What are Cyper punk? Where It All Began?

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About This Presentation

Cypherpunks are the digital rebels who believe that privacy is power.

The movement started in the early 1990s with a group of hackers, programmers, and activists.
They formed a mailing list to discuss one big idea:
👉 How can technology protect people from surveillance and control?


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WHAT ARE
CYPER PUNK?

Cypherpunks are the digital
rebels who believe that

IN &) privacy is power. (6-3)
f (NO e ©.

WHERE IT Y
ALL BEGAN

The movement started in the early 1990s with
a group of hackers, programmers, and activists.
They formed a mailing list to discuss one big idea

€ How can technology protect people from surveillance and control?

WHAT THEY BELIEVE ©

Cypherpunks believe in:

© Privacy as a human right La
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® Free communication without canse

@ Open-source software for transparency
® Code as a tool of resistance.

Their motto: “Cypherpunks write code’ 7

THEKEY @
FIGURES

The Cypherpunk vision was led by legennds like

Timothy C. May Eric Hughes Hal Finney
wrote ‘The Crypto author of helped launch
Anarchist 'ACypherpunk's Bitcoin and received

Manifesto’ the first BTC ever

Manifesto’

THEIR EN

IMPACT TODAY

THEIR IDEAS GAVE BIRTH TO BITCOIN, AND
THE WEB3 REVOLUTION.

EVERY TIME YOU USE ENCRYPTION, CRYPTO, OR
A DECENTRALIZED APP, YOU’RE LIVING THE

CYPHERPUNK DREAM