Amplified Cypherpunk Congress in Buenos Aires:
4500 people
100 speakers from @eff.org to @freedom.press.
90% of registrations to turnover.
Exclusive partnership & project announcement from mixnets to cypherpunk silicon chips.
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In 2025 we
Co-facilitated Cypherpunk Retreat cypherpunk.camp - 3 days of unconference with 100 curated tech leaders from academia & digital rights tech @archive.org, @brave.com, @torproject.org, @ethereum.foundation, Harvard University, @bsky.app & more.
Big news! @protocollabs.bsky.social activated membership x Web3privacy now for 2026.
Members are our trusted companions. Instead of one-time collaboration for events or projects, we strive for ongoing partnerships that create lasting impact.
Think of Cypherpunk as an imaginative take on the internet & life itself. We can learn from previous generation & thinkers like @kurtopsahl.bsky.social x @fil.org - analyse accomplishments and challenges, create own new approaches to freedom tech.
Cypherpunk Congress: youtube.com/watch?v=KxGF...
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Read books written by our speakers.
🌟"Open swords software" essay by @wassimulacrum.bsky.social x @aksiomaorg.bsky.social
✨"Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares [@plutopress.bsky.social]
🔥"Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social [@repeaterbooks.bsky.social]
3 years of privacy activism.
15.000 of event visitors, 800 contributors from @torproject.org to @eff.org, millions of protected people.
Free, independent & open-minded,
Web3Privacy now.
Weekend watch: Brewster Kahle from Internet Archive on How to take back our history, memory & community.
Watch now: archive.org/details/wer...
First speakers: @1s4.bsky.social, @danny.spesh.com, @kurtopsahl.bsky.social, @mossy.bsky.social, @ghappour.bsky.social, @jaromil.bsky.social, @scbuergel.bsky.social, @valkenburgh.bsky.social & many others.
Our Flagship event for 2026 - Cypherpunk Congress: 5000 people gathering for internet of freedoms x together with visionaries from @torproject.org, @brave.com, @fil.org, @ethereum.foundation, @human.tech, @dyneorg.bsky.social, @snowstormnet.bsky.social.
Solidarity: congress.web3privacy.info
Neo-cypherpunk stands for fresh take on digital activism rooted in solidarity, positive empowerment, acceptance of newcomers, communal care, and open-minded approach to intersections between tech + social component.
Our location is an incredible Funkhaus - it was built in the early 1950s as the DDR's broadcasting headquarters, designed by Franz Ehrlich, a Bauhaus-trained architect and communist who had been imprisoned in Buchenwald for his antifascist activity.
the first batch of speakers: @jaromil.bsky.social, @juanbenet.bsky.social, @heckerhut.bsky.social, @brettscott.bsky.social, @robin.berjon.com, Calle / bitchat, @tbsocialist.bsky.social, @ariskomporozos.bsky.social, Will Scott / Filecoin Foundation, Mario Havel / Ethereum Foundation & many others.
Our next big Neocypherpunk Summit is coming to Berlin - full day of global hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers & policy-makers.
web: s26ber.web3privacy.info
This talk isn’t about cryptography it’s about boundaries, relationships, and building tech that respects both.
Why Privacy Starts with Consent Not Code
@tessa.germnetwork.com, writer turned founder of @germnetwork.com on how she went from teaching at Stanford to building a private messenger that puts consent at the center of online communication.
Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/0KzYtw0py4M
@tessa.germnetwork.com this
Article: About the trade-offs inherent in open networks by
@kissane.myatproto.social : www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...
Movie: "Sneakers".
It’s the 30th anniversary of this film and it turns out that many people have, foolishly, still not seen it.
#congressrecommends
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Explore Cypherpunk Congress expert recommendations: @evacide.bsky.social x @eff.org
Books:
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black
"Your Face Belongs to U"s by @kashhill.bsky.social
"The Hank Show" by @mckenziefunk.com
Apps: I’ve also had fun playing around with @germnetwork.com recently.
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Special personal stack is here: Roger Dingledine x co-founder @torproject.org
feat
@signal.org, @debian.bsky.social , @torproject.org, pdfLaTeX, Nvim, Evince etc
Empower yourself: stacks.web3privacy.info/stacks/roger...
5. Fellowship by @protocollabs.bsky.social unlocked,
Privacy Stewars of Ethereum supported, & we amplify with our resources.
Well done.
Collaboration in practice
1. @juanbenet.bsky.social spoken at Cypherpunk Congress #1.
2. @protocollabs.bsky.social became member of @web3privacy.info
3. Together we made Cypherpunk Retreat cypherpunk.camp
4. Alpeh_v participated in retreat & came out with Stablecoin privacy.
Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in numbers - the biggest within Devconnect.
Privacy is a celebration of new internet imaginaries.
Joy: congress.web3privacy.info
RSVP: luma.com/u2sw5kpv
Excited to have @ooni.org with us 🤍
OONI ensures a free and open internet by increasing transparency of internet #censorship around the world.
Since 2012 they are working alongside hundreds of non-profit and NGOs worldwide, and supported by @torproject.org, @mozilla.org...
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Milestone unlocked: 2000 individuals registered for our Cypherpunk Congress!
It's the biggest cypherpunk + digital rights event organised by grassroots collective.
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Thrilled to partner with World Ethical Data Foundation - independent non-profit working on the ethical and practical issues of data, emerging technologies and their impact on societies worldwide.
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"Ethereum was built open by default. Now it’s time to make it private by design"
In this Academy talk Andy Guzman, PSE lead at @ethereum.foundation explains how Ethereum is evolving toward seamless, user-friendly privacy.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwv...
Happy monday aka the Web3Privacy Now newsletter day!
While peers at @mullvad.bsky.social can enjoy this week's spotlight as their VPN scores highest in newest test, according to @wired.com, Universe Browser makes rounds for opposite reasons.
Read about it here: news.web3privacy.info/2025-44/
Transfered all our 103 videos to @archive.org
Enjoy world of cypherpunk, free software, decentralisation, philosophy, deGoogle, & knowledge: archive.org/details/@web...
Pegasus, NSO group, @citizenlab.ca, Catalangate.
Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress lineup is growing - welcome
Joan Arus leading www.sentinelalliance.org
Focus on open-source developers protection, investigative journalists & activists from mercenary spyware.
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