# The Heterarchy Society

> A community around sovereign technologies, decentralized systems and non-hierarchical forms of organization.

## About

The Heterarchy Society is a community focused on sovereign technologies, parallel structures, and non-hierarchical forms of organization. This site collects writing, talks, a glossary, books, events, and people related to heterarchy, decentralization, cryptography, and adjacent topics. The content is open data, published under free licenses, and maintained collaboratively on git.

## Sections

- [Glossary](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary): Definitions of 161 key concepts — heterarchy, cypherpunk, agorism, and more
- [Books](https://heterarchy.fyi/books): Recommended reading list — 68 books
- [Writings](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings): Essays, articles, and texts — 5 entries
- [Talks](https://heterarchy.fyi/talks): Talks and presentations — 835 entries
- [Events](https://heterarchy.fyi/events): Past and upcoming events — 154 entries
- [People](https://heterarchy.fyi/people): Community members and referenced people — 301 entries
- [About](https://heterarchy.fyi/about): Manifesto and background
- [Open Data](https://heterarchy.fyi/open-data): Machine-readable JSON datasets for all collections

## Glossary (161 terms)

- [Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/2fa): Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a security process that requires users to provide two distinct forms of identification to access resources, data, or systems.
- [Agorism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/agorism): Agorism is a libertarian political philosophy founded by Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) that promotes the creation of a voluntary society through counter-economics and peaceful revolution against the state.
- [Air Gap](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/air-gap): An air gap is a physical security measure that isolates a computer or network from all external connections — no internet, no local network, no wireless interfaces.
- [Alternative Education Systems](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/alternative-education-systems): Alternative Education Systems refer to educational approaches that differ from traditional, standardized schooling methods by employing diverse pedagogical philosophies and learning environments.
- [Anarchism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/anarchism): Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates for self-governed societies based on voluntary associations.
- [Anarchocapitalism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/anarchocapitalism): Anarchocapitalism is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the elimination of the state in favor of individual sovereignty, private property, and free markets.
- [Anonymity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/anonymity): Anonymity is the condition of acting without any identifier — pseudonymous or otherwise — that can be tied back to a person across interactions.
- [Anonymous Communication](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/anonymous-communication): Anonymous communication refers to methods and technologies that enable people to exchange information while concealing their identities and protecting their privacy.
- [Appropriate Technology](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/appropriate-technology): Appropriate technology is the family of design approaches that selects tools and techniques to match the human, ecological, and economic context in which they will be used, rather than imposing capital-intensive industrial solutions on every problem.
- [Assassination Politics](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/assassination-politics): Assassination Politics is a controversial concept proposed by crypto-anarchist [Jim Bell](people:jim-bell) in a 1995-96 essay series that describes a system for anonymously crowdfunding political assassinations using cryptography and digital cash.
- [Backdoor](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/backdoor): A backdoor is a deliberately hidden access mechanism in software, hardware, or a cryptographic system that bypasses standard authentication and allows unauthorized entry.
- [Biohacking](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/biohacking): Biohacking is the broad DIY movement focused on understanding and improving human biology through interventions that range from diet, supplements, and wearable sensors to genetic experimentation and subdermal implants.
- [Biopunk](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/biopunk): Biopunk is the cultural and political offshoot of cyberpunk that takes biological technology — genetic engineering, synthetic biology, citizen science — as its central object rather than computers and networks.
- [Bitcoin](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/bitcoin): Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, introduced in 2009 by an anonymous entity known as [Satoshi Nakamoto](people:satoshi-nakamoto).
- [BitTorrent](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/bittorrent): BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocol for file sharing that enables users to distribute and share data in a decentralized manner.
- [Blockchain](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/blockchain): Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that enables secure, transparent, and tamper-resistant record-keeping without the need for a central authority.
- [Byzantine Generals Problem](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/byzantine-generals-problem): The Byzantine Generals Problem is a fundamental concept in distributed systems that illustrates the challenges of reaching consensus among multiple parties who need to agree on a single strategy, while some participants may be unreliable or malicious.
- [Canary File](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/canary-file): A canary file (or warrant canary) is a method used by service providers to indirectly inform their users that they have not received any secret government subpoenas or warrants for user data.
- [Censorship Resistance](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/censorship-resistance): Censorship resistance is a fundamental property of decentralized networks that prevents any entity, whether governments, corporations, or individuals, from altering, blocking, or controlling transactions and information flow within the system.
- [Chilling Effect](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/chilling-effect): A chilling effect is the suppression of legitimate behaviour — speech, association, inquiry, dissent — caused not by direct prohibition but by fear of potential consequences.
- [Circular Economy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/circular-economy): The circular economy is an economic model designed around continuous reuse rather than disposal: products are designed for repair, components are recovered and re-fed into manufacturing, materials cycle through multiple lives rather than ending in landfill.
- [Citizen Science](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/citizen-science): Citizen science is research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateurs and unpaid volunteers — people without formal scientific credentials contributing observations, analyses, and sometimes whole research programmes outside the institutional framework of universities, corporations, and state laboratories.
- [Clipper Chip](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/clipper-chip): The Clipper Chip was a hardware encryption device proposed by the U.S.
- [Consensus Mechanism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/consensus-mechanism): A consensus mechanism is a fault-tolerant protocol used in blockchain systems and distributed computing to achieve agreement on a single data value or state of the network among distributed processes or multi-agent systems.
- [Consent](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/consent): Consent is the voluntary, informed agreement of an individual to participate in an action, relationship, or system.
- [Conviviality](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/conviviality): Conviviality is [Ivan Illich](people:ivan-illich)'s name for the quality of tools and institutions that enhance individual capability rather than replace it.
- [Counter-economics](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/counter-economics): Counter-economics is a philosophical and practical approach to economic activity that operates outside state control, developed by Samuel Edward Konkin III as part of his theory of Agorism.
- [Counterproductive Institutions](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/counterproductive-institutions): Counterproductive institutions are organisations that, over time, come to actively undermine the purposes they were founded to serve.
- [Counterproductivity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/counterproductivity): Counterproductivity is what happens when a tool or system, past a certain scale, begins producing the opposite of what it was built for.
- [Creative Commons](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/creative-commons): Creative Commons is a nonprofit organisation founded in 2001 by [Lawrence Lessig](people:lawrence-lessig), Hal Abelson, and others to publish a suite of standardised, machine-readable copyright licences that authors can apply to their work to grant some rights to the public by default.
- [Crypto-discourse](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/crypto-discourse): Crypto-discourse refers to the unique communication patterns, language, and modes of discussion that have emerged within the cryptocurrency and blockchain communities.
- [Crypto Wars](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/crypto-wars): The Crypto Wars refers to the ongoing political and legal battles between governments (particularly the United States) and advocates of strong encryption, centered around attempts to restrict or control public access to cryptographic technologies.
- [Crypto Anarchist Manifesto](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cryptoanarchists-manifesto): The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto is a seminal document written by [Timothy C.
- [Cryptoanarchy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cryptoanarchy): Cryptoanarchy is a political philosophy and technological movement that advocates for the use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies to advance individual liberty, economic freedom, and political autonomy.
- [Cryptocurrency](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cryptocurrency): Cryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies that use cryptography for security, operating on decentralized networks based on blockchain technology.
- [Cryptographic Voting Systems](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cryptographic-voting-systems): Cryptographic voting systems are advanced electronic voting solutions that use cryptography to ensure secure, verifiable, and transparent democratic processes.
- [Cryptography](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cryptography): Cryptography is the science and practice of securing communication and information through the use of codes, ciphers, and other methods of encryption.
- [Cyberpunk](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cyberpunk): Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that emerged in the 1980s, characterised by its focus on "high tech, low life" — a combination of advanced technology and societal breakdown.
- [Cyborgism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cyborgism): Cyborgism represents the integration of technology with human biology and consciousness, embracing the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines.
- [Cyphernomicon](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cyphernomicon): The Cyphernomicon is a comprehensive document written by [Timothy C.
- [Cypherpunk](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cypherpunk): Cypherpunk is a political and social movement that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s, advocating for the use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means to achieve social and political change.
- [Cypherpunk's Manifesto](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/cypherpunks-manifesto): The Cypherpunk's Manifesto is a foundational document written by [Eric Hughes](people:eric-hughes) in 1993 that outlines the core principles and philosophy of the cypherpunk movement.
