Monero in the Cypherpunk and Libertarian Tradition

This talk makes the case that Monero represents a working piece of counter-economic infrastructure in the sense proposed by Samuel Edward Konkin III.The presentation situates Monero within the broader intellectual lineage running from Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism and Konkin’s agorism through the cypherpunk movement of the early 1990s. It draws on Hayek’s theory of concurrent currencies and denationalisation of money to show that Monero’s privacy-by-default architecture is not merely a technical preference but a direct answer to a theoretical problem posed decades earlier. Where Rothbard, Hayek, and Friedman formulate normative postulates, Monero replaces the norm with an algorithm and law with cryptography.