Red Light Cypherpunks: A Walking Tour

​Amsterdam has been a privacy town for four hundred years. This tour explores the Red light District; keeping peoples secrets for hundreds of years.

​In the 1600s it was where you printed the book that would get you arrested at home; publishers here ran fake imprints and anonymous editions so that Spinoza, Descartes, and Locke could reach readers across a censored continent. In the 1940s it was forged identity papers and clandestine presses. In the 1980s it was squats, phone phreaks, and Hack-Tic, which grew into one of the first public ISPs in the world. The tools changed; the argument did not.

​Join us for a 1.5 to 2 hour walk through the city's history. No booths, no pitch competitions, no lectures or unconference AI knowledge graphs. Just a small group walking and talking, with some cool SWAG.

​We finish at a bar and keep going. Honestly, the bar is half the point: the walk is a two hour icebreaker with better scenery, and by the time we sit down you already know who you want to keep talking to.

Sponsored by ZCASH, and a part of Cypherpunk Week in Amsterdam.

Accessibility: This is a walking tour, on uneven ground, and includes steps. The tour will be given in spoken English, if you require a sign language interpreter please message the host.