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“At the end of February, hoping to escape the chaos of America’s cryptography regulations, developers from corporations representing the cryptography business have gathered in Anguilla, in the Caribbean Sea. The Financial Cryptography Conference.
This island, which does not levy taxes on corporations is willing to lend a hand to the Cypherpunks and those companies in the cryptography business.
The Cypherpunks that have already arrived greet Sameer and his friends. They’ve all been asked to come by Cypherpunks member Vince Cate, a resident of the island.
Three years ago Vince left America’s west coast to move here, a place without any internet service. At that time he had a plan in mind.
Anguilla is a small island with a population of only 9000.
A tourism industry which depends on resort customers from America and the sale of commemorative stamps are Anguilla’s primary sources of income. However revenue from tourism is sluggish compared to other islands in the area.
After arriving here the first thing Vince did was to preach to the Anguillan government about how wonderful the internet was. And in the end, even though the island was poor it was wired for the Internet.”
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Ah, that guy! I learnt about Vince Cate from this old Japanese documentary, “Crypto Wars” from 1997:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc&t=48m00s
(In Japanese, enable subtitles with the [cc] button.)
“At the end of February, hoping to escape the chaos of America’s cryptography regulations, developers from corporations representing the cryptography business have gathered in Anguilla, in the Caribbean Sea. The Financial Cryptography Conference.
This island, which does not levy taxes on corporations is willing to lend a hand to the Cypherpunks and those companies in the cryptography business.
The Cypherpunks that have already arrived greet Sameer and his friends. They’ve all been asked to come by Cypherpunks member Vince Cate, a resident of the island.
Three years ago Vince left America’s west coast to move here, a place without any internet service. At that time he had a plan in mind.
Anguilla is a small island with a population of only 9000. A tourism industry which depends on resort customers from America and the sale of commemorative stamps are Anguilla’s primary sources of income. However revenue from tourism is sluggish compared to other islands in the area.
After arriving here the first thing Vince did was to preach to the Anguillan government about how wonderful the internet was. And in the end, even though the island was poor it was wired for the Internet.”