"It’s what I like to call the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, Number Go Up." —Saifedean Ammous

The protocol supports lightweight clients using Simplified Payment Verification. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

"Bitcoin is money that most closely aligns with the principles of Natural Law." —Jimmy Song

"Imagine, everything there is and everything that will ever be, divided by 21 million." —Knut Svanholm

Bitcoin addresses are derived from public keys through a hashing process. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

"When I first stumbled upon this Mengerian framework of money, this is when I actually thought it's game over for all the shitcoins out there." —Emil Sandstedt

"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

We can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

I honor and love you: but why do you who are citizens of the great and mighty nation care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor And reputation, and so little amount wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Re you not ashamed of these?... I do nothing but go about persuading you all, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by more, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man.

"Bitcoin is. And that is enough." —Beautyon

"If you think proof-of-stake is a good idea, it means you never understood proof-of-work in the first place." —Adam Gibson

The open ledger allows anyone to audit the currency supply. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Understanding a question is half an answer.

"We're going from infinite money and finite energy to finite money and infinite energy." —Abe Cambridge

"In our desire for abundance, we’ve vilified scarcity — and in the process eroded our notion of value." —Aleks Svetski

Bitcoin solves the double-spending problem with a peer-to-peer network and proof-of-work. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

"The twin pillars of Bitcoin's value proposition: (1) It's possible to secure and transport your wealth without anyone's permission (2) Your wealth cannot be debased. Everything else is noise." —Vijay Boyapati