Co -founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin gave a speech on Wednesday at ETHCC, asking blockchain programmers to focus on releasing humanity through their inventions, and not building more technically advanced tools.
Barzon compared the individual ethos of the freedom of early internet in the 90s with the current ethos in blockchain, noticing that free and open internet defending In early digital laws, John Perry Barlow was lost in the Web2 era.
The co -founder of Ethereum characterized Web2 as a collection of “masonry gardens”, warning the recipients that many founders of Web2, who since then became known from censorship policy, formulated as supporters of freedom at the beginning. Buuterin carefully WEB3 founders do not fall into the same trap:
“People who work on cryptography really have to think more actively about cryptography as something that has social and moral implications and something that you actually need to actively think about social and moral implications of what you build.”
He continued, saying to the audience: “If you build something, the first question that should be asked is: do you make it easier for users?”
Freedom and individual freedom are the features of the Cypherpunk movement, which was at the root of cryptocurrencies in the earliest days, but as state officials mature and the courts, international corporations and banks, many are afraid that the early Cypherpunk ethos gives way to institutional inertia.
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“Suitcoiners” vs anti-establand software programmers
Cypherpunk movement, which consists of software programmers who believe in protecting privacy and individual freedom through comprehensive encryption, began in the 1980s.
Early Cypherpunkt played a key role in the popularization of digital encryption at a time when the American National Security Agency (NSA) wanted to present limitations on the employ and export of encryption technology in the 1990s.
In the early days of cryptocurrencies, from 2009 to around 2021, Cypherpunk ideals such as privacy, censorship resistance, building parallel systems and libertarian political theory were synonymous with the industry.
However, the growth of the cryptocurrency sector and the rapid recognition of digital assets in its foundation are still attracted by institutional interests on the part of enterprises and the government.
These institutional actors, called “suitcoiners” by many Supporters of Bitcoin and Crypto have become a forked line, which divided the cryptographic community into people focused on development and those who want to preserve the early anti-establishment ethos, which initiated all this.
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