Cypherpunks Write Code

This Week in Bitcoin - July 18, 2022

Bitcoin is the first widely adopted cryptocurrency. Others came before it though. And before those cryptocurrencies, the same people who developed them were inventing free and open software. Before that, they were building the internet itself.

In the 1980s and 1990s, a collection of people who would come to be known as “cypherpunks” laid the foundation f…