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Re: Has anyone seen this paper from 1995?
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BitcoinBarrel
on 15/01/2014, 07:26:24 UTC
The technology was already there for the most part, but an interesting outlook 20 years before its time.
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The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.
-- Timothy May, in The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1)