“Unlike other assets whose supply increases as price rises, Bitcoin’s supply cannot expand in response to demand. When gold rises in price, more gold mines open. When Bitcoin rises in price, nothing changes. The supply is fixed, forever.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Dynasty)
“As confidence weakens, dominance fades. Another system rises to take its place.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (A Brief History of Money)
“You are an aperture through which the universe looks at itself.”
— Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind lecture (late 1960s), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“The key question is not How do I get a Bitcoin job? It is What am I called to do?”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Craft)
“Layered defense buys time. Time reveals intent. Time creates choices.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Defense)
“Be mindful of death. It comes for us all. Better to plan your inheritance deliberately than to leave it to chance or allow the kleptocrats to seize it.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Dynasty)
“Sound money stops being a theory.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Acquire Bitcoin)
“God is not something out there, seated on a throne, watching and judging from afar. God is in here.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“Save something regularly, before discretionary spending.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Craft)
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato, quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Governance)
“Tools are not meant to be clung to.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Raft)
“Dynastic thinking begins when time stretches beyond the individual.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Dynasty)
“Bitcoin matters, in both senses of the word. It remarries money to the physical, healing the fatal wound that was inflicted in 1971. But more importantly, it matters for you, the individual.”
— Gigi, Foreword to The Way of Bitcoin
“Out of this landscape, something old returns in a new form. Bitcoin.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (A Brief History of Money)
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Acquire Bitcoin)
“Tat Tvam Asi. Thou art That.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Religion)
“Bitcoin inheritance is not an abstraction. It is a responsibility.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Defense)
“Spend. Don’t sell.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Spend Bitcoin)
“Philosopher-kings are those who cultivate wisdom, discipline, and restraint within themselves before exercising authority over others. They serve something higher than their own ego.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Governance)
“Bitcoin will always require stewards.”
— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Raft)
