Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May was an American technical, political writer, electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel. He coined the term Cryptoanarchy where government is not only redundant but also irrelevant.

His cryptoanarchy movement has led to the emergence of Cypherpunks such as David Chaum, Wei Dai and others who programmed cryptocurrencies and eventually laid foundation for birth of decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Blockchain.