A 5 Step Guide to Make Ethereum—and Crypto—Cypherpunk Again

The article is a call to revive the cypherpunk spirit in Ethereum and wider crypto by adopting five strategies: making the movement collaborative and inclusive, cultural, fun and easygoing, proactive, and doing rather than preaching. It argues that the community should engage artists, activists, lawyers and academics, since computers and cryptography alone are not enough. It cites Signal as an example of a nonprofit that is funded solely by donations, has never accepted investment, provides its product for free, features no advertisements and collects no user data, yet competes with and outperforms major tech giants.