- [Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/dao): A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is a novel form of organizational structure that operates without traditional hierarchical management, instead using blockchain technology and smart contracts to enable collective decision-making and automated execution of rules.
- [Decentralized Applications (dApps)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/dapps): Decentralized Applications (dApps) are software applications that run on peer-to-peer networks rather than centralized servers, eliminating single points of control and failure.
- [Darknet](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/darknet): A darknet is an overlay network within the Internet that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, often using non-standard communication protocols and ports.
- [Dead Drop](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/dead-drop): A dead drop is a method of passing information between two parties without direct contact, by leaving material at a pre-arranged location for the other party to retrieve later.
- [Decentralization](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/decentralization): Decentralization is the process of distributing power, control, and functions away from central authorities to a network of individual participants.
- [Decentralized Finance (DeFi)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/defi): Decentralized Finance (DeFi) refers to an emerging financial technology based on secure distributed ledgers similar to those used by cryptocurrencies.
- [Distributed Hash Table](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/dht): A distributed hash table (DHT) is a lookup system that spreads a key–value store across a network of nodes with no central index.
- [Digital Autonomy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-autonomy): Digital autonomy refers to the ability of individuals, organizations, or nations to maintain independence and control over their digital technologies, data, and infrastructure.
- [Digital Commons](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-commons): A digital commons is a shared resource — code, knowledge, data, infrastructure — that is collectively produced and maintained, governed by community norms rather than enclosed by property rights.
- [Digital Fabrication](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-fabrication): Digital fabrication is the family of manufacturing techniques in which a physical object is produced directly from a digital design file, without the long tooling and setup cycles of traditional industrial methods.
- [Digital Freedom](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-freedom): Digital Freedom refers to the fundamental rights and liberties of individuals in the digital realm, encompassing the ability to access, use, create, and publish digital media while maintaining privacy and autonomy.
- [Digital Identity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-identity): Digital identity is a set of attributes and claims that represent an entity in digital environments, enabling authentication and interaction without revealing unnecessary personal information.
- [Digital Rights](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-rights): Digital rights are the extension of fundamental civil and human rights — free expression, privacy, freedom of association, due process — into networked digital environments.
- [Digital Self-Defense](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-self-defense): Digital Self-Defense refers to the practices and techniques individuals use to protect their digital privacy, security, and personal information in the face of increasing online threats and surveillance.
- [Digital Signature](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/digital-signature): Digital signatures are cryptographic proofs that enable message authentication, integrity verification, and non-repudiation without relying on trusted third parties.
- [Distributed Manufacturing](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/distributed-manufacturing): Distributed manufacturing is a production model in which goods are made close to where they will be used, through a network of small, geographically dispersed facilities connected by information technology.
- [Double-spending problem](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/double-spending-problem): The double-spending problem refers to the potential flaw in digital currency systems where the same digital token or coin could be spent more than once.
- [End-to-end encryption (E2EE)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/e2ee): End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages, preventing third parties – including telecom providers, internet providers, and even the application service provider itself – from accessing the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt the conversation.
- [Encryption](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/encryption): Encryption is the process of encoding information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it.
- [Epistemic Autonomy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/epistemic-autonomy): Epistemic autonomy is the capacity and right of individuals to form their own beliefs through their own reasoning, rather than deferring to authorities, institutions, or algorithmic systems that pre-filter what information they encounter.
- [Ethereum](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/ethereum): Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform launched in 2015 by [Vitalik Buterin](people:vitalik-buterin) and other co-founders that enables the creation and execution of smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps).
- [Exit and Voice](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/exit-and-voice): Exit and Voice are the two fundamental strategies available to individuals dissatisfied with an organization, institution, or system.
- [Extropianism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/extropianism): Extropianism is a transhumanist philosophy developed by Max More in the late 1980s, centered on the concept of "extropy" — the opposite of entropy — defined as the capacity for growth, intelligence, order, and vitality.
- [Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/foss): Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) refers to software that is released under licenses that grant users the fundamental freedoms to run, study, modify, and distribute the software.
- [Free Market](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/free-market): Free market refer to an economic system in which prices for goods and services are determined by open competition between privately owned businesses, without significant government intervention or regulation.
- [Fungibility](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/fungibility): Fungibility is the property of an asset whose individual units are interchangeable and indistinguishable from one another.
- [Game Theory](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/game-theory): Game theory is the mathematical study of strategic decision-making between rational actors, providing a framework for understanding how incentives shape behavior in decentralized systems.
- [Gray Man Strategy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/gray-man): The gray man strategy is a discipline of being unremarkable.
- [Hackerspace](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/hackerspace): A hackerspace (also known as a hackspace or makerspace) is a community-operated physical workspace where people with common interests in technology, digital art, science, and DIY culture can meet, socialize, collaborate, and work on projects.
- [Hacktivism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/hacktivism): Hacktivism combines hacking with activism, using digital tools and computer networks to promote political ideals, freedom of speech, and human rights.
- [Heterarchy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/heterarchy): Heterarchy is a form of organization where relationships and authority shift based on context rather than following a single fixed chain of command.
- [Homomorphic Encryption](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/homomorphic-encryption): Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is a revolutionary form of cryptography that allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted data without requiring decryption first.
- [Human Augmentation](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/human-augmentation): Human Augmentation refers to the development and application of technologies that aim to enhance human physical, cognitive, and sensory capabilities beyond their natural limitations.
- [Inalienability](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/inalienability): Inalienability is the property of certain rights — most centrally the right to one's own person — that cannot be validly transferred, waived, or sold even with the full consent of the person involved.
- [Information Asymmetry](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/information-asymmetry): Information asymmetry exists when one party in a transaction or relationship has significantly more or better information than another.
- [Information Ethics](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/information-ethics): Information Ethics is a branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society.
- [IPFS](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/ipfs): IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer protocol for storing and retrieving content by its cryptographic hash rather than by its location.
- [Iron Law of Oligarchy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/iron-law-of-oligarchy): The Iron Law of Oligarchy is the claim that every organisation tends toward control by a small group as it grows, regardless of the values it was founded on.
- [Libertarianism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/libertarianism): Libertarianism is a political philosophy that places individual liberty as its core principle, advocating for the maximization of personal freedom and voluntary cooperation while opposing the initiation of force against individuals and their property.
- [Lightning Network](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/lightning-network): The Lightning Network is a payment protocol layered on top of Bitcoin that allows participants to send transactions to each other off-chain through a mesh of cryptographically secured payment channels, settling the net result to the base chain only when needed.
- [Lunarpunk](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/lunarpunk): Lunarpunk is an emerging philosophical and aesthetic movement that builds upon the foundations of cyberpunk and solarpunk, with a focus on privacy, anonymity, and resilience in a world of ubiquitous surveillance.
- [Machine Learning](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/machine-learning): Machine Learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on developing systems that can learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.
- [Maker Culture](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/maker-culture): Maker culture is the contemporary continuation of the DIY tradition, organised around the belief that making things — electronics, machines, software, garments, food — is a basic form of agency rather than a hobbyist's leisure.
- [Mass surveillance](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/mass-surveillance): Mass surveillance refers to the widespread, often covert monitoring of large populations' communications, movements, and activities by governments, corporations, or other entities.
- [Mesh Networks](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/mesh-networks): Mesh networks are decentralized communication systems where each device (node) in the network connects to multiple other nodes, creating redundant paths for data transmission.
- [Mixnet](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/mixnet): A mixnet (mix network) is a routing protocol that uses a chain of proxy servers, called mix nodes, to obscure the correspondence between the messages that go in and the messages that come out, thereby providing anonymous communication.
- [Monero](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/monero): Monero is a cryptocurrency designed from the outset to make transaction graphs unreadable.
- [Mutual Aid](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/mutual-aid): Mutual aid is the practice of voluntarily sharing resources, labour, and risk within a community of people who recognise their interdependence — not as charity from above but as reciprocal exchange among equals.
- [Mutualism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/mutualism): Mutualism is a political and economic philosophy holding that a just society is one of free exchange between equals, without the exploitation enabled by either state power or concentrated private capital.
