Crypto Anarchy:
Encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black markets, collapse of governments.
Recent Blog Posts
- The Cypherpunks Mailing List archives must be preserved – 05 Jul 2018
- Why I made this site and why I chose the Jolly Roger as its logo – 26 May 2018
Getting Started
- What is Crypto Anarchy?
- What is a Cypherpunk?
- What is the Cypherpunks Mailing List?
- What is Bitcoin (And How is it Related)?
Contribute
Maybe in the future, this site will have full wiki functionality.
For now, contributors can submit pull requests to the following repository:
There are instructions on this page, so even the non-technical can contribute.
Cypherpunks Mailing List
- cryptoanarchy.wiki - Mailing List Archive (1992-2000)
- Github - Mailing List Archive (2000 - 2016) - Raw and unstructured
- lists.cpunks.org - Mailing List Archive (July 2013 to Present)
- The Cyphernomicon (Cypherpunks Mailing List FAQ)
Sources
- Full Cryptography Primer Courses
- Philosophical/Ideological Sources
- Technical Sources
- Historical Sources & Media Articles
- Books
People & Organisations
- Pioneers of Modern Cryptography
- Early Cypherpunks
- Cryptocurrency Notables
- Later Cypherpunks and Crypto-Anarchists
- Notable Organisations
- Cypherpunk Successor Online Communities
- Cypherpunk/Cryptocurrency Publications
Events
- 1970s - The Discovery of Public Key Cryptography
- 1990s - Crypto Wars, Phil Zimmermann and PGP
- 2008/2009 - The Creation of Bitcoin and Early Community
- Jun 2011 - The Great Bitcoin Bubble of 2011
- Feb 2011-Oct 2013 - The Rise and Fall of the Silk Road
- Mar 2012 - The Bitcoinica Hack
- June 2013 - The Snowden Leaks
- Apr-Dec 2013 - The Second and Third Bitcoin Bubbles
- Feb 2014 - The Collapse of Mt Gox (The Final Goxxing)
- Feb 2015 - The Trial of Ross Ulbricht
- May 2016 - The Craig Wright Affair (and other attempts to identify Satoshi)
- June 2016 - The DAO Hack
- Early 2017 - The Altcoin/ICO Bubble and Fourth Bitcoin Bubble
- Jul/Aug 2017 - Bitcoin Scaling Battles (Big vs Small Blockers: SegWit vs SegWit2x vs Bitcoin Cash)
- Jan 2018 - Bitconnnnneeeeeccccccttttt
Key Concepts
- Public/Private Key Cryptography
- Hash Functions
- Cryptographic Signatures
- End-to-End Encryption
- PGP
- Anonymous Remailers
- BitTorrent
- Onion Routing
- Blockchains
- Merkle Trees
- Bloom Filters
- Distributed Hash Tables
- P2P Routing Algorithms
- Mesh Networks
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Notable Projects
- Bitcoin
- BitTorrent
- Defcad
- Ethereum
- I2P
- IPFS
- JoinMarket
- OpenBazaar
- Opendime
- PGP
- Tor