Bordel Hackerspace at #39C3 @ccc.de

"Creating the Cypherpunk Future we'd want to live in" by @kurtopsahl.bsky.social @ ECC#2 Talk about building a future where technology serves people, rooted in cypherpunk values of privacy, freedom, and responsibility — our work doesn't end with development. parallelpolis.info/v/omRpR1-g0Z...

"Every authoritarian regime in history started by promising to protect people from "dangerous" speech. The power to censor is the power to control. Once speech is restricted, all other freedoms inevitably fall." global-free-speech.shakespeare.wtf

🧵 THREAD: What is Crypto-anarchy? 1/ Cryptoanarchy is an ideology centered on using cryptography to protect individual privacy and economic freedom. The vision: technology can create spaces where people communicate, transact, and organize outside state control.

Tree: "Why I Left AT Protocol" gist.github.com/burningtree/...

🔥 It's happening! The first pure DeFi mortgage is live, powered by PWN protocol, AAVE pools and EtherFi weETH loan.bordel.wtf @pwndao.bsky.social @aave-defi.bsky.social

1/ Just as states gradually regulated access to finance, they're now regulating access to social networks. Same pattern. Same outcome. Discord just leaked 2.1M government IDs. This is what happens when you turn convivial tools into checkpoints. 🧵

"A Return to Cypherpunk Values" by Sterlin Lujan @monerokon.org 2024 Advocating for a return to cypherpunk values over the "crypto casino" trend, the proposal includes building a "dark forest" infrastructure to safeguard freedom and unify "punk" ideals. parallelpolis.info/v/qm978gqLUG...

"Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" by @susansegfault.bsky.social A biography of Tor — a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core. #book Free PDF: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... Buy: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254818...

Be part of the creation of the new BORDEL in Prague and help us transform chaos into shared creation → bordel.wtf

They paid ~$6,5k for a ghost. The Prague domain (paralelnipolis.cz) is now a hollow AI, its physical shell finally shed. Let them have the ashes. We kept the fire. A new Parallel Polis is forged in the digital expanse. Source: x.com/SodomakCZ/st...

The darknet market maximalist – “We are concerned with preserving civil liberties and will fight tooth and nail to defend them. There will be no compromises.” antimoonboy.com/darknetmarke...

Early speakers behind Cypherpunk Congress from cryptographers to policy makers. Building anti-surveillance tools, fostering anti-big tech collab environment, promoting fresh gaze on cypherpunk culture. congress.web3privacy.info

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #2 (2025) by @web3privacy.info #devconnect 📅 November 16, 2025 📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina lu.ma/u2sw5kpv

"DarkFi: 500 Year Forest Dynasty" by Rachel Rose O'Leary @ Eth Cypherpunk Congress 2024 @web3privacy.info Forest-as-a-metaphor of shelter for communities to flourish, neo dark age, shifting power dynamics, self-defence digital tooling, anonymous coordination parallelpolis.info/v/av2KLxXZz3...

"Assembling the Cypherpunks of the Future" by @drnick.bsky.social @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2024 @web3privacy.info Talk about expanding cypherpunks desires, historical parallels, focus on privacy, cypherpunks in 2024 and challenges ahead of us. parallelpolis.info/v/AGUrqPJDr...

1/ The story of Paralelní Polis Prague is a cautionary tale about the dangers of centralization, ideological drift, and toxic leadership. What began as a beacon of cryptoanarchy and decentralization ultimately fell victim to the very systems it sought to oppose. 🧵

"Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2024 @web3privacy.info How to move from Big Tech dependency, build a sovereign stack towards socio-technical counter-positioning parallelpolis.info/v/OT1MYlona2...

"Collective self-determination" by Sam Hart @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2024 @web3privacy.info How to build solidarity economy, reach collective self-determination, and role of privacy in the realm of accountable sovereignity. parallelpolis.info/v/fSJly21Dtk...

"Corruption, KYC and the Cost of Compliance" by Jarrad Hope @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress @web3privacy.info How trillions of dollars in illicit financial flows slosh around our financial system today, facilitated by the most powerful centralized institutions. parallelpolis.info/v/kbwL-a3c3o...

"Securing internet trust & establishing Digital Human Rights" by @juanbenet.bsky.social @ Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Humanity's potential, role of the web3, policy progress, mass surveillance, necessity of the decentralized collaboration and 5-10Y projections. parallelpolis.info/v/xCpqpRIQ_sw

Start week with a cypherpunk lessons: @drnick.bsky.social x FactoryDAO at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress keynote. Cypherpunks through the history till nowadays, actual challenges and possible resistance techniques. watch: youtube.com/watch?v=AGUr... event: congress.web3privacy.info

Paralelní Polis is now on Matrix! 💬 Connect with fellow cryptoanarchists and community members at chat.paralelnipolis.info Matrix Address: "#general:pp0.co"

"Choices, Motivation, Meaning: Traversing the Time of our Lives" by Mitch Altman #HCPP24 What motivates us to do what we do? How do we find meaning in it? What drives our choices? Can we do better? What matters? Can we thrive regardless of outcomes? paralelnipolis.info/v/CbXlr0M6sC...

