‘Economics Will No Longer Be the Handmaiden of Politics’: A History of the Cypherpunks, Feat. Jim Epstein

An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement.

Nov 4, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. UTC

Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 10:27 a.m. UTC

An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.

Jim Epstein is the executive editor of ReasonTV podcasts, and the producer of the recent documentary “Cypherpunks Write Code.”

In this conversation, he gives NLW a behind the scenes look on the interviews and conversations that went into the documentary, including how the cypherpunks started, schisms in the movement, and how the movement lives on today.

Watch “Cypherpunks Write Code”

Find Jim Epstein online:
twitter.com/jimepstein

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