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26/ I’ll leave the last word to @sassal.eth who tells us concisely what Ethereum is: https://x.com/sassal0x/status/1896147970191741298

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25/ _enoch reminds us that Cypherpunk demands of us a little bit of conviction. The ability to resist reducing Ethereum down to its worst excesses, that Cypherpunk is the bulwark against collapsing this experiment into nihilism: https://x.com/_Enoch/status/1901727298442997867

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24/ Some people argue that Cypherpunk and Degen might not be as contradictory as it might appear. Milady culture appears to blend the two quite well: https://x.com/CharlotteFang77/status/1881733278383939591

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23/ And Radicle: https://x.com/radicle/status/1833471383138873801

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22/ We got to mention Rotki too: https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1905648690007560522

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21/ There is also a subculture of Cypherpunk-aligned dApps. My favourite is @fileverse who gave us a legendary slogan: ‘we can remain Cypherpunks longer than they can remain Degen’: https://x.com/fileverse/status/1836492905789427873

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20/ Oh and be sure to check out the Women in Web3 Privacy: https://www.womeninweb3privacy.com/

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19/ But it’s not all OGs. The Web3 Privacy Now collective is an example of a neo-Cypherpunk community in that they support the traditional but also recognise a need to reboot Cypherpunk for a new generation: https://docs.web3privacy.info/

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18/ And here’s lex_node advocating that Ethereum’s stress on Cypherpunk values is its killer feature: https://x.com/lex_node/status/1889307627844448665

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17/ And here’s drnickA giving a rousing speech in defense of Cypherpunk. Putting the -punk back into Cypherpunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUrqPJDrGM

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16/ There are still some Ethereum Cypherpunk OGs however! @lefteris.eth is definitely a Cypherpunk OG. He’s known for giving some real talk about how short we fall of our values at conferences: https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1865713104169902163

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15/ These days, it is not uncommon to hear people lament how there are no more Cypherpunks or the OG Cypherpunks are burnt out. The below tweet captures the spirit and was copy pasta’d by Vitalik, causing a small drama: https://x.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1894895278551183543

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14/ The Cypherpunk ethos also features prominently in two excellent books on the founding of Ethereum: Laura Shin's ‘The Cryptopians’ and Cami Russo's ‘The Infinite Machine.’

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13/ These are paywalled articles but as a tip if you email academics they will send you their articles!

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12/ Another excellent Crypto academic worth checking out is jayapapaya who portrays the Cypherpunk mindset as that of the Hacker-Engineer, dedicated to the dream of a decentralised Web: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2020.1806223

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11/ @annbrody7 is an Ethereum ethnographer who analysed the role of Cypherpunk (and other themes) in the first social science academic article that focused exclusively on Ethereum: https://cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.22230/cjc.2021v46n3a3701

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10/ Cypherpunk has a rich history and you can read many academic articles about it. For example, kelsiemvn has written an intellectual history of Crypto movements where Cypherpunk appears heavily: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/24701475.2023.2183643

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9/ These different interpretations of Cypherpunk are a normal outcome in decentralised communities. Because there is no top-down cultural arbiter, not even Vitalik, people tend to place the emphasis in different places, although you will note recurring themes.

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8/ In Vitalik’s ‘Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again’, he gives us an expansive list, adding values like auditability and a cooperative mindset: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

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7/ In pcaversaccio’s seminal ‘The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto’ we find privacy, security, and censorship resistance listed as the core principles and these exist to support ‘immutability, decentralised governance, open access, global collaboration, and continuous evolution’: https://hackmd.io/@pcaversaccio/the-ethereum-cypherpunk-manifesto

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