- [Non-Aggression Principle (NAP)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/nap): The Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) is a fundamental ethical principle that states that no one may threaten or commit violence ("aggress") against another person's life, body, or property.
- [Network State](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/network-state): A network state is a community that begins online — bound by a shared purpose, moral code, or set of practices — and gradually crystallises into physical territory and recognised sovereignty.
- [Neurotechnology](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/neurotechnology): Neurotechnology is an interdisciplinary field that combines neuroscience with technological innovation to develop systems that can interact directly with the nervous system.
- [Non-Fungible Token (NFT)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/nft): A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier recorded on a blockchain that certifies the ownership and authenticity of a specific digital asset.
- [Nootropics](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/nootropics): Nootropics, also known as "smart drugs" or "cognitive enhancers," are natural, semisynthetic, or synthetic compounds that aim to improve cognitive function, particularly executive functions, memory, creativity, or motivation in healthy individuals.
- [Nostr](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/nostr): Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for censorship-resistant social communication, designed by the pseudonymous developer fiatjaf in 2020.
- [Off-Grid Living](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/off-grid-living): Off-grid living refers to a lifestyle characterized by independence from centralized utilities and systems.
- [Onion Routing](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/onion-routing): Onion Routing is a technique for anonymous communication over computer networks.
- [Open Hardware](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/open-hardware): Open Hardware (OSHW) refers to physical artefacts whose design has been released so that anyone can study, modify, manufacture, and sell devices built on it.
- [Open Source](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/open-source): Open source is a development and distribution model in which the source materials — code, designs, data, or knowledge — are made publicly available for anyone to inspect, modify, and build upon.
- [Operational Security (OpSec)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/opsec): Operations Security (OpSec) is a systematic process and set of practices designed to protect critical information and prevent potential adversaries from gaining access to sensitive data or operations.
- [Peer-to-peer (P2P)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/p2p): Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a distributed network architecture where participants (peers) share resources directly with each other without requiring central coordination.
- [Panopticon](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/panopticon): The panopticon is a prison design proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 in which a single guard in a central tower can observe every inmate, without the inmates being able to tell when they are being watched.
- [Paralelní Polis](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/paralelni-polis-essay): "Paralelní Polis" (Parallel Polis) is an influential essay written by Czech philosopher and political dissident [Václav Benda](people:vaclav-benda) in 1978.
- [Parallel Society](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/parallel-society): A parallel society is a set of institutions, networks, and practices that operate alongside — and independently of — the dominant political and economic order.
- [Permaculture](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/permaculture): Permaculture is a design methodology for human settlements and food systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecosystems — perennial polycultures, closed nutrient cycles, mutually supporting species.
- [Permissionless](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/permissionless): A system is permissionless when participation in it does not require approval from any gatekeeper.
- [PGP](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/pgp): PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is the encryption and signing tool written by [Phil Zimmermann](people:phil-zimmermann) in 1991 that put strong cryptography in the hands of ordinary users for the first time.
- [Piracy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/piracy): Piracy, in the digital context, refers to the unauthorized copying, distribution, or use of copyrighted digital content such as software, music, movies, books, and other media.
- [Plausible deniability](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/plausible-deniability): Plausible deniability is a concept in which individuals or organizations can deny knowledge of or responsibility for some actions without direct lies or deceit, usually because of a lack of evidence that confirms their participation.
- [Polycentric Law](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/polycentric-law): Polycentric law is a system in which multiple competing legal frameworks operate simultaneously within the same territory, with individuals choosing which one governs their disputes and agreements rather than being subject to a single state monopoly on law.
- [Post-State Governance Models](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/post-state-governance-models): Post-State Governance Models refer to alternative systems of social and political organization that aim to transcend traditional nation-state structures through decentralized, networked, and often technology-enabled forms of governance.
- [Prediction Markets](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/prediction-markets): Prediction markets are platforms where users can trade on the outcomes of future events, effectively creating a market-based forecasting system.
- [Privacy Coins](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/privacy-coins): Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies designed so that transaction details — amounts, senders, recipients, or all three — are concealed from the public ledger by cryptographic construction rather than by convention.
- [Privacy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/privacy): Privacy is the right of an individual or group to control information about themselves and determine when, how, and to what extent this information is communicated to others.
- [Proof of Stake (PoS)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/proof-of-stake): Proof of Stake (PoS) is a consensus mechanism used in blockchain networks to validate transactions and create new blocks.
- [Proof of Work (PoW)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/proof-of-work): Proof of Work (PoW) is a consensus mechanism and spam prevention system first developed to combat email spam and later adapted for use in cryptocurrencies, most notably Bitcoin.
- [Pseudonymity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/pseudonymity): Pseudonymity is a state of operating under a pseudonym (a fake name or identifier) while maintaining a consistent identity over time.
- [Public Key Cryptography](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/public-key-cryptography): Public Key Cryptography, also known as asymmetric cryptography, is a cryptographic system that uses pairs of keys: public keys which may be disseminated widely, and private keys which are known only to the owner.
- [Quantified Self](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/quantified-self): The Quantified Self is the practice and informal movement of tracking personal data — sleep, heart rate, mood, productivity, biomarkers, glucose, location — as a tool for self-understanding and behaviour change.
- [Radical Monopoly](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/radical-monopoly): A radical monopoly exists when a single institutional form crowds out all other ways of meeting a need — not just other producers of the same kind, but the possibility of meeting the need outside that kind altogether.
- [Resonant Computing](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/resonant-computing): Resonant Computing is a 2025 declaration and emerging movement arguing for technology designed to "speak to our deeper values" rather than to exploit attention.
- [Samizdat](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/samizdat): Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, literally "self-publishing") was a mode of clandestine text reproduction and distribution that sustained dissident culture in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- [Satoshi Nakamoto](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/satoshi-nakamoto): Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin who published the [Bitcoin whitepaper](writings:bitcoin-whitepaper) in 2008 and launched the Bitcoin network in 2009.
- [Schelling Point](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/schelling-point): A Schelling point — also called a focal point — is a solution that people converge on naturally when they cannot communicate, because it seems obvious, special, or salient given shared context.
- [Seasteading](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/seasteading): Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, particularly floating cities in international waters that operate with significant autonomy from existing nations.
- [Secure communication](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/secure-communication): Secure communication refers to the practice of exchanging information between parties in a way that prevents unauthorized access, interception, or tampering.
- [Self-Custody](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/self-custody): Self-custody is the practice of holding the private keys to one's own digital assets directly, rather than delegating that responsibility to a custodian — an exchange, a bank, or any other third party.
- [Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/self-sovereign-identity): Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a concept and approach to digital identity management that gives individuals complete control over their personal information and how it's shared.
- [Self-Sovereignty](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/self-sovereignty): Self-sovereignty is a concept that emphasizes individual control and ownership over one's identity and personal data without relying on centralized third-party authorities.
- [Shadow library](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/shadow-library): A shadow library is an online database or digital archive that provides free access to academic papers, books, and other content that is typically behind paywalls or otherwise restricted.
- [Technological Singularity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/singularity): The technological singularity is a hypothetical future point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and begins recursively improving itself — designing smarter systems, which design smarter systems still — at a pace that rapidly becomes incomprehensible to unaugmented humans.
- [Smart Contract](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/smart-contract): A smart contract is a self-executing computer program that runs on a blockchain network, automatically enforcing and executing the terms of an agreement between parties without the need for intermediaries.
- [Solarpunk](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/solarpunk): Solarpunk is both a cultural movement and artistic aesthetic that envisions an optimistic future where humanity has successfully addressed climate change and created sustainable, equitable societies through the thoughtful application of renewable technologies, particularly solar power.
- [Sousveillance](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/sousveillance): Sousveillance is the recording and monitoring of authority figures and institutions by private individuals — the inversion of mass surveillance.
- [Sovereign Individual](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/sovereign-individual): [The Sovereign Individual](books:sovereign-individual) is the 1997 book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, and the thesis it argues: information technology will dissolve the nation-state's monopoly on the most consequential aspects of life.
- [Spontaneous Order](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/spontaneous-order): Spontaneous order is the large-scale coherence that arises from many local actions following simple rules, without any central designer intending the result.
- [Steganography](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/steganography): Steganography is the practice of concealing information within other non-secret data or carriers in a way that prevents the detection of hidden messages.
