“Be cool.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Raft)
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“Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.”
— Satoshi Nakamoto, BitcoinTalk forum (2010), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Dynasty)
“You mustn’t frighten them, because they are doing a very far out act. They’re walking on a tightrope, miles up, and they’ve got to do that balancing act. And if you shout they may lose their nerve.”
— Alan Watts, Spiritual Alchemy lecture (mid 1960s), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Inception)
“Just as you are what you eat, you are also what you think.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Media)
“You cannot send gold over the internet. You can only send gold IOUs.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Maximalism)
“You can think of the Eight Stages of Bitcoin as a map. A way of orienting yourself.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Eight Stages)
“What starts with a desperate attempt to hold on to the fruits of your labor might end with a peaceful, content, and fulfilled life.”
— Gigi, Foreword to The Way of Bitcoin
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
— 1 Corinthians 6:19–20, King James Version (1611 AD), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Health)
“Empires rise and fall. Gold endures.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (A Brief History of Money)
“Sometimes focusing on your craft requires changing what you do. Sometimes it means simply doing the work you have been avoiding.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Purgatory)
“Bitcoin is a bearer asset. That fact governs everything that follows.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Acquire Bitcoin)
“You carry God within you.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“There will only ever be twenty-one million Bitcoin. And yet there are infinite fiat currency units waiting to be printed.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Preface)
“Among all contenders for digital gold, Bitcoin is the most Lindy.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Lindy Principle)
“Start with a wallet you control. Move to cold storage when ready.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Store Bitcoin)
“Sats per week, accumulated honestly, add up.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Craft)
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
— Ancient proverb (origin unknown), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoinsattva)
“In the era of AI, anything digitally accessible is vulnerable.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Defense)
“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (circa 350 BC), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Spend Bitcoin)
“Bitcoin remains sovereign because enough people choose to bear responsibility rather than outsource it.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Governance)