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Not sure if my memory is faulty on this one, quick search didnt turn anything up.

Didn't some of the cypherpunks move out to anguila to avoid the crypto export bans during the first crypto wars?

That's a real bold move, climate-wise. It's an island whose highest point is about 200 feet (65 metres) above sea level, and it's smack-dab in the middle of the hurricane highway...

Yes, to answer my own question like an adult, some did!

Vince Cate moved there to work on export-banned crypto, renouncing his citizenship and would start an ISP on the island after the banks rejected his electronic money ideas. This could have been PayPal in another timeline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate

the e-Gold people met there on an occasion, and Robert Hettinga and MIT researcher Rafael Hirschfield started the International Conference on Financial Cryptography in Anguila. https://news.ai/ref/crypto98.html

So not in droves but it was a place, as it were.

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