- [Stigmergy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/stigmergy): Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination in which the trace left by an action in some shared medium stimulates the next action — by the same agent or by another.
- [Subsidiarity](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/subsidiarity): Subsidiarity is the principle that decisions should be taken at the lowest level competent to take them, and that higher levels of authority intervene only to assist lower ones, never to absorb their functions.
- [Surveillance Capitalism](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/surveillance-capitalism): Surveillance capitalism is the term coined by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff for an economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sale.
- [Sybil Attack](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/sybil-attack): A Sybil attack subverts a decentralised network by creating a large number of fake identities, allowing a single actor to gain disproportionate influence over the system.
- [Tax Avoidance](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/tax-avoidance): Tax avoidance refers to the legal practice of arranging one's financial affairs to minimize tax liability within the bounds of the law.
- [Technological Sovereignty](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/technological-sovereignty): Technological sovereignty is the capacity of an individual, community, or polity to choose, understand, modify, and replace the technologies it depends on, rather than accept what is offered by a small number of upstream vendors.
- [Commons-based peer production](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/the-commons): Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler to describe a model of socio-economic production in which groups of individuals cooperate with each other to produce shared resources without traditional hierarchical organization.
- [Tor](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/tor): Tor, short for "The Onion Router", is a free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication.
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/transhumanism): Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as pattern recognition, decision-making, and natural language processing.
- [Transparency](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/transparency): Transparency is the property of an institution or system whose internal workings — decisions, data flows, finances, code — are observable by those affected by them.
- [Trustless](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/trustless): "Trustless" is the slightly misleading term of art for systems whose correctness does not depend on trusting any particular party.
- [Underground Art and Culture](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/underground-art-and-culture): Underground Art and Culture refers to creative and cultural expressions that exist outside mainstream institutional frameworks, often emerging from marginalized communities or those who deliberately choose to operate independently of commercial and established cultural systems.
- [Unix Philosophy](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/unix-philosophy): The Unix Philosophy is a set of design principles for software articulated by Doug McIlroy and colleagues at Bell Labs in the late 1960s and codified in 1978.
- [Unschooling](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/unschooling): Unschooling is an educational approach in which children direct their own learning rather than following a set curriculum, with adults acting as collaborators and resource-providers rather than instructors.
- [Vernacular](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/vernacular): Vernacular, in [Ivan Illich](people:ivan-illich)'s later writing, names everything people do for themselves outside both market and state — subsistence, mutual aid, gift, the daily practices nobody pays for and nobody administers.
- [Voluntary Association](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/voluntary-association): Voluntary association is the principle that legitimate social and economic cooperation arises only from the free choice of individuals who agree to participate, without coercion, fraud, or threat of violence.
- [Virtual Private Network (VPN)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/vpn): A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a technology that encrypts internet traffic and routes it through remote servers, hiding the user's real IP address and geographic location from network surveillance.
- [Web of Trust](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/web-of-trust): A web of trust is a decentralised model for establishing the authenticity of cryptographic keys without relying on a central certificate authority.
- [Web3](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/web3): Web3 is a loose umbrella term for the vision of a web whose infrastructure — identity, payments, storage, compute, governance — runs on permissionless blockchains and peer-to-peer protocols rather than on the proprietary platforms that dominate Web 2.0.
- [Whistleblowing](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/whistleblowing): Whistleblowing is the act of exposing information about wrongdoing, unethical behavior, or illegal activities within an organization to internal authorities or the public.
- [WikiLeaks](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/wikileaks): WikiLeaks is a publishing organisation founded in 2006 by [Julian Assange](people:julian-assange) and a small group of activists and technologists, specialised in releasing classified, censored, or otherwise restricted documents of public interest.
- [Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)](https://heterarchy.fyi/glossary/zero-knowledge-proof): A zero-knowledge proof is a cryptographic method that enables one party (the prover) to prove to another party (the verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement itself.

## Writings

- [Building Freedom Without Gatekeepers](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings/freedom-without-gatekeepers) (Josiah Warren, 2026)
- [The Fall of Democracy (and What Comes After)](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings/fall-of-democracy) (Josiah Warren, 2025)
- [What Happened to the Spirit of Freedom?](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings/spirit-of-freedom) (Josiah Warren, 2025)
- [The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings/ethereum-cypherpunk-manifesto) (pcaversaccio, 2024)
- [Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle](https://heterarchy.fyi/writings/lunarpunk-dark-side-of-the-cycle) (lunar-mining, 2022)

## Books

- [The Praxeology of Privacy](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/praxeology-of-privacy) (Max Hillebrand, 2026): The state cannot steal what it cannot see. A synthesis of Austrian economics and cypherpunk cryptography — why privacy m
- [Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/vanishing-culture) (Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, Juliya Ziskina, 2026): Zpráva o ohrožení veřejného přístupu ke kulturnímu dědictví v digitální době — streamovací platformy, dočasné licence, m
- [Chasing Shadows](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/chasing-shadows) (Ronald J. Deibert, 2025): A real-life spy thriller documenting the Citizen Lab's investigations into cyber espionage — how authoritarian regimes e
- [Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/enshittification) (Cory Doctorow, 2025): Proč internet zhoršuje služby, jakmile nás platformy zamknou — a jak je zase rozebrat. Doctorow mapuje enshittifikaci od
- [Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/farewell-to-westphalia) (Jarrad Hope, Peter Ludlow, 2025): What comes after the 400-year-old nation-state system? The book explores what may succeed nation states — from cyberstat
- [Platform Brutality: Closing Down Internet Toxicity](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/platform-brutality) (Geert Lovink, 2025): Social media no longer just distracts — it wounds. Lovink zkoumá, jak se digitální prostory staly místy toxicity a násil
- [Absolute Essentials of Ethereum](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/absolute-essentials-of-ethereum) (Paul Dylan-Ennis, 2024): Stručný průvodce ekosystémem Etherea — od základů blockchainu přes chytré kontrakty až po současné aplikace, Web3 a fint
- [Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/algorithms-of-resistance) (Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré, 2024): Jak pracovníci platforem, tvůrci a aktivisté obracejí algoritmy proti moci, která je řídí. Bonini a Treré ukazují každod
- [Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/extreme-privacy) (Michael Bazzell, 2024): Michael Bazzell has helped hundreds of celebrities, billionaires, and everyday citizens disappear completely from public
- [Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/means-of-control) (Byron Tau, 2024): You are being surveilled right now. An exposé of how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and a
- [The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/the-genesis-book) (Aaron van Wirdum, 2024): [[Bitcoin|bitcoin]] se neobjevil z ničeho nic. Van Wirdum mapuje dekády počítačových vědců, privacy aktivistů a heterodo
- [Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/tor-collier) (Ben Collier, 2024): A cultural and technological history of Tor — from the US Navy's Naval Research Lab and the Cypherpunks to activists on
- [Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/blockchain-radicals) (Joshua Dávila, 2023): Jak kapitalismus ovládl krypto — a jak ho vzít zpět. Dávila zkoumá cestu od WikiLeaks přes DeFi a dělnické kooperativy a
- [Agorism in the 21st Century #1](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/agorism-21st-century) (DarkFi (ed.), 2022): Filozofický žurnál zkoumající agorismus a kryptoekonomi. Eseje o meme coinech, NFT, DeFi, DAO a zero-knowledge kryptogra
- [Cypherpunk Ethics: Radical Ethics for the Digital Age](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/cypherpunk-ethics) (Patrick D. Anderson, 2022): Explores the moral worldview of the [[cypherpunks|cypherpunk]] — a movement that advocates strong [[cryptography]] to de
- [The Network State](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/network-state) (Balaji Srinivasan, 2022): How to start a new country.
- [Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/stuck-on-the-platform) (Geert Lovink, 2022): We're all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Wha
- [Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/tracers-in-the-dark) (Andy Greenberg, 2022): From [Andy Greenberg](people:andy-greenberg), author of Sandworm: investigators who cracked the [[Bitcoin|bitcoin]] [[bl
- [The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/dawn-of-everything) (David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021): Antropologická demolice mýtu, že hierarchie je nevyhnutelná. Graeber a Wengrow ukazují, že lidé po tisíce let vědomě exp
- [The Alignment Problem](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/alignment-problem) (Brian Christian, 2020): Machine Learning and Human Values. How do we ensure the systems we build actually do what we intend?
