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Cypherpunks
Tim May is one of the founders of the libertarian cypherpunks movement - a group of people in the 1990s who were fascinated by the potential of cryptography, and laid the foundations for the creation of Bitcoin.
(The bitcoin website shown on the laptop of a shop selling vinyl records that accepts bitcoins in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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