1992 December 7, Robert X. Cringely, “Mickey Schulhof: Sony's American Ninja”, in Forbes[1], page 52:
Everyone has so darn much fun that they decide to make the arrangement permanent, move to Montana, form a cryptolibertarian commune and stop paying taxes.
2001, Steven Best, Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium[2], page 124:
Informed by cryptolibertarian or neoliberal politics, and completely lacking a critical theory of society, many complexity theorists manage little more than to repackage the hoariest free market and social Darwinist ideologies for a global capitalism where social regulation is everywhere in decline.
2009, Michael Bérubé, The Left at War[3], page 39:
For the past twenty or thirty years, theorists in cultural studies have made something of a cottage industry out of contesting the “media effects” and the “manufacturing consent” model of cultural analysis; and a libertarian (perhaps cryptolibertarian) wing of cultural studies, in which consumers are somehow empowered by their purchases (particularly if they wind up doing interesting things with the products they obtain), has widely and not inaccurately been portrayed as a form of naive critical populism.
2012, Andy Greenberg, This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information[4], page 65:
With those inchoate thoughts of anonymous security breaches whispering in May’s ear, he discovered the article whose ideas would finally make his crypto-libertarian dreams possible.
2015, Carrie-Ann Biondi, “Counter-Culture Capitalist”, in Shawn E. Klein, editors, Steve Jobs and Philosophy[5], page 20:
Techno-geeks devoured the crypto-libertarian science fiction of authors like Robert Heinlein, and they ushered in the computer revolution.
2016, Raymond Fisman, The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them - And They Shape Us[6], page 4:
They feature, on the one side, those who fear all market innovations as crypto-libertarian plots to deregulate the world and enslave us all and, on the other, market fundamentalists who see free and open markets as the solution to all the world’s ills—and then some.
2016, Ian DeMartino, The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency[7], page 102:
But there is also a sect of crypto-libertarian believers who do have a set of consistent and clear principles that generally pushes their software in a certain direction.
2017, Alec Ross, The Industries of the Future[8], page 118:
I think that the cryptocurrency that breaks out (whether it is Bitcoin or another) will shed its cryptolibertarian roots and embrace the responsibilities that come with being economically significant.
1997 September 8, Josh McHugh, “Politics for the really cool”, in Forbes[9], page 172:
Move over, Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Socialists and Fascists. Here come the Cryptolibertarians, the wirehead heirs of Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau.
2018, Primavera De Filippi, “Citizenship in the Era of Blockchain-Based Virtual Nations”, in Rainer Bauböck, editor, Market Valuation of Citizenship by Nation (Value of Human Life)[10], pages 272-273:
This vision is also shared by a number of crypto-libertarians, such as the team behind Bitnation, who believe that — since we have lost trust in our governments — we shall now rely on blockchain technology to create trustless systems (i.e. systems where trust is no longer needed) with a view to support and facilitate a series of atomic peer-to-peer interactions in a seemingly stateless environment.
2024, Ben Collier, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy[11], page 119:
In 2008, Murdoch released the Tor Browser Bundle, bringing Tor farther out of the bedrooms of computer enthusiasts and crypto-libertarians and into a much wider world of users.
