[{"content":"We are a distributed publication with no public physical office. Reach us by email:\neditor@cypherpunkguide.com — editorial, story tips, corrections, and named-subject disputes (Cora Aegis) privacy@cypherpunkguide.com — privacy questions and data-subject requests legal@cypherpunkguide.com — DMCA notices, legal and regulatory correspondence Encryption. For anything sensitive, please encrypt. Our PGP keys will be published on this page; until then, ask and we will share a key out of band.\nSupport our work. CypherpunkGuide is reader-funded. Bitcoin and Monero donation details will be published here. We answer to our readers, not to advertisers.\nSee our Imprint for our author-identity policy.\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/contact/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"Contact","type":"page"},{"content":"\rReclaim the power to choose what you reveal\r#\rEvery transaction, message, and movement you make is logged, correlated, and sold. CypherpunkGuide is for the person who has decided that is not acceptable — and who wants practical, tested ways to take that power back.\nWe begin with privacy, not with any single technology. Privacy is the right; the tools are how we exercise it.\nWhere to begin\r#\rOur work follows one path — privacy as the entry, Bitcoin as one of the means, sovereignty as the extension, and the cypherpunk ethic as the horizon:\nPrivacy \u0026amp; OPSEC — the foundation. Threat modeling, metadata, surveillance, and the everyday practices that shrink your attack surface. Start here, whether or not you have ever touched Bitcoin. Self-Custody — privacy made financial. Bitcoin is not our headline; it is how financial privacy and censorship resistance become real. Sovereignty — privacy extended across a whole life: communication, residency, health, and the quiet infrastructure of independence. Cypherpunk — the philosophy that ties it together, read from the primary sources rather than the slogans. How we work\r#\rEducation first. Primary sources, archived against link rot. Tools we run ourselves, with the trade-offs named and any affiliate relationship disclosed. We answer to our readers, not to advertisers — supported by transparent revenue streams: Bitcoin and Monero donations today, with a Premium subscription and editorially-aligned affiliates in time.\nRead about us →\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"CypherpunkGuide","type":"page"},{"content":"Last updated: 2 June 2026\nNot professional advice\r#\rCypherpunkGuide is educational. Nothing here is legal, financial, tax, or security advice. Consult a qualified professional before acting on anything you read here — especially decisions involving your money or your safety.\nCryptocurrency \u0026amp; self-custody risk\r#\rSelf-custody and cryptocurrency carry real risk of irreversible loss. You alone are responsible for your keys, your operational security, and your decisions. Test with small amounts first.\n\u0026ldquo;As is\u0026rdquo;\r#\rContent and tools are provided \u0026ldquo;as is\u0026rdquo;, without warranty of any kind. We are not liable for decisions you make based on our content, for third-party services we link to or mention, or for service interruptions and data loss. No system is perfectly secure; we do our best with the resources we have and commit to transparent disclosure if an incident occurs.\nOpinions, not absolutes\r#\rOur editorial positions are informed opinions, offered in good faith. Reasonable people disagree; we welcome it.\nAffiliate links\r#\rWhen we include affiliate links, we disclose them plainly, recommend only tools we use ourselves, and never let a commission alter our judgement. We run no surveillance ad networks and never sell your data — we are funded by transparent streams (donations now; a possible subscription and editorially-aligned affiliate links later). See our Privacy Policy.\nThird-party links\r#\rWe link to external resources for your convenience. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or practices. We archive what we cite (e.g. via the Wayback Machine) against link rot.\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/disclaimer/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"Disclaimer","type":"page"},{"content":"Last updated: 2 June 2026\nWho publishes this\r#\rCypherpunkGuide is an independent editorial publication written under the pseudonym Cora Aegis.\nWhy a pseudonym\r#\rWe write about operational security, surveillance resistance, and self-sovereignty. To do so under a legal name — harvested by the very data brokers we teach you to evade — would be incoherent. The pseudonym is not a gimmick; it is the first lesson, and we practise what we publish. We follow the example of peer publications that protect author identity for the same reasons.\nWhat this means\r#\rCora Aegis is a real person whose legal identity is intentionally not disclosed. We will not reveal it in response to:\nreader requests, journalist inquiries conditioned on identity disclosure, commercial requests not based on lawful KYC requirements, or hostile attempts to expose. We may comply with valid legal process (a court order or subpoena from a competent jurisdiction), after appropriate review and with reasonable effort to preserve pseudonym integrity within the limits of the law.\nHow we operate\r#\rWe are a distributed publication and keep no public physical office. The site is hosted in Switzerland and our domain registration uses WHOIS privacy by design.