2026-07-11 –, Idea Stage
What's being a cypherpunk in the 2020s?
Is our old manifesto from the early 1990s still relevant 30 years later? Our socio-economic environment has changed; where computers were once for a select few, we now embrace digitalisation en masse.
How can you play a part in today's environment?
In the fight against a surveillance capitalistic world, we need to organise ourselves to avoid the pitfalls and deviate our track towards an evolved 1984. As we become more advanced, how do we ensure we don't become the Goliath we all fight against?
Let's not hide behind big brands claiming to be cypherpunks; let's not feel comfortable building the infrastructure nobody will use. Cypherpunks care about open-source AND usability. A tool nobody uses is time and effort spent in vain.
We don't need millions in VC funds; we need millions utilising our software. We need millions of people choosing cryptographic tools, especially those who don't understand the mathematics behind them.
This talk will go over historical cypherpunks and current-age crypto-anarchism alongside a starting point for those who are keen to get involved, no matter what their skill set entails.
A talk for builders, not limited to coders.
This talk is a presentation of roughly 30/40 minutes, alongside ample space for questions. Within this talk, I look at today's age generation of cypherpunk work alongside the old manifesto, and debate some of its older principles to be renewed.
I tend to go deeper within historical facts, bring up Berlin's past, alongside looking at today's work that's being done.
At its core, this talk is not a technical deep dive, nor is it a technical explanation beyond some artefacts. It's aimed at combining our technological world with the practical world of today. Alongside a strong cultural historical twist.
A previous variation, of last year, can be seen here, which was presented at the Web3Summit as its closing keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sDsddJyLo
This presentation was also requested to be submitted by Wendy.
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Nomadic individual who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons all over the world.
Working ad hoc on privacy within the ecosystem.