Great new article “The Radical History of Bitcoin” and in my opinion very well written. It brought back memories of the time when I discovered PGP pretty early after Phil Zimmermann published it. A book about PGP was very likely my first book about serious cryptography. It's kind of hard to think about it that once publicly published cryptography was considered a military weapon and the failed attempts of three letter agencies to restrict it.

Thanks for this highly recommended read and I'm looking forward for more on this topic and how it planed the ground for the inception of Bitcoin.