"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
Bitcoin Quotes
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"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
"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
"You shall not confiscate. You shall not censor. You shall not inflate. You shall not counterfeit. These rules are the essence of Bitcoin's soul." —Hasu
"The tools that we need to help push the pendulum of power back towards the individual exist today. They just aren't widely known or evenly distributed." —Marty Bent
"Building a portfolio around shitcoins is just a shitfolio." —Saifedean Ammous
"Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney
"It would be a dark, dark world if Bitcoin didn’t exist." —Alex Gladstein
"Bitcoin isn't about getting your money out of your country. It's about getting your country out of your money." —Farbood
"In comparison to modern distributed databases, blockchains are slow, ponderous, unnecessarily redundant and overly paranoid." —Dhruv Bansal
"I realised, oh, this ledger is now being maintained on everyone’s computers in real time so no one can freeze it, no one can reverse it, no one can counterfeit, no one can double spend. That’s when it really clicked for me." —Charlie Shrem
"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail." —Hal Finney
"If nuclear war destroyed half of our planet, [Bitcoin] would continue to live, uncorrupted." —Ralph Merkle
"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos
"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
"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
"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
"Sats are my safe haven." —Matt Odell