- [The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/infinite-machine) (Camila Russo, 2020): The true story of Ethereum's rise — from Vitalik Buterin's vision of a world supercomputer through the project's chaotic
- [Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/working-in-public) (Nadia Eghbal, 2020): Jak open source skutečně funguje — ne jako romantický komunismus, ale jako komplexní ekosystém s různými modely správy,
- [Permanent Record](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/permanent-record) (Edward Snowden, 2019): [Edward Snowden](people:edward-snowden) zevnitř popisuje globální sledovací aparát NSA — jak funguje, proč ho odhalil a
- [The Age of Surveillance Capitalism](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/surveillance-capitalism) (Shoshana Zuboff, 2019): Behaviorální data jako surovina pro předpověď a modifikaci lidského jednání. Zuboff popisuje vznik nové ekonomické logik
- [Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/psychopolitics) (Byung-Chul Han, 2017): Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche.
- [Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/seasteading) (Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman, 2017): Kanonická kniha seasteadingového hnutí — vize plovoucích měst jako laboratoří nových forem vládnutí, technologií, ekolog
- [The Internet of Money](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/internet-of-money) (Andreas Antonopoulos, 2016): Sbírka přednášek o [[Bitcoinu|bitcoin]] a otevřených blockchainech — ne technický manuál,
- [Weapons of Math Destruction](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/weapons-of-math-destruction) (Cathy O'Neil, 2016): Jak algoritmy fungují jako nástroje moci — neprůhledné, samonaplňující a systematicky poškozující ty nejzranitelnější. O
- [Anarchokapitalismus](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/anarchokapitalismus) (Urza, 2015): První česká kniha o anarchokapitalismu — od vzácných zdrojů a cen přes peníze, školství a zdravotnictví až po soudnictví
- [Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/dark-matters) (Simone Browne, 2015): Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and r
- [Reinventing Organizations](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/reinventing-organizations) (Frederic Laloux, 2014): Jak fungují organizace bez šéfů, popisů práce a rozpočtů. Laloux mapuje vznik nového paradigmatu řízení — samospráva, ce
- [Superintelligence](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/superintelligence) (Nick Bostrom, 2014): Paths, Dangers, Strategies. What happens when machines surpass human intelligence, and how do we navigate the transition
- [The Forest Passage](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/forest-passage) (Ernst Jünger, 2013): Ernst Jünger explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent thinker can withstand and oppose the power of t
- [The Problem of Political Authority](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/problem-of-political-authority) (Michael Huemer, 2013): Moderní filozofická demolice státní autority — proč žádná vláda nemá legitimní právo vládnout a proč ji posloucháme stej
- [This Machine Kills Secrets](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/this-machine-kills-secrets) (Andy Greenberg, 2012): WikiLeaks, [[cypherpunks|cypherpunk]] a genealogie radikální transparentnosti — jak se nápad z [Crypto Anarchist Manifes
- [Property, Freedom, and Society](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/property-freedom-society) (Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2009): Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
- [Against Intellectual Property](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/against-intellectual-property) (Stephan Kinsella, 2008): Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright?
- [The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/public-domain) (James Boyle, 2008): Jak se copyright rozrůstá a ničí kulturní commons. Boyle analyzuje "druhé ohrazování" — privatizaci idejí, která ohrožuj
- [A Lodging of Wayfaring Men](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/lodging-wayfaring-men) (Paul Rosenberg, 2007): A novel that explores freedom-seekers building a [[parallel-society]] on the Internet — [[cypherpunk]]-adjacent fiction
- [The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/starfish-and-spider) (Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom, 2006): Proč decentralizované organizace přežívají útoky, které by zničily centralizované. Brafman a Beckstrom mapují logiku lea
- [The Singularity Is Near](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/singularity-is-near) (Ray Kurzweil, 2005): When Humans Transcend Biology. A deep dive into exponential technological growth and the coming merger of human and mach
- [Understanding Institutional Diversity](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/understanding-institutional-diversity) (Elinor Ostrom, 2005): Ostrom presents the IAD framework for analyzing how institutions form and govern collective action — from common-pool re
- [Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/free-culture) (Lawrence Lessig, 2004): Jak mediální giganti pomocí práva a technologie uzavírají kulturu — a proč je to katastrofa pro kreativitu. Lessig, zakl
- [Free Software, Free Society](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/free-software-free-society) (Richard Stallman, 2002): Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
- [Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/copyrights-and-copywrongs) (Siva Vaidhyanathan, 2001): Historie toho, jak copyright byl unesen průmyslem — od Marka Twaina přes Disney až po digitální věk. Vaidhyanathan ukazu
- [Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-pirate-utopias) (Peter Ludlow, 2001): Antologie textů o rané internetové politice, [[kryptoanarchii|cryptoanarchy]], digitálních jurisdikcích a pirátských uto
- [Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/crypto-levy) (Steven Levy, 2001): Definitivní historie [[kryptowars|crypto-wars]] — jak hrstka matematiků, hackerů a libertariánů porazila NSA a vládní mo
- [Democracy: The God That Failed](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/democracy-god-that-failed) (Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2001): Proč je demokracie horší než monarchie — a proč je anarcho-kapitalismus lepší než oboje. Hoppe srovnává časové preferenc
- [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/cathedral-bazaar) (Eric S. Raymond, 1999): Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Eseje o otevřeném vývoji a decentralizované spolupráci.
- [The Sovereign Individual](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/sovereign-individual) (James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, 1997): Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. Klasická teze o tom, jak digitální technologie mění vztah jednotlivce a
- [Applied Cryptography](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/applied-cryptography) (Bruce Schneier, 1996): Technická bible kryptografie — protokoly, algoritmy a zdrojový kód v C. Druhé vydání, které se stalo standardní referenc
- [T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/taz) (Hakim Bey, 1991): Pirátské utopie, autonomní zóny a poetický terorismus — Hakim Bey definuje TAZ jako dočasný prostor svobody mimo dosah s
- [Governing the Commons](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/governing-the-commons) (Elinor Ostrom, 1990): Jak komunity spravují sdílené zdroje bez státu ani trhu. Ostrom bourá Hardinovu "tragédii obecní půdy" empirickými důkaz
- [Finite and Infinite Games](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/finite-infinite-games) (James P. Carse, 1986): A vision of life as play and possibility.
- [The Ethics of Liberty](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/ethics-of-liberty) (Murray Rothbard, 1982): Filozofický základ anarcho-kapitalismu — přirozené právo, vlastnictví a legitimita násilí. Rothbard buduje etický systém
- [The Word for World is Forest](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/word-for-world-is-forest) (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1976): Novela o kolonializmu a násilí na cizí planetě — když mírový národ Athšanů povstane proti lidským dobyvatelům, zkoumá Le
- [Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis — The Expropriation of Health](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/medical-nemesis) (Ivan Illich, 1975): Profesionalizace medicíny ničí schopnost lidí pečovat o sebe navzájem. Stejná logika jako v Tools for Conviviality — apl
- [The Dispossessed](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/dispossessed) (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974): Anarchistická utopie versus kapitalismus — nejpolitičtější SF román všech dob. Fyzik Shevek pendluje mezi dvěma světy a
- [For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/for-a-new-liberty) (Murray Rothbard, 1973): Anarcho-kapitalistický manifest — systematická obhajoba absolutní individuální svobody a dobrovolné společnosti bez stát
- [Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/small-is-beautiful) (E.F. Schumacher, 1973): Ekonomika v lidském měřítku — proti gigantismu průmyslu a státu. Schumacher argumentuje, že malé, decentralizované struk
- [Tools for Conviviality](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/tools-for-conviviality) (Ivan Illich, 1973): Nástroje, které přesáhnou určitý práh složitosti, ničí autonomii a vytvářejí závislost na institucích. Illich definuje "
- [Deschooling Society](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/deschooling-society) (Ivan Illich, 1971): Povinná školní docházka jako institucionální kolonizace učení. Illich navrhuje "vzdělávací sítě" — decentralizované vrst
- [Man, Economy, and State](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/man-economy-state) (Murray Rothbard, 1962): Rothbardova systematická rekonstrukce ekonomické teorie z praxeologických základů — od individuálního jednání přes trhy
- [Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/endurance-shackleton) (Alfred Lansing, 1959): A tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas — a story of lead
- [Atlas Shrugged](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/atlas-shrugged) (Ayn Rand, 1957): Román, v němž průmyslníci, vynálezci a myslitelé jeden po druhém mizí ze světa — až se ukáže, že jde o organizovanou stá
- [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/1984) (George Orwell, 1949): Totalitní stát jako dokonalý stroj na výrobu souhlasu. Big Brother, doublethink, newspeak — Orwellův slovník se stal jaz
- [Human Action](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/human-action) (Ludwig von Mises, 1949): Monumentální obhajoba ekonomie volného trhu a praxeologie — vědy o lidském jednání. Mises buduje celou ekonomickou teori
- [Animal Farm](https://heterarchy.fyi/books/animal-farm) (George Orwell, 1945): Alegorická novela o revoluci, která zradí sama sebe. Zvířata svrhnou farmáře a postaví vlastní společnost — dokud se nov

## People

- [Orkun Mahar Kilic](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/0xorkun): Orkun is the CEO & Co-Founder of Chainway Labs.
