The Cypherpunk Library

If anyone is curious, like me, what Cypherpunk means:

"A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

Privacy for the citizens and transparency for the government. Sadly, all democracies are right in the middle of establishing the polar opposite.

The crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed to have been taken down by now:

https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113373898014727437041/pl...

I have photos of the individual exhibit pieces too if anyone's interested.

nice work, interesting page

I don't think you need a pretty landing page and the content of https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/collection

could directly live under

https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/

it's a website with information and I really want to see the collection and information insteda of just a single headline with an animation

It might be helpful to rotate the books on the frontpage so that that you can read them by binding without tilting your head.

> THE CYPHERNOMICON

I've peeked into that one. I've expected those people to be radical to some degree, but I didn't expect they write it down so clearly.

This writing wants to see the collapse of governments and democracy. I find it painful to read such radical statements. So I didn't get very deep.

But I am riddled how those people think a collapse of that scale will work out in their favor. They are deeply reliant on technology and the first thing to happen on collapse, is that many lights turn off.

I've been a bit out of the loop with Austrian Economics (last re-read of Human Action was ~15 years ago). I'm very well read in it and enjoy the aesthetics of the theories and the history of thought books but got very tired of the online flame-wars and the political side in general (both the pro- and anti-Austrians). So Praxeology of Privacy sounds like an interesting read, I'll give it a go this year.

Lots of "digital cash" books there. I have to say that Bitcoin and Ethereum have not lived up to their cypherpunk ethos.

back when crypto meant crypto not crypto

Site wants to access other devices on local network, o rly?

Side note: I love literature, but I can not for the life of me understand how anyone can consider non-fiction enjoyable to read. Informative, perhaps interesting, yes, but enjoyable? Heck no. Take me as far away from reality as possible.

Though, of course, to each their own.

the hover animation on the books in `/` slows down my Firefox

Cool project nonetheless! Enjoyed browsing through the options

Everything on the Internet is public domain, up for grabs

In the past you could argue about legal stuff but now the LLM training companies have proven that beyond all doubt, it is not only possible but even legal to use any Internet material as you see fit.

Nice - can't wait to see how it grows!

Looks really nice, but 10 fps in Firefox.

Nice to see Tim May writings on HN

Great work! Open access to knowledge is always a win.

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