https://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo...
https://web.archive.org/web/19990125094806/http://www.direct...
Didn't some of the cypherpunks move out to anguila to avoid the crypto export bans during the first crypto wars?
Vince Cate moved there to work on export-banned crypto, renouncing his citizenship and would start an ISP on the island after the banks rejected his electronic money ideas. This could have been PayPal in another timeline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Cate
the e-Gold people met there on an occasion, and Robert Hettinga and MIT researcher Rafael Hirschfield started the International Conference on Financial Cryptography in Anguila. https://news.ai/ref/crypto98.html
So not in droves but it was a place, as it were.
While I too would prefer it, I realize it is an idealist fantasy at this point.
Nathan Barley is a great watch. It also has one of my favourite terms for a mobile phone “hand held twit machine” (pre smartphones)
A facilitator was found, a deal was negotiated, and then the lawyers got involved and went "no way in hell will we let the company's primary domain renewal rely on someone walking a money order into an office in Trinidad". C'est la vie
donq1xote1•3mo ago
randomtoast•3mo ago
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAI
buildbot•3mo ago
jonway•3mo ago
Now it looks like restaurant adverts. Maybe not much happens there any longer.
pridkett•3mo ago
Semi related to this - Ian Goldberg famously had the email address n@ai (Ian backwards if you missed it) - which caused problems for many mail clients and validators. I’d imagine cypherpunks.ca is easier to use. I saw similar things with one of the Balkans in 1998 - I think it was Croatia, where some government officials had name@hr email addresses.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-January/...