“Alan Watts often asked his students a deceivingly simple question: ‘What would you like to do if money were no object?’ The point of the question is, of course, to help you figure out what you want to do with your life. What is your calling? What is it that you would really like to do? What is your craft? Or rather: what do you want your craft to be?”
— Gigi, Foreword to The Way of Bitcoin
“Modern healthcare operates within a fiat incentive structure. In this system, internal states are often framed as malfunctions. Sadness becomes a disorder. Anxiety becomes a condition. Restlessness becomes a label. Each diagnosis carries a corresponding prescription. There is a pill for that.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Health)
“A digital world demands a form of money that settles as fast as information, yet is also scarce, verifiable, and internet native.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (A Brief History of Money)
“The next stage is called Bitcoin Purgatory. The term was coined by Junseth to describe a state many Bitcoiners pass through. You understand Bitcoin. You see the fiat system clearly. You save in Bitcoin and hold your own keys. And yet, life feels paused.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Purgatory)
“Consistency matters more than precision.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Acquire Bitcoin)
“Imagine, at dawn, a multidimensional spider’s web covered in dew: a vast, vast spider’s web that is the whole cosmos, not merely a flat thing, but a structure extending in many dimensions, covered with jewels of dew, each reflecting all the others. Every drop contains the reflection of every other drop. And within each reflection are all the others again, ad infinitum.”
— Alan Watts, Religion of No Religion lecture (1965), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“the book traces Eight Stages. These stages describe the changes that tend to arise within a Bitcoiner as he proceeds along The Way. Each stage is paired with a sādhana”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Preface)
“Once the Lindy Principle is absorbed in this context, it begins to appear everywhere.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Lindy Principle)
“The seed phrase belongs in the physical world, not the digital world.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Store Bitcoin)
“As you follow The Way, curiosity will widen rather than narrow.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Craft)
“Simply be where you are, doing what is yours to do.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoinsattva)
“The correct answer to ‘How much Bitcoin do you have?’ is ‘Not enough.’”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Defense)
“Treat Bitcoin not as a museum artifact, but as living money.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Spend Bitcoin)
“The man who only wants to be left alone tends to lose to the man who wants to rule.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Governance)
“There is a temptation, once you have crossed the river, to turn back and shout instructions. To urge others to hurry. To feel frustration toward those still standing on the bank, or paddling their rafts in circles. This too is a way of carrying the raft on your back.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Raft)
“Every bit counts.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Dynasty)
“It is like a seed being planted. Nothing outward has changed. The surface looks the same. And yet something has entered the soil.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Inception)
“Modern news is engineered to capture attention through fear, outrage, and urgency. Doom scrolling is an accurate description. Prolonged exposure degrades moods, narrows perception, drains energy, and often makes reality appear worse than it actually is.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Media)
“Notice what remains when nothing needs defending.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Maximalism)
“You start looking for ways to get ahead of the problem rather than merely manage it.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Eight Stages)
