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\n Paul Rosenberg, founder of the Cryptohippie data protection company advocates a ‘parallel existence’
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A hackers’ congress in Prague on Friday hailed the new cryptocurrencies as a tool to break free from the constraints of modern life and move towards a freer “parallel society”.<\/p>\n

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“Opt out of the system,” is the motto of the annual congress which brings together hundreds of artists, bitcoin developers, hackers, nomads, activists and crypto-anarchists, some wearing masks to hamper identification.<\/p>\n

“Use cryptographic technology to regain privacy, to save freedom, to step up from the first constrained realm and to build the second one,” the organisers said.<\/p>\n

Governments have been using passports for 100 years to mark people, steal their data and boost their own powers, they added.<\/p>\n

“Especially at this point in history… it’s really important to have a separate identity, to live a parallel existence,” Paul Rosenberg, founder of the Cryptohippie data protection company, told reporters, promoting a move to a more liberal country or the use of cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n

“The Greeks were a massively decentralised civilisation: there were a thousand or so Greek city states. And they gave us art, sciences, geometry, drama,” he added. <\/p>\n

Geographer, writer and Oxford University teacher Nick Middleton cited nomadic communities as an example of a parallel society separated from “settled communities who dominate the planet”.<\/p>\n

“Governments don’t like people who move,” he said.<\/p>\n

“In Europe we have Gypsies who like to move around and governments hate them. They can’t control them, they can’t tax them, but also it’s difficult to educate their children.”<\/p>\n

Hailing crypto currencies as a tool for breaking free, Rosenberg said the bitcoin, one of the major topics of the congress, was becoming a success story.<\/p>\n

“We’re watching an entire economic system rise out of nothing,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The first bitcoin transaction was 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza. Now we’re looking at a global currency that has withstood tremendous attacks, tremendous scorn and hate. And it just keeps going on.”<\/p>\n

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