eric hughes said it in his manifesto, back in 1993 privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic gauge. we cannot expect government corporations or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. cyberpunk, right code. we know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy, unless we all do, we're going to write it. say, believe that true human expression is really only possible when you can protect your anonymity. out of this movement came many attempts to recreate various fundamental institutions of society using the complex mathematics, cryptographic systems. so things like voting systems, digital communication systems that enabled very strong privacy. the cipher pumps were a group of individuals who felt their cryptography could enable new human freedom, that freedom to communicate in the freedom to send money. and there were many different versions or ideas behind like digital cash. i've got to send something from my mom's birthday. well then book plane tickets for a trip next week and my kids gotta go t