- [Aaron Feickert](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/aaron-feickert)
- [Adam Back](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/adam-back): Dr. Adam Back is the inventor of hashcash (used in Bitcoin mining) and co-founder and CEO of Blockstream.
- [Adam Burns](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/adam-burns): free2air, Dyne
- [Adam Kaleb Ernest](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/adam-kaleb-ernest)
- [Adolfo Linares](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/adolfo-linares)
- [Adrian Brink](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/adrian-brink): Co-founder Namada, Anoma
- [Afri Schoedon](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/afri)
- [Ahmed Ghappour](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ahmed-ghappour): Flashbots
- [AJ Santos](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ajs): Assistant Professor of Private International Law, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University; Contributor, Monero Konferenco and Monero Policy Working Group.
- [Alena Vránová](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/alena-vranova)
- [Alessandro Longo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/alessandro-longo): Reincantamento
- [Alexa Martinez](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/alexa-martinez): Sex educator and researcher, focusing on love & relationships in the new millennia
- [Alexander Bard](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/alexander-bard)
- [Alexandra Moxin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/alexandra-moxin)
- [Ameen Soleimani](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ameen-soleimani)
- [Amin Rafiee](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/amin-rafiee)
- [Amir Taaki](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/amir-taaki): DarkFi
- [Andrea Leiter](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/andrea-leiter): Amsterdam Center for International Law
- [Andrea Togni](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/andrea-togni): Privacy Researcher Monero
- [Andreas Antonopoulos](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/andreas-antonopoulos): Bitcoin educator, author, and open blockchain advocate
- [Andy Greenberg](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/andy-greenberg): WIRED senior writer and cybersecurity journalist
- [Ariel Gabizon](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ariel-gabizon): Chief scientist at Aztec network
- [Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/aris-komporozos-athanasiou): UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies
- [Arno Pfefferling](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/arno-pfefferling)
- [Arto Bendiken](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/arto-bendiken): Cryptoanarchist and aspiring cryptotribalist
- [Arturo Filastò](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/arturo-filasto): OONI
- [Ayn Rand](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ayn-rand): Novelist and philosopher
- [Balaji Srinivasan](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/balaji-srinivasan): Entrepreneur and author of The Network State
- [Beth McCarthy](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/beth-mccarthy)
- [Binji](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/binji): Ethereum Foundation
- [Bob Summerwill](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/bob-summerwill): Bob Summerwill is the Executive Director of the ETC Cooperative.
- [Bradley Clark Royes](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/bradley-clark-royes): Foresight Institute
- [Brett Scott](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/brett-scott): Author
- [Brewster Kahle](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/brewster-kahle)
- [Cade Diehm](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/cade-diehm): New Design Congress
- [Calle](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/calle): Bitchat, Cashu
- [Cameron Colby Thomson](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/cameron-colby-thomson): Human Rights Foundation
- [Camila Ramos Garzon](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/camila-ramos-garzon)
- [Camila Russo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/camila-russo): Financial journalist and founder of The Defiant
- [Caroline Paulick-Thiel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/caroline-paulick-thiel): Politics for Tomorrow
- [Charles Hill](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/charles-hill)
- [Chris Beams](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/chris-beams): Developer, Bisq P2P crypto-fiat exchange and DAO
- [Chris Hobcroft](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/chris-hobcroft)
- [Christian Lewe](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/christian-lewe): Christian is a researcher at Blockstream, where he mainly work on Simplicity.
- [Christoph Jentzsch](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/christoph-jentzsch)
- [Christopher Goes](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/christopher-goes): Co-Founder of Anoma
- [Cody Wilson](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/cody-wilson)
- [Coinmandeer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/coinmandeer)
- [Cory Doctorow](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/cory-doctorow): Author, activist, and special advisor to EFF
- [Costanza Gallo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/costanza-gallo): Swarm
- [Dani](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/dani-saturn)
- [Daniel Calderon](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/daniel-calderon): Independent Researcher
- [Daniel Luca](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/daniel-luca): Tech VC Eden Block
- [Daniel Lumi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/daniel-lumi)
- [Daniela Brozzoni](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/daniela-brozzoni)
- [Danny Holland](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/danny-holland)
- [Darko](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/darko): Sovereignty & privacy
- [Dave Stann](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/dave-stann): Privacy maximalist
- [David Chaum](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/david-chaum): Cryptographer and inventor of digital cash
- [David D. Friedman](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/david-friedman)
- [David Hemmerle](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/david-hemmerle): Economic philosopher and researcher
- [DCBuilder](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/dcbuilder)
- [Dominik Stroukal](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/dominik-stroukal)
- [Douglas Rushkoff](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/douglas-rushkoff)
- [Nick Almond](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/dr-nick): Jito
- [Edward Snowden](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/edward-snowden): Whistleblower and privacy advocate
- [Eleftherios](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/eleftherios): Radicle, Drips
- [Eléonore Blanc](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/eleonore-blanc)
- [Elinor Ostrom](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/elinor-ostrom): Political economist, Nobel laureate
- [Elsirion](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/elsirion): Cryptoanarchist
- [Eric Hughes](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/eric-hughes): Cypherpunk and author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
- [Eric Lombrozo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/eric-lombrozo): Cofounder and CEO of Ciphrex, Bitcoin developer
- [Eslem Demirel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/eslem-demirel): No Tech for Apartheid
- [Exiledsurfer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/exiledsurfer): Open resourcerer
- [Fatemeh Fannizadeh](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/fatemeh-fannizadeh)
- [Federico](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/federico)
- [Federico Kunze Küllmer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/federico-kunze-kullmer): Founder & Director Evmos
- [Filip Dvořák](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/filip-dvorak): AI Scientist & Entrepreneur
- [Florian Glatz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/florian-glatz): Freedom Browser, EUCI
- [Riccardo Spagni](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/fluffy-pony)
- [Frank Braun](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/frank-braun): Cryptoanarchist and cypherpunk
- [Frank Rieger](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/frank-rieger): Hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author
- [František Vrábel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/frantisek-vrabel)
- [Frantisek Weyda](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/frantisek-weyda): Entomolog, fotograf mikrokosmu, umělec a popularizátor vědy
- [Franzi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/franzi)
- [Frederic Laloux](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/frederic-laloux): Organizational innovator and author
- [Friedrich Hayek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/friedrich-hayek): Economist and Nobel laureate
- [Gavin Wood](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/gavin-wood): Founded Polkadot, Kusama, Ethereum, Parity, Web3 Foundation
- [Geert Lovink](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/geert-lovink): Media theorist and net critic
- [George Orwell](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/george-orwell): Writer and essayist
- [Giacomo Zucco](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/giacomo-zucco): Theoretical Physicist, former Technology Consultant for Accenture spa, serial entrepreneur in the field of emerging technologies.
