Cypherpunk Utopia

We build what the world needs: tools for security, privacy, anonymity, censorship resistance, and freedom.

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

Will you answer the call?

[Steve Phillips // d/acc @elimisteve]

🚨🔒🧠 CALLING ALL CYPHERPUNKS! 🧠🔒🚨

We predicted this world.

In some sense, we've been preparing for it our entire lives.

Mass surveillance. Mega corporations. Government censorship. Intelligence agencies run amok.

The NSA's spying capabilities naturally increase with Moore's Law, and their budget only grows.

The UK jails thousands of its own citizens per year for (very) mean tweets.

Tech giants and advertisers spend billions to data mine algorithmically manipulate us all into serving their ends.

Your government's leaders want you to believe they can only keep you safe if they are able to store in their database every thought you have ever communicated to another mind.

How can one possibly hope to protect the world from these escalating injustices?

Which community has the skills, the wit, and the boldness to dare defend humanity against these tech-enabled tyrants?

After 13 years of cypherpunk work, including a DEF CON talk, three international innovation awards, and designing, building, and shipping real software that protects real people, I have reached a surprising conclusion about our would-be permanent overlords:

They don't stand a chance.

"How could that be?!", you ask?

You see, our asymmetric advantages are extraordinary.

Infinite digital surveillance can be defeated by a single mixnet.

All computing power on Earth is insufficient to break but one encrypted message.

As Julian Assange once said: "Encryption is an embodiment of the laws of physics, and it does not listen to the bluster of states, even transnational surveillance dystopias. It isn't obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption."

We learned from the Snowden revelations that even the supposedly all-powerful NSA has privately deemed Tor to be "catastrophic" to its surveillance efforts.

To defend the world from centralized control and achieve cypherpunk utopia, a surprisingly small number of additional tools and technologies must be built. But they must be built correctly. Simply. Scalably. With an eye toward anonymity and usability. And soon.

Beginning in three weeks, from October 25th to November 15th, in the Andes mountains of Argentina, as a residency residing within @JoinEdgeCity's even faster-approaching event Edge City Patagonia, we will accelerate each other's progress in creating these technologies.

We will build the future we have always wanted. The future we deserve. A compelling future of freedom, ambition, decentralized power, and confused, frustrated, wannabe tyrants.

We are building a future where authoritarian whims are too slow, too shortsighted, and too localized to prevent the rise of cypherpunk utopia.

This October and November we shall create, deploy, and unveil the following open-source software:

1. An anonymous, censorship-resistant podcasting platform; so the signal cannot be stopped, and to allow anyone in the world to listen and learn without being spied upon or creepily psychologically profiled

2. The greatest secure messaging app of all time: decentralized, anonymous, quantum-resistant, optionally self-hostable; think Signal + Discord + Linear, but anonymous and Tor-native

3. An encryption app for organizing Legions, the first internet-native organizational structure. Legions are a new mechanism for large-scale human coordination that will allow the masses to peacefully organize against the elites and to create our own alternatives to the corrupt status quo; it's also a platform you can build upon, and scriptable in any programming language

4. A decentralized, scalable platform for building unstoppable apps; combines the best of web2 and web3, without the baggage

5. A highly scalable DAO for prototyping then running each new societal design we conceive of

6. A privacy-preserving AI assistant layer on top of a completely new kind of social network that is cleverly incentivized to align with its users' interests

7. [Your world-changing project; do be bold, ambitious, original, practical]

Beyond building, beta testing each other's software, resident projects receiving the support they need, and a ton of technical talks and workshops (some by you!), we will also hear from other extraordinary individuals who are fighting the good fight, and who can help us clarify and prepare for what may lie ahead. That is, we will hear from whistleblowers, journalists, persecuted activists, and defiant dissidents.

If not now, when?

If not us, who?

If not encrypted, why?

See you in Argentina.

https://t.co/VIsEHx7shS

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@Youssofal_ At full 262k context length?!

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@wafer_ai @gpuemi How does @__tinygrad__ fit into all this?

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@TencentHunyuan @grok Is this about as powerful as MiniMax 3?

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@mercury__agent That is, redirect http to https

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@mercury__agent Protip: redirect https://t.co/YNlL9UKB3N to https://t.co/EYm205uONx so users don't get an SSL error

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@Madisonkanna @oliviakoshy > Can’t count how many ladies are trickling into our party in SF tonight.

Seven.

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@sudoingX @UnslothAI But the context window can't be the full 262k due to the weights taking up almost all that VRAM, correct? Or has that now been optimized?

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@amiruci @wafer_ai would like to have a word with you, for they claim the same thing, I believe

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

The government says it’s not a “search” if your data is stored by someone else.
So they just buy it or take it. Your habits, profiles, everything. And call it legal.
The Surveillance Accountability Act ends this loophole.

[Unredacted @unredacted_org]

It's time to free the Internet.

May 19.

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

@ErikVoorhees Does Venice run any LLMs in TEEs?

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

Cypherpunks are rising to the occasion.

[Mykola Siusko 🇺🇦 @nicksvyaznoy]

Never received so many congratulations after our event as after Cypherpunk Congress. People coming in restaurant and sayibg thank you for keeping spirit alive.

This matters.

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

The recording of our big Demo Day is coming soon!

All of our residents did an incredible job, and we are proud to have played a role in accelerating their world-changing projects!🚀

[Edge City @JoinEdgeCity]

Our popup village was full of activity:

✨ a talk on meme-driven marketing
✨ @CpunkUtopia’s Demo Day
✨ @VibeResidency’s Kids Demo Day
✨ nature exploration with a geologist & biologist
✨ boardgames night
✨ DJ workshop
✨ ecstatic dance

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

See you all this Friday at 5pm for the Canary hackathon we're hosting! 🦾🔐🚀

[Steve Phillips // d/acc @elimisteve]

Cypherpunk Utopia is proud to be hosting a hackathon for Canary, a vital software tool to enable essential information to be released no matter what.

See you Friday and Saturday -- it's time to build the future we want! 😎✊🚀

[Steve Phillips // d/acc @elimisteve]

My fellow Americans: our right to dissent is being taken away.

Think about what you want, what you care about, what you truly want this country's immediate future to look like.

What would you choose if you knew that 100,000 others would rapidly join you?

Get ready to organize -- before it's too late.

[Steve Phillips // d/acc @elimisteve]

Intelligence agencies and their contractors don't just watch you, they actively work to undermine you -- often illegally -- as soon as you effective oppose their interests.

Just ask Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, or Barrett Brown.

[Cypherpunk Utopia @CpunkUtopia]

If you want situational awareness, don't just go deep, go broad.

[Ben Landau-Taylor @benlandautaylor]

The winning move is to be in 4-6 separate online bubbles with different obsessions.

[mert @mert]

it is batshit insane that so many of you are OK with the whole world seeing all of the transactions you have ever made onchain

you have literally nothing to gain from this

anything you do onchain can and will be used against you

shield your shit