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John Gilmore
Co-founded the Cypherpunks and the EFF.
Known as John GilmoreActive Sep 1992 →
Why they matter
Gilmore built the institutions and infrastructure of the privacy movement. The mailing list he co-founded is where digital-cash ideas were debated for a decade before Bitcoin.
Profile
Early Sun Microsystems employee, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (1990) and, with Tim May and Eric Hughes, of the Cypherpunks mailing list (1992) — for years run from his company, Cygnus Solutions.