🖱 In the late 1980s, fears of government control over the nascent internet gave rise to the cypherpunk movement. These internet activists advocated for privacy in cyberspace. Cypherpunks perfected the cryptography technologies that today underlie cryptocurrencies and the well-known projects Tor and WikiLeaks 💻Cypherpunks viewed privacy as a basic and inalienable human right⌨️ Protecting privacy and data confidentiality is the primary motivation for cypherpunks to improve cryptography💾