Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead at 67

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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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