Monday, October 6, 2025

Vitalik hates cypherpunk

 Why else would he tolerate Vinay Gupta?  The Tangler.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertarians-an-interview-with-old-school-cypherpunk-vinay-gupta-1415220752

And remember, we really tangled with these guys in the 90’s. Public key cryptography was regarded a weapon of war back then. The American government was really friggin’ pissed off at us, and did as much damage as they could within the law. Constant harassment, legal pressure, people lost their jobs… the whole thing was constantly on the verge of everybody ending up in jail as far as we could tell . . ."

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