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 🎥 Aftermovie is out. Watch it now → youtu.be/Un3_zWjL9PA 2200+ Attendees, 51 Speakers from @torproject.org to @xychelsea.tv, same values.

ICYMI Protocol Berg will be back in 2025! What you can expect for v2: ⬩ Two days of content ⬩ June 12-13 ⬩ Free tickets ⬩ No sponsors ⬩ Multi-protocol, multi-perspective, multi-learnings CfP and ticket applications will open early next year. 🥳 protocol.berlin

"How To Hack The World (2024)" by Paul Rosenberg #HCPP24 Our decentralized, golden-rule approach isn't just about computers—it's a better way to organize society, working with human nature rather than against it. paralelnipolis.info/v/_I_vLL-mA5...

It's official! 2nd installment of Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress will happened in Nov 2025 x Devconnect. rumors: Buenos Aires. 1st Congress happened recently in Bangkok & attracted 2000 people: congress.web3privacy.info

Please welcome here @monerokon.org 👋 A technical conference in privacy and financial technology Date: 20th - 22nd June 2O25 Location: Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

How do you envision Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2025 #HCPP25?

"Playing in Hardcore Mode" by Ryan Lackey @octal.bsky.social #HCPP24 Using technology securely is challenging even with robust protections, and vulnerabilities often exist but are simply too costly to exploit – until they aren't. paralelnipolis.info/v/m5LDhMiAZg...

Disguise Bluesky traffic as something else. Use steganography to hide thousands of skeets in a cat photo. Distribute social media via airdrop or sneakernet when no direct connection is available. Make sure people can contact each other anywhere everywhere.

Kris Is published Ethereum Cypherpunk congress presentation. "3 attack vectors, 3 antidotes. Time to address our own hypocrisy" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6g...

"Without permission, with programmable cryptography" by Oskar Thoren #HCPP24 There's a war on general computation, software is eating the world and #privacy is dead. Who owns your data and what do they do with it? paralelnipolis.info/v/HmOw73tYzK...

Two weeks ago I took a #Cypherpunk & #Privacy stage of #Devcon7. It was a 5-min ride through how subcultural and social movements used visuals to spread globally. It ended with one message/proposal for those who want to make @ethereum.bsky.social cypherpunk again: app.devcon.org/schedule/ZAY...

"One does not simply try a Bitcoin app" by Martin Habovštiak #HCPP24 When writing Bitcoin applications, developers use test networks to ensure proper functionality. This talk explores these lesser-known networks and their broader value. paralelnipolis.info/v/XwE1jYUevx...

Collected basic stats behind Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress feat from @vitalik.ca & @drnick.bsky.social to Roger Dingledine [Tor co-founder] & @kurtopsahl.bsky.social. congress.web3privacy.info It was our biggest event: from attendance to positive feedback.

"What are we even doing here?" by Florian Glatz @heckerhut.bsky.social #HCPP24 Crypto was built on a web of trust by like-minded nerds. Today, we don't recognize the field anymore: it's been coopted by lizard-brains and their zero-sum money games.. paralelnipolis.info/v/oFRvY5NcUL...

"DarkFi Anonymous Apps: Chat, DAOs, Swaps, Payments" by Amir Taaki #HCPP24 paralelnipolis.info/v/ouq68bBp_d...

"Illusion of Choice" by Amin Rafiee #HCPP24 Examination of limited consumer choices in technology, digital platforms, and society, connecting to themes of freedom, privacy, and cryptocurrency adoption across borders. paralelnipolis.info/v/yFprpxPtyw...

"Economic DAO Governance: A Contestable Control Approach" by Jeff Strnad #HCPP24 A new form of DAO governance that uses a sequential auction mechanism to overcome entrenched control issues by creating a regime of temporary contestable control. paralelnipolis.info/v/NksJf8s0Vv...

Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands. www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/wh...

"Musings on our successes and failures" by Exiledsurfer #HCPP24 Michael does his yearly wrap-up of the pulse of the community. paralelnipolis.info/v/qfTP27e481...

"Refuse, Resist with FOSS and Heavy Metal" by Бого #HCPP24 Thanks to the Internet, humanity is changing. Let's explore how crowds can transform centralized systems and then see how FOSS can create large-scale positive impact. paralelnipolis.info/v/6EH_J8rlG9...

"How to fix the Internet - Nostr, Reticulum and other ideas" by Juraj Bednár #HCPP24 The internet is broken. We want free stuff, so we are the product. The datacenters are not free. Intermediaries control and can delete our online existence. But ways exists. paralelnipolis.info/v/TFasLWSk-r...

"What to do with your phone number in the 21st century?" by Michal Kodnar #HCPP24 Phone numbers are as retro today as FAX or disco parties. But what can be done with them in an age where people other than hipsters or steampunkers use them? paralelnipolis.info/v/QWaHpp70_F...