Aaron van Wirdum on Nostr: One thing I always respected about Tim May is how relentlessly unapologetic he was ...
One thing I always respected about Tim May is how relentlessly unapologetic he was when it came to the darker side of cypherpunk technology.
Bitcoin, too, will be used by very bad people to do very bad things. Freedom has its price.
(Referenced post:
https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/10/msg01269.html — but there are many like it.)
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