\nContact\r#\reditor@cypherpunkguide.com — editorial privacy@cypherpunkguide.com — privacy \u0026amp; data requests legal@cypherpunkguide.com — DMCA, legal, regulatory See also our Contact, Privacy Policy, and Terms.\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/imprint/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"Imprint \u0026 Author Identity","type":"page"},{"content":"Last updated: 2 June 2026\nPrivacy is the core of this publication, so this policy starts with what we do not do.\nWhat we refuse to do\r#\rNo surveillance advertising. No ad networks, no tracking pixels, no sponsored content. We answer to our readers, not to advertisers. No third-party trackers. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no cross-site tracking. No selling or renting your data. Ever. To anyone. No behavioural profiling and no using your data to train AI. We collect the minimum needed to operate, and we tell you exactly what that is.\nWhat we collect\r#\rVisitors. Aggregate, privacy-respecting analytics (self-hosted Plausible, cookie-less by default): page-view counts with no individual identifiers and no cross-site tracking.\nNewsletter subscribers (if you subscribe). Your email address (to deliver the newsletter) and an optional language preference. We keep only aggregate open/click counts — no long-term individual tracking.\nInteractive tools (when available). Any computations run client-side, in your browser. We do not collect your inputs or results unless you explicitly opt in to receive an emailed report — in which case we collect only your email address. A connectivity/leak test that must send a request to our resolver logs the source IP ephemerally (≤24 hours), then deletes it, retaining only country-level aggregates.\nWhy we use it\r#\rNewsletter delivery and language localisation; aggregate analytics to improve our writing (never for advertising or sales); delivering a tool report only when you ask; and meeting legal obligations where they genuinely apply.\nHow long we keep it\r#\rData minimisation throughout: newsletter data until you unsubscribe (plus a short backup window); aggregate analytics up to 24 months; resolver logs ≤24 hours (then country-level aggregates); emailed tool reports are not stored on our servers. Backups are encrypted.\nSharing\r#\rWe do not share, sell, or rent your data, with narrow exceptions: processors acting strictly on our behalf (e.g. email delivery), bound to confidentiality; and valid legal process from a competent jurisdiction, which we review and will challenge where overbroad. We never share data with ad networks, data brokers, social platforms, or AI-training providers.\nYour rights\r#\rDepending on where you live (GDPR/UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Japan\u0026rsquo;s APPI, LGPD, and others), you may have rights to access, delete, correct, port, or object to processing of your data, and to non-discrimination for exercising them. We do not sell data, so opt-out-of-sale does not apply — but we affirm it explicitly.\nTo exercise any right, email privacy@cypherpunkguide.com. We respond within the timeframe your law requires (e.g. 30 days GDPR / 45 days CCPA) and may verify your identity first. Reasonable requests are free.\nCookies\r#\rMinimal, strictly-necessary cookies only (e.g. session and an optional language preference). No advertising or tracking cookies. Plausible is cookie-less. Where we embed third-party media, we prefer privacy-respecting embeds and tell you when we cannot.\nFunding \u0026amp; affiliate links\r#\rWe answer to our readers, not to advertisers. We are supported by transparent revenue streams: Bitcoin and Monero donations today, with a possible Premium subscription and a small number of editorially-aligned affiliate links in a later phase. If and when we use affiliate links, we disclose them plainly and only recommend tools we use ourselves.\nChildren\r#\rThis site is not intended for children under 13 (under 16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect their data.\nChanges\r#\rWe may update this policy; material changes will be announced (newsletter notice and a site banner), with the \u0026ldquo;last updated\u0026rdquo; date above.\nContact\r#\rPrivacy questions and data requests: privacy@cypherpunkguide.com. We are a distributed publication and keep no public physical office. See also our Imprint.\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/privacy-policy/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"Privacy Policy","type":"page"},{"content":"Last updated: 2 June 2026\n1. Acceptance\r#\rBy using cypherpunkguide.com or subscribing to our newsletter, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.\n2. What we provide\r#\rCypherpunkGuide is an editorial publication: articles on privacy \u0026amp; OPSEC, self-custody, sovereignty, and cypherpunk philosophy. As the publication grows we may add free interactive tools and a newsletter (including a possible future Premium tier). Content is provided for information only and is not a substitute for professional legal, financial, or security advice.\n3. Your responsibilities\r#\rUse the site lawfully; do not attempt to compromise its security or scrape it abusively; do not impersonate Cora Aegis or our staff; and do not share account credentials if and when accounts exist.