Quote from: L.Detweiler on November 16, 2014, 01:16:23 PM

Quote from: El Emperador on November 16, 2014, 12:00:08 PM

I would add that both internet and Bitcoin are decentralized technologies.
Maybe in the mid 90's people became bored with centralized media system, as well as now many people all over the world is fedding up of banks.

You are 100% correct.....

The Internet and Bitcoin were created to allow people to solve social problems in a novel way: Instead of the ancient formula of the strongest wins and then beats the crap out of the loser we all can achieve a peaceful society where both rich and poor, strong and weak can protect their property and freedom on more equal grounds without relying on violent institutions like governments.

Cypherpunk movement started as a mailing list in 1992.(Eric Hughes, Tim May, Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Wei Dai, Adam Back, Ray Dillenger, etc)

Heres an excerpt from Cypherpunks FAQ:

2.3. Whats the Big Picture?

"Strong crypto is here. It is widely available. It implies many changes in the way the world works. Private channels between parties who have never met and who never will meet are possible. Totally anonymous, unsinkable, untraceable communications and exchanges are possible".

"Transactions can only be voluntary, since the parties are untraceable and unknown and can withdraw at any time. This has profound implications for the conventional approach of using the threat of force, directed against parties by governments or by others. In particular, threats of force will fail".

"What emerges from this is unclear, but I think it will be a form of anarcho-capitalist market system I call crypto anarchy. (Voluntary communications only, with no third parties butting in)".

*Tim May quote which explains why a system like Bitcoin would have to be created and launched open-sourced and anonymously.

Tim May: Anyone contemplating building such a system, or entity, or cybercorporation, should think long and hard about the wisdom of ever having an identifiable nexus of attack. Money must be collected in untraceable ways. This is what I meant about it being time to rethink the theory of the corporation.

"Where once a corporation existed to both protect the rights of shareholders (against lawsuits and partners having to pay for losses) and to enable the group participation of many workers, corporations for the things Cypherpunks think are interesting is just a bad idea. And given the growing trend toward trying to prosecute the V.P of Yahoo-Europe because some bit of Nazi history was sold to some German citizen, etc., corporations are becoming a liability in cyberspace.

"The answer is to vanish into cyberspace. Not an easy task, maybe, given the state of todays tools, but the long term trend".

Edit: I forgot to mention John Gilmore who has fought for our online freedom since the beginning of the internet. Without him standing up for us, we would have totally lost the battle.....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)

This sounds like the real detweiler.
Heheh, I remember you from the list back then.
Why aren't there more from those days into bitcoin now?