Did you know? Before Bitcoin, Hal Finney was already running one of the first cypherpunk anonymous remailers and arguing that computers could "liberate and protect people" instead of control them. The cypherpunk bet was never just about money, it was that code could move power away from databases and gatekeepers. That is why privacy tools matter even when you have nothing dramatic to hide: they decide who gets leverage by default. If our devices can either watch us or shield us, who should control that choice?

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