HCPP22 | Lunarpunk panel discussion w/ Rachel-Rose O'Leary, Amir Taaki, Juraj Bednar, Pavol Luptak

Not everyone sees cryptocurrencies as a powerful liberalising tool that is unparalleled in our society. A tool that erodes the authoritarian paradigm of states and creates a new decentralised paradigm where the state no longer has a place.
Lunarpunkers recognize the need for a new decentralized paradigm that transcends the entire social order.
What prospects await lunarpunk in the near future?
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RACHEL-ROSE O'LEARY is a DarkFi core dev and writer.
As part of the forming Bitcoin community, AMIR TAAKI became an early Bitcoin developer, author of the BIP process, and the Libbitcoin implementation. With contributions to many free and open-source projects, he collaborated with Cody Wilson on launching Darkwallet and laid the foundations for OpenBazaar. Later, he spent nearly 2 years in the Rojava revolution, first for nearly 4 months fighting in the YPG and then working for the administration on economic projects. Today, Amir is focused on the DarkFi project, a network bringing anonymity to decentralized finance, and is still working towards building an agonistic revolutionary hacker movement.
JURAJ BEDNAR is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Progressbar, Paralelná Polis, and Hacktrophy. He wrote several books, his latest one being "Cryptocurrencies - hack your way to a better life". He creates on-line courses and content about privacy, crypto, and entrepreneurship.
PAVOL "WILDER" LUPTAK is a cryptoanarchist & voluntaryist focused on technology and society hacking. IT security guy, founder of IT security hacking companies (Nethemba, Hacktrophy), contemporary art (Satori), and Liberation.travel. Co-founder of Bratislava’s and Prague’s hackerspaces (Progressbar & Paralelní Polis). Member of Czech contemporary anti-government artistic group Ztohoven. Responsible for many anti-government & digital privacy projects.”
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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government, and most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary-­art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of liberty in order to shape the public discourse, and ultimately work towards a freer future.

[@HansMaxiBricks]

this’s been a long time comin but the change is gonna come. Let there be dark

[@toxictroll7843]

Why is Amir Taaki wearing a ski mask? Is it at least a Balanciage like Kanye West likes to wear? xD

[@HansMaxiBricks]

I guess Kanye was there and we just did not notice. Coz we were all wearing them masks