A Cypherpunk's Library

The Praxeology of Privacy

Max Hildebrand

2026 · 587 pages

Max Hildebrand's synthesis of two traditions that reach the same end from opposite starts: Austrian economics, which deduces from the fact of human action that observation is the precondition of state predation, and the cypherpunks, who wrote the running code that proves these systems can be defended. A treatise on why privacy matters, and a working field guide to the engineering that makes it survivable.