The use of digital signatures provides strong authentication for transactions. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

"Bitcoin number go up means state power go down." —Stephen Cole

"Shitcoins are called shitcoins because they are shit compared to Bitcoin." —John Carvalho

The network rewards miners proportional to the computational work they perform. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

"Bitcoin is like early electricity. Raw, dangerous, seems very volatile and hard to use. With time it'll start to feel safer, easier and normal. Like electricity it will inspire and power new unimaginable industries. And one day we’ll wonder how did we live without it?" —Obi-Wan Kenobit

"I'm at a point right now where you can't fuck with me. They can put in laws wherever the fuck they want. I have enough money and social mobility to move anywhere where I find a favorable regulatory climate. What are you really gonna do to me? And, I'm willing to lose everything. [...] I'm willing to watch it all go to zero just for the chance to change the system. How are you gonna beat me if I'm that intolerant? You can't. And there's thousands of me." —American Hodl

The software incentivizes miners to follow the protocol by rewarding them with new coins and transaction fees. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Understanding a question is half an answer.

"Price touches everything, and money touches price." —John Vallis

Bitcoin is the phoenix. Declared dead over 400 times, yet it still produces a block every 10 minutes.

Bitcoin replaces trust with mathematical proof and network consensus. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

"Decentralized and private payments are a necessary innovation for a digital future where we retain our civil liberties and personal freedoms." —Alex Gladstein

"Bitcoin will change us more than we will change it." —Marty Bent

Bitcoin transactions are irreversible and final once confirmed. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

"Bitcoin fixes you." —Pierre Rochard

Bitcoin cannot go to zero as long as the internet exists and one person values freedom. Mathematics is unkillable.