a trashy book to at least a readable experience by the virtue of the surroundings. This one time a guy sat down next to me and started asking questions about the book I was writing down notes from, in the company of a huge cup of coffee. It was the color of the book (extremely yellow, screaming for attention) that drew his eyes in the first place, but it was the title of the book t