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If you only clicked on the post to tell me crypto sucks let me disappoint - crypto in this case stands for cryptography, as it is for a long time before shitcoins came into existence. 

Many of you might have read Paul Rosenberg's amazing [A lodging of wayfaring men](https://freemansperspective.com/product/a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/). Some of you might even know that Max Hillebrand recently created [an audiobook version of it](https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/). 

But there is a story that predates that book, a real story that probably served as an inspiration for A lodging of wayfaring men. That story is called [The Untold Story of the Greatest Crypto Project Ever](https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/). If you are too cheap to buy it (you should support Paul, he is a legend!) there is a way to read it free as it was published as blog posts. It took a bit to dig them up since the originals on his blog are not available anymore but I think the story is too inspiring not to be shared.

[Introduction](https://web.archive.org/web/20221006080808/https://freemansperspective.com/untold-story-greatest-crypto-project-ever-introduction/)
[Part 1](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/254699-2019-01-17-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)
[Part 2](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/255038-2019-01-24-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)
[Part 3]( https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/255408-2019-01-31-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)
[Part 4](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/255758-2019-02-07-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)
[Part 5](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/256127-2019-02-14-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)
[Part 6](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/256562-2019-02-22-the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-part.htm)

This story is a great starting point to dig further into people involved and their  cypherpunk and anarhocapitalist ideas from the 90s. Maybe more on that in another post.