# A Sapphirepunk Manifesto

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Submitted by misha on 2025-06-19 UTC, 7 upvotes, 3 comments

## Summary

A Sapphirepunk manifesto by Naomiii, Andr0meda, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Sasha Shilina and Wastelander holds that privacy should be a shared commons and a starting condition for community, not an endpoint. It rejects the old Cypherpunk dream and states that cryptography alone cannot protect the world, and that encryption without an ethics of care merely hardens existing oppression. The text, described as a work in progress, calls for technologies rooted in justice and rejects market supremacism, hyper-individualism and the privatisation of privacy.

## Article

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Naomiii, Andr0meda, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Sasha Shilina, Wastelander

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The old Cypherpunk dream is dead

"Privacy is not a bunker; it's a commons."

"Sovereignty is never in isolation; it's always in relation."

"We refuse acceleration without direction, optimisation without ethics, and autonomy without care."

"We do not merely seek privacy, we seek solidarity."

"We reimagine cryptographic tools as instruments of communion, not alienation."

"There is no security through insecurity."

"To act as a Sapphirepunk is to believe that privacy is not the endpoint, but rather a necessary starting condition for imagination, resistance, and community."

A call to Reimagine

"We summon forth new political, and poetic, imaginaries"

"A being who blurs the hardened lines between body and code, self and system"

"Let these new worlds be plural, caring, and free."

"The design, implementation, and operation of technological systems are the ground on which future struggles will be fought."

"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."

"Engineer technologies rooted in justice, and infrastructures grounded in togetherness."

Cryptographic Truths

"The world cannot be protected by cryptography alone."

"Zero knowledge does not equal zero harm."

"Cypherpunk has always been a luxury belief."

"Encryption without an ethics of care is merely a harder shell around the same old oppression."

"The nodes of the many, outweigh the nodes of the few."

"You are more than a glorified wallet. You are a contributor to a world yet to be made."

"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

Fannie Lou Hamer

Sapphirepunks Reject:

"The abstraction of the human experience into mere code"

"Market supremacism that commodities every relation"

"Hyper-individualism, cloaked as innovation, hollowing out the commons"

"The automation of inequality, and the weaponisation of machine efficiency"

"Opaque and unfair architectures that appropriate the valour of 'privacy' and 'community'"

"The privatisation of privacy, wherein the right to remain unseen becomes a luxury"

"When the master's house is a casino, the master always wins."

Being Sapphirine

"We do not run from the world, we actively shape it."

"Sapphirepunk politics attends to the emotional labor of being visible, accountable, and relationally entangled."

"Technology alone cannot heal broken trust, nourish our commons, nor honour the web of life."

"Just slow the fuck down and honour the craft."

"Together, we have power, in the contingent labour of world-making."

The Sapphirepunks

## Comments

**naomiii.eth**: yay - actually we also have a ddocs version of this which you can find on the blog (maybe not the best way to name that haha) 

https://docs.fileverse.io/0x22c3e3290bEecAA3aD5B1879A672Fc9139368AD2/35#key=Etx9bqWqhP2BhHZAfkWm2Ny94GM3TjwGqbsocIe0NZc_kl1aJlN0o_IPmVXU6jXt 

**tim**: Damn Naomiii so cool! Congratz on publishing this!

**naomiii.eth**: Thank you, it was a big team effort - I am but a contributor. 

There was 30 pages and we cut it down, but there will probably some additional thoughts and posts around this too :)) 

We just need to find time, but it's a good start and base for conversations I'd say.