Timothy Mae, the founder of the cipherpunkt movement and the author of the Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto

One of the founding fathers of the cipherpunk movement, based on the e-mail of the same name, and the author of the famous Cryptoanarchist Manifesto , who partially inspired Wei Day and Nick Sabo to create the first prototypes of Bitcoin, died earlier this week. This was reported by Lucky Green encryption, asking everyone to honor May’s memory with a glass of bourbon, if possible.

Previously reported that death occurred for natural reasons.

Timothy May, Eric Hughes and John Gilmore founded the cipherpunk movement in 1992. And the following year, an article about “crypto-rebels” was published in Wired, in which author Stephen Levy spoke in detail about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the US government gradually lost their monopoly on cryptographic developments.

Shifropank ardently defended the ideals of privacy of each person and the openness of technology. Probably, the growing movement could even somehow affect the fact that the US government lifted serious restrictions on the export of cryptographic developments.

Note that May also worked for Intel, where he was able to identify the causes of the alpha particle problem, which adversely affects the reliability of the integrated circuits. So, he found that the ceramic shells of the circuits emitted weak radiation and it was necessary to reduce the susceptibility of the device to this radiation.

Some prominent members of the community have already managed to show their respect for the identity of the encryption on social networks.

RIP Timothy C. May https://t.co/0XU2OFe8sY

– stick⚡Pavol Rusnak (@pavolrusnak) December 15, 2018

Tim May, co-founder of Cypherpunks. https://t.co/Ztgnh009eO

– Jameson Lopp (@lopp) December 15, 2018

RIP TC May … https://t.co/P0KGRuiQ0L I really enjoyed this interview with him earlier this year: https://t.co/ops9awlXMX

– Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) December 15, 2018

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