# Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [111]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2015 (year of the work, not of publication), https://archive.devcon.org/devcon-1/dangerous-old-men-cypherpunks-failure-ethereums-success. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015), before the law step (Mattereum, 2017). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Ledger-stage talk listing. - Career works it belongs to: - Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015): Talk at Devcon 1, the Ethereum developer conference in London, on why cypherpunk failed and Ethereum... - Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments, entrepreneurs as the scarce... (suggested by machine) - Forbes (2017): Forbes interview on why Ethereum is the future. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: gupta / vinay / blockchain (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Devcon 1 (3 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); Dangerous Old Men (2 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); cypherpunk (3 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); cryptoeconomics (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); Imogen Heap (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); IPFS (1 here; 13 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Cypherpunks (1 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); expertise (1 here; 65 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); communications (1 here; 81 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 5 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): cryptoeconomics; Devcon 1; Dangerous Old Men - Importance: core-text score 0.20 (1.00 is the top), number 359 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [79] [Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/79.md); [85] [Swarm Cooperatives Schedule | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/85.md); [697] [Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru - TRAILER | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/697.md) - On the same works, just after: [113] [The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md); [695] [Vinay Gupta - Dangerous Old Men: cypherpunk's failure,... (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/695.md); [684] [DEVCON1: Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure,... (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/684.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success, document, 2015, https://archive.devcon.org/devcon-1/dangerous-old-men-cypherpunks-failure-ethereums-success; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [111], https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://archive.devcon.org/devcon-1/dangerous-old-men-cypherpunks-failure-ethereums-success) Origin: live Devcon Archive Devcon Archive logo Devcon Devconnect Forum Blog Watch Event Devcon 8 Devconnect ARG Devcon 7 Devcon 6 Devcon 5 Devcon 4 Devcon 3 Devcon 2 Devcon 1 Devcon 0 Categories Cryptoeconomics Devcon Developer Experience Coordination Core Protocol Layer 2s Real World Ethereum Cypherpunk & Privacy Security Applied Cryptography Usability Playlists Suggested Loading results.. View all About Devcon — Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. An intensive introduction for new Ethereum explorers, a global family reunion for those already a part of our ecosystem, and a source of energy and creativity for all. Watch Devcon Devconnect Forum Blog Get in touch [email removed] Subscribe to our newsletter Subscribe Crafted with passion ❤️ at the Ethereum Foundation © 2026 — Ethereum Foundation. All Rights Reserved. devcon 1 / dangerous old men cypherpunks failure ethereums success YouTube IPFS Details Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success Duration: 00:49:04 Speaker: Vinay Gupta, Imogen Heap Type: Talk Expertise: Intermediate Event: Devcon 1 Date: Nov 2026 Vinay Gupta presents on cypherpunk's history, it's failure and Ethereum's success. Vinay Gupta is a leading thinker on infrastructure theory, state failure solutions, and managing global system risks including poverty/development and the environmental crisis. He is inventor of the hexayurt. Vinay formerly served on Ethereum's communications and release management teams. Categories Governance & Coordination --- End of [111] Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [113](https://guptaoption.com/texts/113.md) The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog (2015); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.