"That is the key innovation of Bitcoin: It detaches property rights from the legal system and the monopoly on violence. For the first time,...
“It's actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source...
"It would be wrong to think of Cypherpunks as a formal group. It's more a gathering of those who share a predilection for codes,...