- [Guillaume Ballet](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/guillaume-ballet): go-ethereum core dev at the Ethereum Foundation
- [Martin Habovštiak](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/habo): voluntaryist, open source contributor, programmer
- [Hal Finney](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/hal-finney): Cypherpunk and early Bitcoin developer
- [Hans-Hermann Hoppe](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/hans-hermann-hoppe): Libertarian philosopher and economist
- [Harry Halpin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/harry-halpin): CEO of NYM
- [Ido Kaiser](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ido-kaiser): Cypherpunk, security researcher and open source developer - Particl
- [Inbar Preiss](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/inbar-preiss): Writer, journalist, SalamTalk co-founder
- [Isabela Fernandes](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/isabela-fernandes): Tor
- [Ivan Illich](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ivan-illich): Philosopher and social critic
- [Jake Hartnell](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jake-hartnell): Layer
- [Jakub Hamata](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jakub-hamata): Co-founder of Parallel Garden
- [Jakub Jedlinský](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jakub-jedlinsky)
- [Jan Hubík](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jan-hubik): Former Supervisory Board Member of PP Prague and Institute of Cryptoanarchy
- [Janine](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/janine): privacy researcher & investigative journalist focused on Bitcoin and (counter)surveillance
- [Jaromil Roio](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jaromil): Dyne
- [Jarrad Hope](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jarrad-hope): Logos
- [Jasper Philipp Kalwies](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jasper-kalwies): Anarcho-capitalist, entrepreneur and organizer of the largest libertarian conference in Germany
- [Jaya Klara Brekke](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jaya-klara-brekke): Nym
- [Jensei](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jensei)
- [Jessica Solce](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jessica-solce)
- [Jim Bell](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jim-bell): James Dalton Bell, 59 years ago.
- [Jimmy Song](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jimmy-song)
- [Jindřich Karásek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jindrich-karasek): Senior Cyber Threat Researcher working for Trend Micro
- [Jiří Horáček](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jiri-horacek): Deputy director for RαD, National Institute of Mental Health & Professor of Psychiatry, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
- [Jiří Materna](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jiri-materna): Head of research at Seznam.cz
- [Dr Joachim Schwerin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/joachim-schwerin): Principal economist
- [Joerg Platzer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/joerg-platzer): Hacktivist, founding member of the Crypto Economics Consulting Group.
- [John Perry Barlow](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/john-perry-barlow): Poet, EFF co-founder, and cyberspace rights advocate
- [Josef Gattermayer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josef-gattermayer)
- [Josef Jelačič](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josef-jelacic)
- [Josef Šíma](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josef-sima): President of CEVRO Institute and Director of its international PPE MA program
- [Josef Šlerka](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josef-slerka)
- [Josef Tětek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josef-tetek)
- [Joshua Dávila](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/joshua-davila): The Blockchain Socialist
- [Josiah Warren](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/josiah-warren): Logos Press Engine contributor
- [Juan Benet](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/juan-benet): Obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology -- Protocol Labs, IPFS, Filecoin
- [Julia Tourianski](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/julia-tourianski)
- [Julian Assange](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/julian-assange): Publisher, programmer, and WikiLeaks founder
- [Julio Linares](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/julio-linares): Author, Poetic Technologies
- [Juraj Bednár](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/juraj-bednar): Educator & cryptoanarchist
- [Juraj Karpiš](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/juraj-karpis)
- [Justin Smith](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/justin-smith): Cryptofinance technologist, CEO of XMR Systems
- [JW Weatherman](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/jw-weatherman): Security expert, author of the Bitcoin Threat Model
- [Kai Landre](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kai-landre): cyborg musician who can hear the universe
- [Kassandra](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kassandra): Kohaku
- [Kate Stapleton](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kate-stapleton): Fhenix
- [Ketominer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ketominer): Full-stack builder
- [Kieran Mesquita](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kieran-mesquita)
- [Kilian Rausch](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kilian-rausch): Product Anarchist
- [Kristian Csepcsar](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kristian-csepcsar): Kristian is a Bitcoin miner & Chief of Propaganda at Braiins – a company building tools for bitcoin miners including pool, firmware, proxy, monitoring, Stratum V2, and more.
- [Kristov Atlas](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kristov-atlas): Security Consultant, Privacy Researcher, Crypto-currency Auditor and Bitcoin Speaker
- [Katka](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kx)
- [Kyle Den Hartog](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/kyle-den-hartog): Brave
- [Laura Lotti](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/laura-lotti): Other Internet Research Institute
- [Laurenz Sachenbacher](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/laurenz-sachenbacher): Data Workers’ Inquiry
- [Lawrence Lessig](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/lawrence-lessig): Legal scholar and founder of Creative Commons
- [Lea Petras](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/lea-petras)
- [Lefteris Karapetsas](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/lefteris-karapetsas): rotki
- [Leona Hioki](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/leona-hioki): Founder Intmax
- [Li Zhao Schoolland](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/li-zhao-schoolland): Director of External Relations—Asia Pacific for the Acton Institute and the Founder of TFT Events
- [Liam Eagen](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/liam-eagen)
- [Liora](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/liora): Cryptoanarchist and Researcher
- [Liz Steininger](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/liz-steininger): Least Authority, Private Storage
- [Luis Cuende](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/luis-cuende)
- [Luke 'Kayaba' Parker](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/luke-kayaba-parker)
- [Rachel-Rose O’Leary](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/lunar-mining): DarkFi
- [Lyn Ulbricht](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/lyn-ulbricht): Aktivistka za svobodu internetu a matka zakladatele freemarketu Silk Road Rosse Ulbrichta
- [Manel de Aquas](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/manel-de-aquas)
- [Manu Alzuru](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/manu-alzuru): Core of Blockravers
- [Marek Tuszynski](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/marek-tuszynski): Tactical Tech
- [Marina Markezic](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/marina-markezic): EUCI
- [Mário Havel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/mario-havel): Ethereum Foundation
- [Mark Nadal](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/mark-nadal): GUN Founder
- [Markéta Dolejšová](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/marketa-dolejsova): Design Researcher
- [Martin Leskovjan](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/martin-leskovjan)
- [Martin Matejka](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/martin-matejka)
- [Martin Šíp](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/martin-sip)
- [Martin Tremčinský](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/martin-tremcinsky)
- [Mate Soos](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/mate-soos): Argot Collective
- [Matej Held](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/matej-held): White market agorist, educator and gamer, CEO of Hemisféra
- [Matthew Hodgson](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/matthew-hodgson): project lead matrix.org | CEO/CTO Element
- [Matthias Kirschner](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/matthias-kirschner): President of Free Software Foundation Europe
- [Matthias Tarasiewicz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/matthias-tarasiewicz)
- [Max Hampshire](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/max-hampshire): Nym
- [Max Hillebrand](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/max-hillebrand)
- [Max Keidun](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/max-keidun)
- [Maxim Orlovsky](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/maxim-orlovsky): Maxim is a transhumanist and cypherpunk performing scientific, engineering, and business activities.
- [Michael Laufer](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michael-laufer)
- [Michael Schloh von Bennewitz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michael-schloh)
- [Michal A. Valasek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michal-a-valasek): Bard of code
- [Michal Paal](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michal-paal): CTO at DIGMIA
- [Michal Postránecký](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michal-postranecky): Autonomous Architect and Urbanist
- [Michal Zatřepálek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michal-zatrepalek): Co-founder of Parallel Garden
- [Michalis Kargakis](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/michalis-kargakis): Michalis has some years of experience in the software industry, mainly as a sofware engineer but also as a public speaker in various tech conferences.
- [Migle Rakitaite](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/migle-rakitaite): Swarm Foundation, WinPrivacy
- [Mitch Altman](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/mitch-altman): Mitch is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as a featured speaker at hacker conferences, as an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops.
- [Ml_sudo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ml-sudo): Electric Coin Co.
- [Murray Rothbard](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/murray-rothbard): Economist and libertarian theorist
- [Mustafa Al-Bassam](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/musalbas): Mustafa is a co-founder at Celestia, a modular data availability network.
- [Mykola Siusko](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/mykola-siusko)
- [Naomi Brockwell](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/naomi-brockwell): Founder of Ludlow Institute
- [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/nassim-nicholas-taleb)
- [Nick Middleton](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/nick-middleton): Nick works, teaches and communicates on a wide variety of geographical issues for a broad range of audiences, from policy-makers to five-year-old children.
