A 30-Year Cypherpunk Exposes The Crimes of Global Proportions - Paul Rosenberg | Ep. 152

Paul Rosenberg is a cypherpunk author and cryptography advocate who has been in the movement since finding the original cypherpunk circles in 1995. Cryptography pioneer, author of 80 books, multiple newsletters, co-founder of Cryptohippie. He wrote A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, often called the Cypherpunks Bible, imagining a parallel society built on encryption and voluntary trade, years before Bitcoin existed. He also sat in the courtroom for Ross Ulbricht's trial. This conversation is one of my favorites: an 11-year-old prediction about Bitcoin as the next reserve currency, his eyewitness account of the Ulbricht trial, cryptography's fight against US export restrictions in the '90s, and why fear is a deliberate brain hack. Paul is one of the wisest people I've had on this show, listen and you'll see why.

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– CHAPTERS – 

00:00 - Coming Up...

01:48 - Introduction: Paul Rosenberg at BTC Prague

04:11 - Revisiting Paul's 11-Year-Old Prediction: Bitcoin as the Next Reserve Currency

11:24 - Crossing the Threshold: What Was Bitcoin's Hardest Part

11:31 - Ad Break: Expat Money & Ledn

13:57 - From Chokepoint to Trump Freeing Ross Ulbricht

17:17 - Inside the Ross Ulbricht Trial: A Political Prosecution

22:19 - The Samourai Wallet Case

24:03 - Cypherpunk Origins: Cryptography, Encryption, and the 90s Underground

30:01 - The Surveillance State, The Role of Big Tech, Google, Apple, And a Way Out

36:09 - Where AI's Going & Can It Be Decentralized?

39:46 - Ad Break: Trezor & Abundant Mines

41:35 - "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men": Free Markets, Parallel Economy Built on Encryption & Voluntary Trade

44:48 - Rebuilding Society on the Golden Rule, Recognize Fear Is a Hack

49:38 - Covid as Mass Formation: "A Crime of Global Proportions"

54:32 - Keynote Preview: "Bitcoin Is Still Bigger Than You Think It Is"

59:46 - What Gives Paul Hope