"Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney
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The system is permissionless; anyone can participate without approval. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
"I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building." —Dan Held
Zapping is the new universal language of value. "[...] a concerted and state-sanctioned attempt to kill it never materialized. [...] no-one wanted to set a legal precedent of censoring general purpose technology simply because of one set of legally problematic uses." —Simon Morris
We can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
I neither know nor think that I know
"I can remember 12 words. Therefore I am a free man." —Adam Curry
"It's not stable-with-respect-to-energy. [...] It's not tied to the cost of energy." —Satoshi Nakamoto
The community ensures the software remains secure and up-to-date. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
"Code mixed with robust game theory is superior to hierarchical command and control" —ℭoinsure
"Bitcoin is a risk asset with a specific set of investment characteristics that become increasingly more attractive the more irresponsible monetary and fiscal policy becomes." —Travis Kling
Mining requires significant energy expenditure to secure the network. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.
"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"We don't have to have this big giant massive collapse. It just organically blows up, one-by-one, as people move to a harder, sounder money. And in the process, Bitcoin becomes a black hole on the world's balance sheet." —Trace Mayer
The wallet software can generate a new keypair for each transaction. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
"Bitcoin isn’t competing for resources. Resources are competing for Bitcoin." —Obi-Wan Kenobit