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Anarchast Ep.464

Topics include: 1990’s free nation project, the early days of the internet, early multi-million dollar cryptography project, a whole cryptographic financial system completed by 2002, bulletin boards and irc chat, early solution to the double spend problem, pgp was a big deal, encryption considered to be a weapon, the cypherpunk list, the perpetual travelers, Extropians, spies, things that led to Bitcoin, origins of proof of work, EGold was a very big deal, Satoshi mentions EGold, Bitcoin rolls all this history into one elegant package, Satoshi was a cypherpunk, the real purpose of Wikileaks, Assange, building a better future, Anarchapulco 2020!