> Bullshit. Cypherpunks don’t just exist in SV. Any cypherpunk who still cares about their principles would recoil in horror at SV that was there since circa 20

> Bullshit. Cypherpunks don’t just exist in SV. Any cypherpunk who still cares about their principles would recoil in horror at SV that was there since circa 2015 ( and that’s being generous), let alone now. I never said they did and I agree: what I did say is that is where it began and it's origins was in SV in the 90s [0] which is when I was a kid in CA and feel it's part of my culture as I grew up on the internet back then (hence my interest in tech). I'd say at the end of the first crypto war things started to get dire so by the dotcom era in the 2000s the Corpo take over of the internet was in full swing--which is when Neal Stepenson released the seminal piece Cryptonomicon and outlined the vital nature of having a currency free from the control of nation-states, which is at the crux of the cypherpunk movement and one can argue really goes back to Alan Turing himself. I'd argue it happened not in 2015, but by the time 'web2' was created that SV became the cesspool it is now, domain squatting made useless people into overnight millionaires rather that then invested in ever-more intrusive business models; though room 614A at ATT's facility in SF was a thing so... If you want a real history lesson check this out [1]. > Gene Kan: Correct, stupid auto insert... I still remember how crazy that was back then, especially during the whole Napster v Metallica feud. Aside from his interest in open source tech he was also an avid auto-crosser, too; I think he was super into Miatas. The internet was/felt much smaller back then. 0: https://youtu.be/9vM0oIEhMag?t=99 https://youtu.be/9vM0oIEhMag?t=99 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdmpAy1hI8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdmpAy1hI8g