Lunarpunk and the dark side of the cycle

📽 Lunarpunk and the dark side of the cycle

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J_Pov8cO7O4

Solarpunk

• Evolved from Cyberpunk
• Characteristics:
  • Optimizm (“the system won’t turn against me”)
  • Transparency
  • Future-oriented

Public access to a decentralized and transparent financial system will lead to fairer and more just world.

Lunarpunk

Lunarpunks prepare for war and build privacy-enhanced tooling to protect their communities.

• Breaks away from the Solarpunk ideals & asserts its own
• Powerstruggle with existing powerstructures and crypto
• Nation-states banning crypto
• Snowcrash - Neil Septh

Fragility & Anti-Fragility

Diptych: a work made up of two matching parts

• User-Empowerment & System Antifragility
• “The more empowered the user-base, the more anti-fragile the system becomes”

A prophecy

• More anonymitiy leads to more surveillance and vice versa
• The regulation trap:
  • Justify surveillance
  • Crack down on anonymity
  • By cracking down, they justify the use of anonymity
• SethForPrivacy: Bitcoin’s Fungibility Graveyard

Symbols

• Sun: Bright, Desert, Nature & Tyranny
  • desert landscapes
  • users are exposed
• Lunarpunk: Dark, Forest, Diversity & teeming with life
  • dark forest
  • users are protected behind a layer of cryptography