"Consider just how little persistence Bitcoin’s components have. The entire codebase has been reworked, altered, and expanded such that it barely resembles its original version. […] The registry of who owns what, the ledger itself, is virtually the only persistent trait of the network." —Nic Carter
"Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney
"The Bitcoin tree is tall; its branches spread wide and its roots run deep." —Martin Fischer
"Lightning Network ensures bitcoin’s path to global reserve currency because it makes bitcoin come alive." —Nik Bhatia
"Every time I think I understand Bitcoin, it proves me wrong." —Guy Swann
"I could potentially see a hard-fork in bitcoin, but only if the other option is that bitcoin dies. If anything is even vaguely debateable, then nothing will happen." —Tone Vays
"[Bitcoin is] sort of like this peaceful Manhatten project. All the smartest people are coming together, from across languages, from around the world, to build this sovereign and arguably private money project. That's amazing." —Alex Gladstein
"There's Bitcoin and then there's shitcoin." —Warren Davidson
"Bitcoin is not debt; Bitcoin is not equity. Bitcoin is Bitcoin." —Elisabeth Préfontaine
"Bitcoin is a game we play where we can easily tell when someone is cheating." —Dhruv Bansal
"Does not occur in nature, hence, does not occur in Bitcoin." —Hass McCook
"This is our meme world, and everyone else is just living in it." —Michael Goldstein
"It is a crime against your future to not have any Bitcoin exposure yesterday." —Rodolfo Novak
"A smartphone isn't really a calculator, but it can calculate as well as any calculator. A smartphone isn't really a camera, but it can take photos as well as any camera. Just like bitcoin can currency as well as any currency." —Shudra H Way
"Only two things are genuinely scarce: time and bitcoin." —Saifedean Ammous
"The Tao of Bitcoin is not understanding bitcoin, it is accepting that bitcoin is what it is." —Jameson Lopp
"By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world." —Hugo Nguyen
"Bitcoin is a chaotic attractor. You can’t predict which learning path each person will take, but they all lead to the same place." —Andy Edstrom
"First, there are no bitcoins. There just aren’t. They don’t exist. There are ledger entries in a ledger that’s shared […] They don’t exist in any physical location. The ledger exists in every physical location, essentially. Geography doesn’t make sense here." —Peter Van Valkenburgh
"Austrian economics is necessary (but not sufficient) to understand Bitcoin." —Stephan Livera
