Tag Archives: Cypherpunk

DarkList Links Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers

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When the Department of Justice took down the anonymous, Bitcoin-based narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road in October, the dark web drug market didn’t disappear. It splintered into smaller markets...

3D-Printed Gun Creator Lands Book Deal

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When Cody Wilson published the blueprint for the first fully 3D-printable gun on the web last spring, the controversy around that digital weapon led to its being downloaded 100,000 times in two days...

BitTorrent Creator’s New Software DissidentX Hides Secrets In Plain Sight

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Encryption tools help people keep secrets. Bram Cohen has a more subtle ambition: he wants to help people keep secret the act of keeping secrets. For the last year Cohen, who created the...
    






Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency

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When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...
    






The Most Science Fictional News Stories Of 2013 In Pictures

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In his 2005 novel Accelerando, science fiction author and futurist Charles Stross wrote a collection of stories about the accelerating pace of change in the modern world: Inspired by his experience...