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| Subject: What Is Crypto-Anarchism And How Is It The Most Successful Branch of Libertarianism? Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:18 am | |
| When people are first introduced to libertarianism, people are usually introduced to two types of thought, minarchism and anarchism. Minarchism, to which I personally subscribe, is defined by Wikipedia as “a libertarian political philosophy which advocates for the state to exist solely to provide a very small number of services.” Whereas anarchism is defined as “a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.” Of course, once you dive deeper into libertarianism there are many sub-groups of both minarchism and anarchism. Crypto-anarchism is merely one of those branches of anarchistic thought, and it appears to also be the most popular, even amongst the mainstream. In fact, many in the technology communities may be crypto-anarchists and not even realize it. I myself identify myself as a arypto-anarchist when it comes to cyber-space, however I still associate personally with minarchism in non-cyber-space affairs.
First, let’s start off by explaining what crypto-anarchism is. It’s an idea and a concept that began spreading in 1988 when Timothy C. May released his “Crypto Anarchist Manifesto” which introduced the basic principles and ideas of crypto-anarchism which are using encrypted exchanges to ensure total anonymity, total freedom of speech, and total freedom to trade, along with the foreseeable hostility coming from governments. The manifesto itself, is rather small at a mere five paragraphs but is still descriptive as well as as relevant back then as it is today. The entire manifesto can be read here.
https://beinglibertarian.com/what-is-crypto-anarchism-and-how-is-it-the-most-successful-branch-of-libertarianism/ |
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