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		Jabanga on May 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shortchangin... Right. And the development of a global ecommerce market would have been severely hampered if the cypherpunks hadn't won the "crypto wars".

nradov on May 24, 2017 [–]

That's not really what happened. Lobbying by major tech companies such as IBM had a much greater impact on the regulatory changes than anything that the cypherpunks did.

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