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hbs is an Atomic Cypherpunk working on solving Monero-EVM atomic swaps to make Monero easily accessible in a permissionless and unstoppable manner.

Meet Opaque, a 32-year-old software engineer born and raised in a totalitarian country where government surveillance is pervasive and freedom of speech is tightly controlled. Growing up, Opaque witnessed the erosion of privacy and the suppression of dissenting voices, which fueled a deep-seated passion for privacy and security. 15 years ago, he emigrated to a […]

Starting programming on a C64 and Linux since 1996, I’ve always had a focus on the network side, security, and protocols, and particularly appreciate the value of P2P protocols as censorship resistance is democracy is liberty, without it whoever controls the narrative controls the votes.

Jarrad came to Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, counter-economics, & crypto-anarchy. Seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that didn’t depend on a monopoly of violence. From there, he participated in early attempts to generalise the Bitcoin […]