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Cory Doctorow

Mar 27

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The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis

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Listen to those who extol the virtues of blockchain and cryptocurrency and pretty soon, you’ll hear about the power of cryptocurrency to resist tyranny.

This isn’t a novel claim: the cypherpunk movement of the early 1990s (widely acknowledged as the intellectual and technological…

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