← back cypherpunk Mar 25, 2026The mastermind behind most of it was Len Sassaman. He was Satoshi Nakamoto. Lansky laid the foundation, and others added their own bricks, but Len's genius was unprecedented. Period.
I'm not sure whether he was directly suicided but he certainly was poisoned as many of us are right now. He just got it worse. So was Aaron and many other more.
I didn't want to play The Game, but apparently I was part of it all along. I will start small. A small suite of apps guided by the cypherpunk manifesto. And from that... I will arise.
All this Face ID and related tech is just the beginning. I'm pretty sure it will be used against us. I believe in sovereignty, and we are losing it bit by bit. I only use a mobile phone for banking now, since apparently there is no other way. I don't carry it with me anymore. Tracking device, webcam, and microphone for them? No way. My home is dumb now. Fuck smart. They got greedy. I went back to minimalism. Did I mention I was being spied on by someone on a completely different continent? That was it. I'm done.
We need to use technology to protect our privacy and anonymity. In a utopian world, that wouldn't be necessary, but we do not live in such a world. Here, humans can do very evil shit.
I will now focus on creating apps along those lines: freedom, anonymity, and sovereignty.
I have games to create, but I am taking a break from them. Maybe this detour will help me create more stories. History is written by the winners... Let's create many histories and let people decide what happened.
This is not merely a complaint about implementation details.
It's rather philosophical to me. Software always carries a model of the human being inside it. Every system, whether it admits it or not, makes a claim about what a person is, I, for one, believe.
I am interested in software that starts with the premise, a being:
- is not an account.
- is a consciousness with boundaries.
- should be allowed to reveal one thing without revealing ten others.
- should be allowed to speak without permanently merging every context of their life into one searchable dossier.
- should be allowed to possess privacy not as a favor, not as a subscription feature, not as a line in a privacy policy, but as a structural property of the system itself.
That is.
I do not want software that deserves trust. I want software that requires as little trust as possible.
So, the stack I will use will be Rust and Elixir, mainly.
Rust for the parts that should be exact, local, durable, and difficult to screw up.
Elixir for the parts that should route, coordinate, fan out, expire, heal, and stay up.