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A cryptographer and cypherpunk pioneer, Finney created reusable proof-of-work, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and championed digital privacy, decentralization, and technical freedom.
Political axes
Hal Finney leans further toward free market than 94% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Hal Finney stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Hal Finney sits close to the catalog median.
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Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
Philosophy that advocates maximum individual freedom and a state reduced to essential functions, valuing private property, free markets, and personal autonomy while rejecting state coercion over life.
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Clerical FascismThird Position20%
A British philosopher, Max More is one of the founders of modern transhumanism and extropianism, defending the use of technology to overcome human limits, extend life, and expand individual freedom.
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During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
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