The proof-of-work function is intentionally hard to compute but easy to verify. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

"Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet." —Edward Snowden

"In the near future, the government having a monopoly on money will seem as strange as the government having a monopoly on religion or language." —Conner Brown

The system is designed to be scalable and efficient. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

"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

Every block is a step toward a more transparent world.

The decentralized nature of the system removes the need for a central clearinghouse. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

"There's Bitcoin and then there's shitcoin." —Warren Davidson

"Bitcoin is simply an opt-in, open-source software with the historically reliable property of making its users wealthy." —Jesse Lawler

The protocol is designed to prevent double spending without a central authority. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.

"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

"We are so early it's not even funny" —Brian @BTCDA

The system is permissionless; anyone can participate without approval. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.

The ability to conduct economic transactions anonymously is the ultimate form of personal power against centralized control.

"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