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‘Economics Will No Longer Be the Handmaiden of Politics’: A History of the Cypherpunks, Feat. Jim Epstein
An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:27 a.m. Published Nov 4, 2020, 8:00 p.m.
An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement.
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Jim Epstein is the executive editor of ReasonTV podcasts, and the producer of the recent documentary “Cypherpunks Write Code.”
In this conversation, he gives NLW a behind the scenes look on the interviews and conversations that went into the documentary, including how the cypherpunks started, schisms in the movement, and how the movement lives on today.
Watch “Cypherpunks Write Code”
- Part 1: youtu.be/YWh6Yzr12iQ
- Part 2: youtu.be/n4qonsvSgAg
- Part 3: youtu.be/lv8OFSWZkGs
- Part 4: youtu.be/HDKQulqVCQg
Find Jim Epstein online:
twitter.com/jimepstein
See also: Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks
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