I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.
— Paul Graham
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The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.
— Satoshi
[Bitcoin is] more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes.
— Satoshi
Ultimately it’s good for the network for mining to be expensive. It makes it that much harder for a well financed attacker to dominate the network.
— Hal Finney
I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.
— Satoshi
If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.
— Satoshi
It doesn't matter who tells you a longest chain, the proof-of-work speaks for itself.
— Satoshi
You can't stop Bitcoin. It's like trying to stop Gunpowder.
— John McAfee
First step to understanding Bitcoin: admitting you don't understand Bitcoin.
— @Jameson Lopp
For people living under authoritarian governments, Bitcoin can be a valuable financial tool.
— @gladstein
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.
— @gladstein
There is no capacity to kill Bitcoin.
— Patrick McHenry
Bitcoin is a once in a thousand year monetary innovation and it's too late to ignore that fact.
— Nik Bhatia
There is no link between the informational realm and the physical realm. Proof of work is the only thing that creates this link in a probabilistic fashion, because it creates information that speaks for itself.
— @Gigi
I don't think there is anything more important in my lifetime to work on [than Bitcoin].
— Jack Dorsey
“As the Web grew, the average level of sophistication of users dropped. It was hard to explain the importance of privacy to them”
— David Chaum 🥜 #ecash #cashu
We don't need the banks anymore.
— Jack Dorsey
For the first time in human history, we can grant property rights to 8 billion people.
— Michael Saylor
#Bitcoin is the one thing that can't be shutdown. A beacon of freedom in a benighted world.
— Vijay Boyapati
If nuclear war destroyed half of our planet, [Bitcoin] would continue to live, uncorrupted.
— Ralph Merkle