\n4. Editorial position\r#\rWe take clear positions: privacy as a fundamental right (after Hughes\u0026rsquo; A Cypherpunk\u0026rsquo;s Manifesto), self-custody and financial sovereignty, and critical analysis of surveillance technology and policy. These are informed opinions, not absolute truths — we welcome respectful disagreement. We may decline service to anyone engaged in harassment or hate speech.\n5. Affiliate links \u0026amp; independence\r#\rAll content is editorially independent. We do not accept sponsored content or paid placements. We are funded by transparent revenue streams (donations today; a possible subscription and editorially-aligned affiliate links later). When affiliate links appear, they are disclosed plainly and never alter our recommendations. See our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer.\n6. Authorship \u0026amp; pseudonym\r#\rCypherpunkGuide is written under the editorial pseudonym Cora Aegis. See our Imprint for the full author-identity policy.\n7. Corrections\r#\rWe correct material errors openly: a correction note on the affected article, a newsletter notice, and preservation of the original in the Wayback Machine. If you are a named subject of a case study and dispute a fact, contact editor@cypherpunkguide.com for a good-faith review.\n8. Copyright \u0026amp; DMCA\r#\rWe respect intellectual-property rights. To submit a takedown notice, email legal@cypherpunkguide.com with: the work claimed, the allegedly infringing URL, your contact details, a good-faith statement, a statement of accuracy and authority, and your signature. We respond within 14 days and may counter-notice where we believe the use is fair use, journalism, or otherwise lawful. We will not act on overbroad or bad-faith requests.\n9. Disclaimers \u0026amp; liability\r#\rContent and tools are provided \u0026ldquo;as is\u0026rdquo;, without warranty. See our full Disclaimer.\n10. Governing law\r#\rWhatever these Terms say, your local consumer-protection and data-protection laws apply (e.g. GDPR for the EU/UK, CCPA for California, APPI for Japan, LGPD for Brazil). Disputes are resolved first by good-faith negotiation, then mediation, then a competent court.\n11. Contact\r#\rEditorial: editor@cypherpunkguide.com · Privacy: privacy@cypherpunkguide.com · Legal: legal@cypherpunkguide.com\n","date":"2 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/terms/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"Terms of Service","type":"page"},{"content":"\rWhy we exist\r#\r\u0026ldquo;Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.\u0026rdquo; — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk\u0026rsquo;s Manifesto, 1993\nThree decades on, that power is harder to hold than ever. Every transaction, message, and movement is logged, correlated, and sold. CypherpunkGuide exists for the person who has decided this is not acceptable — and who wants practical, tested ways to take that power back.\nWe begin with privacy, not with any single technology. Privacy is the right; the tools are how we exercise it.\nWho is Cora Aegis\r#\rCora Aegis is the editorial voice behind this publication. The name is a pseudonym — deliberately. We write about operational security, surveillance resistance, and self-sovereignty; it would be incoherent to do so under a legal name harvested by the very data brokers we teach you to evade. The pseudonym is not a gimmick. It is the first lesson.\nOur perspective is unapologetically that of an advocate. Privacy and self-sovereignty are not abstract preferences — they are the foundation of personal dignity: the right to hold your body, your money, and your story without first asking permission.\nWhat we cover\r#\rOur work is organized around four pillars, in the order we believe they are best learned:\nPrivacy \u0026amp; OPSEC — the foundation. Threat modeling, metadata, surveillance, and the everyday practices that shrink your attack surface. This is where most readers begin, whether or not they have ever touched Bitcoin. Self-Custody — privacy made financial. Bitcoin is not our headline; it is the means by which financial privacy and censorship resistance become real. From your first hardware wallet to multisig, we treat it as a tool in service of the first pillar. Sovereignty — privacy extended across a whole life: communication, residency, health, and the quiet infrastructure of independence. Cypherpunk — the philosophy that ties it together, read from the primary sources rather than the slogans. The path runs one way: privacy as the entry, Bitcoin as one of the means, sovereignty as the extension, the cypherpunk ethic as the horizon.\nHow we work\r#\rEducation first. The large majority of what we publish is explanatory — threat models, comparisons, primary-source analysis — not product pitches. Tools we actually use. When we recommend something, we run it ourselves, we name the trade-offs, and we disclose any affiliate relationship plainly. Primary sources. We cite the manifesto, the spec, the filing — and we archive what we link, because the record rots. We practice our own OPSEC. Pseudonymous authorship, privacy-respecting hosting, no surveillance analytics, no advertising trackers. How we are funded\r#\rOur work is supported by several transparent revenue streams, and we will always tell you which is which:\nDirect donations in Bitcoin and Monero, today, through our own self-hosted payment server. A Premium subscription for readers who want more depth (planned for a later phase). Carefully chosen affiliate links to a small number of tools that already meet our editorial standards — no hype, only things we use, always disclosed. We answer to our readers, not to advertisers. That single sentence decides every editorial call we make.