https://reason.com/blog/2018/12/16/tim-may-influential-writer-on-crypto-ana
By Jim Epstein
Reason.com
Dec. 16, 2018
Tim May, co-founder of the influential Cypherpunks mailing list and a
significant influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks, passed away last week
at his home in Corralitos, California. The news was announced Saturday on
a Facebook post written by his friend Lucky Green.
In his influential 1988 essay, "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto," May
predicted that advances in computer technology would eventually allow
"individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other"
anonymously and without government intrusion. "These developments will
alter completely the nature of government regulation [and] the ability to
tax and control economic interactions," he wrote.
A deeply private person, May's aversion to outside intrusions defined his
philosophical outlook. "'Leave me alone,'" he wrote, is "at the root of
libertarianism more so than formal theories about the nature of man."
"My political philosophy is keep your hands off my stuff....Out of my
files, out of my office, off what I eat, drink, and smoke," he once told
journalist Andy Greenberg.
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