Great question! Many who claim to know or be a cypherpunk often aren’t. There’s a manifesto by Eric Hughes, but it’s really an extension of an older idea: using mathematical techniques (cyphers) to improve your world. This approach goes back to innovations that shaped the modern world.

The core principle is to use current technology to make things better, without needing permission from central authorities—the 'punk' part. It’s mostly about privacy, a human right that needs defending, but also extends to broader freedoms and protections. Satoshi is a great example, believing in privacy and financial freedom, coming from the cypherpunk community that inspired Bitcoin. Still more work to be done!

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html 

 Math is such a fascinating part of our known world… all the things we can do with it. For instance, I didn’t really understand the value of cryptocurrency until I started making friends around the world.

but I met a beautiful woman once… her family had been killed in a brutal civil war in her nation, her entire village… in front of her, in a day. But, she lived, and she was able to get herself out of a bad situation because her money was in Bitcoin on her ledger and it made it easy for her to escape. Changed my life. Changed my perspective.