\nStart here\r#\rIf you are new, begin with Privacy \u0026amp; OPSEC. Everything else — including Bitcoin — makes more sense once you can see the threat you are actually defending against.\n","date":"1 June 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/about/","section":"CypherpunkGuide","summary":"","title":"About CypherpunkGuide","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.\u0026rdquo; — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk\u0026rsquo;s Manifesto, 1993\nCypherpunk is the philosophy beneath everything else here: the conviction that privacy in an open society requires not permission but tools — and that we build them ourselves.\nThis pillar reads the primary sources rather than the slogans they were flattened into.\nWhat this pillar covers\r#\rThe manifestos — Hughes (1993), Tim May\u0026rsquo;s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988), and the cryptographic lineage from Chaum onward. The ideas — why cryptography is a political technology, and what its authors actually argued. Case studies — where these ideas met the real world, and what we can learn from how that went. The horizon, not the entry\r#\rMost readers reach this pillar last, and that is by design: the philosophy lands hardest once you have practised the privacy, held your own keys, and tasted a little sovereignty. This is the horizon the other three pillars walk toward.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/cypherpunk/","section":"Cypherpunk","summary":"","title":"Cypherpunk","type":"cypherpunk"},{"content":"Privacy is not secrecy. It is the power to selectively reveal yourself to the world — and in a world that logs everything by default, holding that power takes deliberate practice.\nThis is where most readers begin, whether or not they have ever touched Bitcoin. Before any tool can help you, you need to see the threat you are actually defending against.\nWhat this pillar covers\r#\rThreat modeling — naming your adversary, your assets, and your acceptable risk, so you spend effort where it matters. Metadata \u0026amp; correlation — why what is revealed about your data often matters more than the data itself. Surveillance — how commercial and state collection actually works, from a practical rather than alarmist view. Everyday OPSEC — the small, repeatable habits that shrink your attack surface: communications, browsing, identity separation, and operational discipline. Start with the threat, not the tool\r#\rThe fastest way to waste effort on privacy is to buy tools before you understand what you are protecting. We work the other way around: model the threat, then choose the smallest set of tools that meets it.\nNew here? This is the right place to start — everything else, including Bitcoin, makes more sense once you can see the threat.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/privacy/","section":"Privacy \u0026 OPSEC","summary":"","title":"Privacy \u0026 OPSEC","type":"privacy"},{"content":"Bitcoin is not our headline. It is a means — the way financial privacy and censorship resistance become real once you have decided that privacy matters.\nSelf-custody is the practice of holding your own keys, so that no third party can freeze, surveil, or seize your money without your consent. It is the first pillar applied to your finances.\nWhat this pillar covers\r#\rHardware wallets — honest reviews of the devices we actually use, with their trade-offs named. From single-sig to multisig — graduating your security as the stakes grow. Operational practice — backups, passphrases, inheritance, and avoiding the mistakes that lose coins. Financial privacy — how custody choices shape what others can learn about you. A tool in service of the first pillar\r#\rWe treat Bitcoin the way we treat any tool: useful insofar as it serves privacy and sovereignty, not as a belief system. If you arrived for the money, you will leave understanding the privacy that makes it matter.\nNew to this? Read Privacy \u0026amp; OPSEC first — self-custody makes far more sense once you can see the threat.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/self-custody/","section":"Self-Custody","summary":"","title":"Self-Custody","type":"self-custody"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":"Sovereignty is privacy grown up — extended from your data to your whole life. It is the right to hold your body, your money, and your story without first asking permission.\nThis pillar is unapologetically an advocate\u0026rsquo;s: self-determination is not an abstract preference but the foundation of personal dignity.\nWhat this pillar covers\r#\rCommunication — owning your channels rather than renting them from surveillance platforms. Residency \u0026amp; movement — the practical geography of independence. Health \u0026amp; the body — bodily autonomy as a privacy and dignity question. Quiet infrastructure — the unglamorous systems that let a person stand on their own. From defending data to living free\r#\rThe first two pillars protect what you have. This one is about how you live: building a life whose foundations you actually control.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/sovereignty/","section":"Sovereignty","summary":"","title":"Sovereignty","type":"sovereignty"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/en/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"}]