"Bitcoin is a device for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient." —Stephan Livera
Bitcoin Quotes
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"I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building." —Dan Held
"Over the last 10 to 15 years there has been an uprising of people who value privacy, not because they are weird and want to go and hide in the woods, ordinary citizens who are not happy with how much data they are handing over." —Riccardo Spagni
"I'm profoundly grateful that Bitcoin exists. " —Elisabeth Préfontaine
"It is a crime against your future to not have any Bitcoin exposure yesterday." —Rodolfo Novak
"Anyone who understands economics and finance and how markets work will be a maximalist because it is more efficient to have one currency than a bunch of ones." —Peter Todd
"Your government considering a Bitcoin ban is a buy signal not a sell signal." —Matt Odell
"Bitcoin is not debt; Bitcoin is not equity. Bitcoin is Bitcoin." —Elisabeth Préfontaine
"The business model for surveillance, which can be used for ill, is advertising." —Nathaniel Whittemore
"I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building." —Dan Held
"Bitcoin is a way out of our current system, which is exclusionary and unjust, and tends to prey on the weak and disenfranchised while letting the corrupt Davos crowd walk free." —Alex Gladstein
"The crypto wars were just the appetiser. Arguably, the stakes are much higher this time. We’re talking about the right to use cash products over the internet - something absolutely fundamental to a functioning society." —Nic Carter
"Fiat is broken, and you can’t fix it. Bitcoin works, and you can’t break it." —Lina Seiche
"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos
"It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"As the world is crashing, bitcoin keeps hashing." —Lt. Col. Steve
"It's not stable-with-respect-to-energy. [...] It's not tied to the cost of energy." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. Because privacy isn't about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. And the thing to protect is a free and open society." —Edward Snowden
"You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things. You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government." —Nick Szabo
"Bitcoin endures because the engineers that build it expect the unexpected. Money is a dangerous game, and any weaknesses, no matter how small, will be exploited." —Neil Woodfine