By CCN: The man who claims to be Bitcoin’s inventor wants to rewrite history by erasing the cryptocurrency’s cypherpunk past. Writing in yet another blistering blog post, Craig Wright claimed he left the cypherpunk movement in the 1990s after growing tired of the antics of Julian Assange. Craig Wright: I Couldn’t Stand Julian Assange Wikipedia offers the basic definition of a cypherpunk as: “Any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.” According to Craig Wright, Bitcoin was never supposed to be about anything of the sort. He says he
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