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Eric Hughes
Wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto.
Known as Eric HughesActive Mar 1993 →
Why they matter
"Cypherpunks write code" became the ethos of a generation of privacy engineers — the culture that produced Hashcash, b-money, RPOW and ultimately Bitcoin.
Profile
Mathematician and co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list who wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993): "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age... Cypherpunks write code."