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Bitcoin Quotes
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"Only a communication link and a power source is required to participate in the ecosystem." —Hass McCook
"Bitcoin is a tool for freeing humanity from oligarchs and tyrants, dressed up as a get-rich-quick scheme." —Naval Ravikant
"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos
"The business model for surveillance, which can be used for ill, is advertising." —Nathaniel Whittemore
"The conscience of Bitcoin will guide you because it springs from such a beautiful place." —Cory Klippsten
"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
"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"Bitcoin is not a luxury of rich countries. Bitcoin is a need of poor countries." —Florencia Ravenna
"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it." —Marty Bent
"Money shouldn't have a memory." —Chris Belcher
"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"A fixed money supply, or a supply altered only in accord with objective and calculable criteria, is a necessary condition to a meaningful just price of money." —Fr. Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.
"People will be forced to pay with bitcoins, not because of 'the technology', but because no one will accept their worthless fiat for payments." —Pierre Rochard
"If you want the bitcoin price to be stable, you gotta put your nuts on the table." —Hass McCook
"Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space." —Bruce Schneier
"Bitcoin is rat poison; it’s just the banks and credit card companies are the rats" —Dan Morehead
"Sometimes I think it would be easier to explain why Bitcoin matters to someone in England 800 years ago than it is to do so today." —David Lawant
"Only two things are genuinely scarce: time and bitcoin." —Saifedean Ammous
"[Bitcoin] is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth." —Allen Farrington