First things first: PleasrDAO, a DAO collective of high profile crypto people, will drop a 1:1 Ethereum NFT entitled:
tomorrow 12.1., 3pm ET. The auction will be live and you can access it here.
The NFT was developed together with Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg and pays tribute to Ellsberg’s 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers.
Snowden sold his first NFT named “Stay Free” in April 2021 for $5.1m to PleasrDAO, to fund the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
“Stay Free” combines the entirety of a landmark court decision ruling the National Security Agency's mass surveillance violated the law, with the iconic portrait of the whistleblower, signed by Edward Snowden.
Privacy and freedom underpin the core philosophies of Web3, crypto and ultimately Bitcoin.
The idea of a private, state-independent currency originated from the early innings of the “Cypherpunk” movement. Cypherpunk refers to a group of people in the late 1980s and 1990s, who recognized the necessity to protect people's privacy online by using cryptography:
Privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.
