"Consider just how little persistence Bitcoin’s components have. The entire codebase has been reworked, altered, and expanded such that it barely resembles its original version. […] The registry of who owns what, the ledger itself, is virtually the only persistent trait of the network." —Nic Carter
Bitcoin Quotes
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"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"Bitcoin is not a luxury of rich countries. Bitcoin is a need of poor countries." —Florencia Ravenna
"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it." —Marty Bent
"Money shouldn't have a memory." —Chris Belcher
"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"A fixed money supply, or a supply altered only in accord with objective and calculable criteria, is a necessary condition to a meaningful just price of money." —Fr. Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.
"People will be forced to pay with bitcoins, not because of 'the technology', but because no one will accept their worthless fiat for payments." —Pierre Rochard
"If you want the bitcoin price to be stable, you gotta put your nuts on the table." —Hass McCook
"Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space." —Bruce Schneier
"Bitcoin is rat poison; it’s just the banks and credit card companies are the rats" —Dan Morehead
"Sometimes I think it would be easier to explain why Bitcoin matters to someone in England 800 years ago than it is to do so today." —David Lawant
"Only two things are genuinely scarce: time and bitcoin." —Saifedean Ammous
"[Bitcoin] is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth." —Allen Farrington
"Does not occur in nature, hence, does not occur in Bitcoin." —Hass McCook
"The number will go up until the old world is replaced with the new." —Balaji S. Srinivasan
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, and usually of inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments." —Friedrich Hayek
"It is a crime against your future to not have any Bitcoin exposure yesterday." —Rodolfo Novak
"Bitcoin is a tool of resistance gifted to us by Satoshi. The idea has escaped and the idea of cryptocurrency will not be stopped." —Amir Taaki
"Bitcoin is a game we play where we can easily tell when someone is cheating." —Dhruv Bansal