“What, exactly, are you waiting for?”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Purgatory)
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“An exchange should be treated like a temporary bridge. You use it to cross from one system to another, not as a place to remain.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Acquire Bitcoin)
“You are made of the same stuff that fills the universe. And being conscious yourself, why would you assume the universe is not also conscious?”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“Bitcoin cannot be re-invented.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Lindy Principle)
“This is the moment Bitcoin stops being a claim held on your behalf and becomes something you actually own.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Store Bitcoin)
“This simple practice changes how you relate to time, effort, and reward.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Craft)
“And in doing so, without effort or intention, you help others find The Way.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoinsattva)
“Concentration creates single points of failure.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Defense)
“You are not selling Bitcoin for dollars. You are spending Bitcoin on your life.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Spend Bitcoin)
“Institutions are no longer viewed through reverence or outrage, but as systems shaped by incentives, populated by ordinary humans, capable of both order and failure.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Governance)
“Be cool.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Raft)
“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)
“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)