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Self-Sovereign Identity: Proving Without Revealing

July 5, 2021

My illustration entitled: "The Broken Mirror of Data Extraction" - a giant corporate scanner attempts to reconstruct Herbert’s complete identity from countless fragments. Herbert raises a cryptographic shie...

CBDCs, Stablecoins and Programmable Money

September 24, 2020

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Three Rivers of Digital Money" - Three luminous rivers—CBDCs, stablecoins and Bitcoin—flow through a futuristic city. I stand at their intersection, examining who controls eac...

Against Digital Absolutism: Why Cypherpunkism Is Not Anti-State or Anti-Corporation

August 22, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Shield Against Absolutism" - I raise a luminous shield between citizens and two corrupted manifestations of power: an all-seeing surveillance state and an exploitative corpora...

The Cypherpunkism FAQ: Twenty Objections Answered

November 12, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Hydra of Misconceptions" - I confront a twenty-headed mechanical hydra whose heads symbolize recurring misconceptions: “privacy protects criminals,” “decentralization creates ...

The Cypherpunkist Test: Who Does the Technology Empower?

October 10, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Litmus Test" - I place different technologies—AI, digital currency, social platforms, biometrics and brain–computer interfaces—into a luminous testing apparatu...

The Rights and Responsibilities of the Cypherpunkist

August 8, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Shield and Key" - Herbert carries a luminous shield protecting individual rights while holding a cryptographic key that must be used responsibly. The shield di...

The Architecture of Power: A Cypherpunkist Theory of Technology

June 22, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "Rebuilding the Architecture of Power" - I use a glowing cryptographic hammer to dismantle a centralized technological fortress. Around me, citizens rebuild its components into an ...

A Genealogy of Cypherpunkism

October 21, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

From Cryptography and Distributed Networks to a Philosophy of Digital Sovereignty My illustration entitled: "The Ancestral Hall of Ideas" - I walk through a grand hall containing statues and illuminate...

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