We will go over the history of the 1990s cypherpunks and major topics discussedduring that period -- including remailers, the first discussions of cryptocurrencies, and various forms of anonymous electronic markets. In addition, we will present a free archive of the mailing list and topics for future research.
Ryan Lackey has been a cypherpunk for over 20 years.He founded the world's first offshore datahaven, HavenCo, on Sealand in 2000. He was involved with pre-cryptocurrency anonymous digital currencies backed with gold and other assets, and worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones, bootstrapping a satellite and wireless communicationscompany. Later, he founded a Y Combinator-backed startup, CryptoSeal,which he sold to Cloudflare in 2014. After working at Cloudflare for the following two years, he founded ResetSecurity, a travel security company,in 2016. Twitter handle of presenter(s): @octal