We also have a variety of goals. We all share
a commitment to spreading crypto beyond the elites, but for
a wide variety of reasons. Some of us (Tim May, myself, etc.)
are libertarians who want government out of our
lives, others are liberals fighting the NSA, others
find it great fun to ding people in power with cool hacks,
and still others are in it for the variety of opportunities
crypto-anarchy opens up for making "filthy lucre". -Nick Szabo, Cypherpunk email list.

Lots of those looking to make that filthy lucre in bitcoin these days.