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Bitcoin Quotes
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"It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"As the world is crashing, bitcoin keeps hashing." —Lt. Col. Steve
"It's not stable-with-respect-to-energy. [...] It's not tied to the cost of energy." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. Because privacy isn't about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. And the thing to protect is a free and open society." —Edward Snowden
"You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things. You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government." —Nick Szabo
"Bitcoin endures because the engineers that build it expect the unexpected. Money is a dangerous game, and any weaknesses, no matter how small, will be exploited." —Neil Woodfine
"You shall not confiscate. You shall not censor. You shall not inflate. You shall not counterfeit. These rules are the essence of Bitcoin's soul." —Hasu
"Buying bitcoin is an act of sanity in an insane world." —Bitcoin Tina
"Bitcoin is perhaps the first scarce thing in the world we can say we truly possess." —Jimmy Song
"Bitcoin has come much further and much faster than people expected. There was a saying in the early dotcom era about “internet time,” and bitcoin time seems to be moving even faster." —Adam Back
"Bitcoin is a optimist bet on the future, a bet on human ingenuity. Gold is a pessimist bet on the past and, often a bet the end of civilization." —Rodolfo Novak
"Through owning bitcoin you are part of the revolution." —Dan Held
"Stay humble. Stack sats." —Matt Odell
"Bitcoin is the only game where the pursuit of self-interest dismantles the powers that be." —Hugo Nguyen
"Money should not be free as in beer, it should be free as in freedom. Libre money, not free money. Bitcoin, not fiat." —Pierre Rochard
"Money is not arbitrary. If you look at the history of money you see all different things such as textiles, Yap stones [...] and it's not arbitrary they are very consistent things like unforgeable costliness, the demand for scarce supply and the durability." —Nick Szabo
"Bitcoin has an inescapable, unavoidable, and omnipotent magnetism for the brightest and most revolutionary minds on the planet. I've never witnessed anything like it." —Brandon Bridge
"The price of admission in bitcoin is your ego. The price of admission in the fiat system is your soul." —Anil
"Miners are bitcoin's slaves, not masters." —Saifedean Ammous