Neocypherpunk Summit

In the organizer's words:

Gathering at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, the Neocypherpunk Summit brings together a global network of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers & policy-makers.

From defending resistance networks under political duress to scaling cryptography as civic infrastructure, the summit explores how open protocols and privacy tools become a resilient, shared foundation for digital autonomy, free assembly, and accountability.

 

What is Neocypherpunk?

The cypherpunk movement, rooted in Eric Hughes' 1993 manifesto, held that cryptography is a political act: writing code to protect privacy is itself resistance to centralized power. That conviction produced PGP, Tor, BitTorrent, and ultimately Bitcoin and Ethereum. But its emphasis was on the sovereign individual, the lone cryptographer building tools in defiance of the state.

Neocypherpunk carries that conviction forward while expanding who it's for. Where the original cypherpunks built for rugged individuals, neocypherpunk insists that privacy must be practiced collectively to be sustained. Encryption, open protocols, and decentralized infrastructure are shared resources, maintained and defended by communities. The goal is not withdrawal from public life but building the conditions under which movements and ordinary people can communicate, organize, and hold power to account without being surveilled, silenced, or captured.