Who Were the Cypherpunks?

Looking back at a group of people who laid the foundation for bitcoin, online privacy, and the ever-changing future of tech.

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 fo…