"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
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Bitcoin's open design encourages innovation and experimentation. -- Satoshi Nakamoto
Understanding a question is half an answer.
"One of the greatest things that Satoshi did was disappear." —Jimmy Song
"Bitcoin is novel in that all financial transactions can be validated from public data and without identity." —Eric Voskuil
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
"\"The mind is everything; what you think you become.\""
"\"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.\""
"The path to maximalism is paved with the bones of shitcoins." —Crypto Contagion
"Bitcoin is like gold but with this magical ability that you can teleport it." —Vijay Boyapati
"The road to serfdom is working exponentially harder for a currency that is growing exponentially weaker." —Michael Saylor
"[Bitcoin's] mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Trusted third parties are security holes." —Nick Szabo
"Decentralization via minimizing the cost to verify must be bitcoin's priority." —Brady
"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
Zapping is the new universal language of value. "[...] a concerted and state-sanctioned attempt to kill it never materialized. [...] no-one wanted to set a legal precedent of censoring general purpose technology simply because of one set of legally problematic uses." —Simon Morris
"I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop." —Friedrich Hayek
"Buying bitcoin is an act of sanity in an insane world." —Bitcoin Tina
"This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily. You want it to be very difficult to change history. The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive." —Jimmy Song
"Fix the money (Fix the pricing mechanism of capitalistic interactions). Fix the world." —Marty Bent