- [Nick Szabo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/nick-szabo): Computer scientist, legal scholar, and smart-contract pioneer
- [Nikoline Arns](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/nikoline-arns): HUBS Network
- [Odysseas](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/odysseas)
- [Olga Ukolova](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/olga-ukolova)
- [Ondřej Neff](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ondrej-neff): czech writer of science fiction and journalist
- [Ondřej Pilný](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ondrej-pilny): Co-Founder of ICOindex and Crypto Investor
- [Oskar Thorén](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/oskar-thoren): Oskar is an independent researcher, focused on programmable cryptography.
- [Owen Barnes](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/owen-barnes)
- [Pablo Coirolo](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pablo-coirolo): Entrepreneur, CEO of Light 47, Global Coordinating Node of Crypto Bay Montevideo
- [Pamela Morgan](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pamela-morgan)
- [Parazyd](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/parazyd): open source software developer & advocate, co-founder of DarkFi
- [Patrik Tjokorda](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/patrik-tjokorda): From 10 years building payment Fintech companies with 2 exits and MasterCard Award to building trustless peer banking utility for Bitcoin.
- [Paul Dylan-Ennis](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/paul-dylan-ennis): Philosopher and Ethereum researcher
- [Paul Rosenberg](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/paul-rosenberg): Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Free-Man's Perspective newsletter and the co-founder of Cryptohippie.
- [Pavel Hubáček](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pavel-hubacek)
- [Pavel Urbaczka](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pavel-urbaczka): Attorney at law and co-founder of Blockchain Legal
- [Pavla Holcová](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pavla-holcova)
- [Pavol Rusnák](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pavol-rusnak)
- [Pavol Trávnik](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pavol-travnik): IT developer, lawyer & entrepreneur
- [Pascal Caversaccio](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pcaversaccio): Author of The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto
- [Peter Ludlow](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/peter-ludlow): Philosopher and editor
- [Péter Szilágyi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/peter-szilagyi): Dark Bio
- [Peter Todd](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/peter-todd): Peter Todd is an applied cryptography consultant known for his work on the OpenTimestamps project, Bitcoin protocol research, and contributions to the Bitcoin Core project.
- [Peter van Valkenburgh](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/peter-van-valkenburgh): Executive Director of CoinCenter
- [Petr Lupač](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/petr-lupac): Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univerzity (CZ)
- [Piergiorgio Catti De Gasperi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/pg)
- [Phil Zimmermann](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/phil-zimmermann): Creator of PGP and central figure of the first Crypto Wars
- [Polto](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/polto): Bitcoin advocate
- [Radek Svarz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/radek-svarz)
- [Radim Kozub](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/radim-kozub): Radim is attorney-at-law and proud implementer of Paralelni Polis ideas.
- [Ramy Raoof Halim](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ramy-raoof-halim): ex-Tor, Amnesty International, Open Technology Fund
- [Raphael Robert](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/raphael-robert): Phoenix R&D
- [Richard M. Stallman](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/richard-stallman): Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984.
- [Riley Wong](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/riley-wong): Community Privacy Residency
- [Robert De Groot](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/robert-degroot)
- [Robin Berjon](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/robin-berjon): IPFS Foundation
- [Robin Hanson](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/robin-hanson): Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- [Roman Týc](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/roman-tyc)
- [Ruben Somsen](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ruben-somsen): Ruben is working on a protocol design for enhancing Bitcoin.
- [Ryan Lackey](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ryan-lackey): Cypherpunk & security
- [Sam Hart](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sam-hart)
- [Sam Patterson](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sam-patterson): Sam Patterson is the operations leader on OpenBazaar, and a co-founder of the company OB1.
- [Sara Polak](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sara-polak)
- [Sarah Drinkwater](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sarah-drinkwater): Common Magic
- [Satoshi Nakamoto](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/satoshi-nakamoto): Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin
- [Scott Beibin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/scott-beibin)
- [Sebastian Bürgel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sebastian-burgel): Founder of HOPR
- [Sebastian Vogelsang](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sebastian-vogelsang): Eurosky
- [Sergej Kotliar](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sergej-kotliar)
- [Serinko](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/serinko)
- [Seth For Privacy](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sethforprivacy)
- [Severin Bühler](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/severin-buhler): Libertarian builder
- [Shady El Damaty](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/shady-el-damaty): Founder Holonym
- [Shayan Eskandari](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/shayan-eskandari): MOAV: Mother Of All VPNs
- [Silke Noa](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/silke-noa)
- [Silur](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/silur): Cryptographer, Hacker, Monero Research Lab
- [Simone Robutti](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/simone-robutti): Tech Workers Coalition, Cables Of Resistance
- [Marek Palatinus](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/slush): Bitcoin legend, architect in Satoshilabs
- [Smuggler](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/smuggler): Cryptoanarchist and cypherpunk
- [Milan Půlkrábek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sodomak)
- [Sondre Bjellås](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sondre-bjellas)
- [Sonja Prstec](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/sonja-prstec): Lawyer and CLO of Bitnation
- [Spring-onion](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/spring-onion): GrapheneOS
- [Spyros Dovas](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/spyros-dovas): Entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast
- [Stella R. Magnet](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/stella-r-magnet)
- [Suji Yan](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/suji-yan): Mask Network / Lens
- [Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/susanne-tempelhof): BITNATION Founder and CEO
- [Tara Merk](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tara-merk): PhD BlockchainGov, Metagov
- [Tatiana Bazzichelli](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tatiana-bazzichelli): Disruption Network Lab
- [Tatiana Moroz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tatiana-moroz): Singer-songwriter, Founder of Crypto Media Hub, Creator of 1st artist coin TatianaCoin
- [Teresa Neppi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/teresa-neppi)
- [Tereza](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tereza-anarchy)
- [Tey el-Rjula](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tey-el-rjula)
- [Tim Beiko](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tim-beiko)
- [Timothy C. May](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/timothy-c-may): Timothy is an American technical and political writer, he was a former electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel.
- [Tina Haibodi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tina-haibodi)
- [Tobi](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tobi): No Tech for Apartheid
- [Tomáš Marada](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tomas-marada): Mathematician
- [Tomáš Michálek](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tomas-michalek): Co-founder of Prague's MakersLab – a 3D printing makerspace
- [Tone Vays](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tone-vays): Tone is a former Bear Stearns Risk Analyst & JP Morgan Chase VP.
- [Travin Keith](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/travin-keith): Cryptocurrency, Freedom, and Open Source Advocate and Former Digital Nomad
- [tree 木](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tree): anarcho-convivialist 🌱
- [Alan](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/tsu-kareta): Core Contributor Railgun
- [Una Wang](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/una-wang): ETHZurich
- [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ursula-k-le-guin): Science fiction and fantasy author
- [Urza](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/urza): Anarchocapitalist author, member of Svoboda učení, head of Ludwig von Mises Institute CZ/SK, author of Urza.cz.
- [Václav Benda](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vaclav-benda): Czech dissident and author of Paralelní polis
- [Václav Havel](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vaclav-havel): Czech dissident, playwright, and president
- [Václav Pavlín](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vaclav-pavlin)
- [Viktor Trón](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/viktor-tron): Visionary behind distributed tech
- [Vít Jedlička](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vit-jedlicka): Vit Jedlicka has been actively involved with the Liberty movement since his university days.
- [Vitalik Buterin](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vitalik-buterin): Co-founder of Ethereum
- [Vlad Afanasiev](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vlad-afanasiev): Dark Matter Labs
- [Vlad Costea](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/vlad-costea)
- [Wei Dai](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/wei-dai): Cypherpunk and creator of b-money
- [Pavol Lupták](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/wilder): Cryptoanarchist & hacker
- [Will Scott](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/will-scott): Protocol Labs, Snowstorm
- [William Rudolf Lobkowicz](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/william-lobkowicz)
- [Wlodek Gogloza](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/wlodek-gogloza)
- [Xavier Damman](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/xavier-damman): Open Collective
- [Ying Tong](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/ying-tong): Independent cryptographer ex-Zcash, Geometry Research
- [Yisi Liu](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/yisi-liu): Yisi is the co-founder and CTO of Mask Network, focusing on bringing privacy and digital ownership back to normal users using simple technologies.
- [Yonatan Miller](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/yonatan-miller): Tech Workers Coalition Berlin
- [Zdeňka Staňková](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/zdenka-stankova)
- [Zimt](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/zimt): BlockchainGoc
- [Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn](https://heterarchy.fyi/people/zooko): Cypherpunk and Zcash founder