by Nick Giambruno, International Man:

Last week, I wrote about how the Cypherpunks helped break the government’s monopoly on cryptography. (In case you missed it, click here).

It laid the philosophical and technological foundation for Bitcoin.

A free-market, non-state digital money had long been the Cypherpunks’ ultimate goal.

They—and others—made numerous attempts, but none of them worked.