Governments cannot ban Bitcoin anymore than they can ban mathematics or fire. The genie is out of the bottle.

Users can spend and receive Bitcoin without permission. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

Understanding a question is half an answer.

"Your time is finite. Your money should be too." —Ben Price

"Strong hands, full hearts. Can’t lose." —American Hodl

Bitcoin can protect users from inflationary monetary policies. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

"[Bitcoin] is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth." —Allen Farrington

"It's an organism. That's what it is." —Raoul Pal

Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency with practical utility. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

"[It is] your moral duty to invest any excess intellectual capability you can spare in the betterment of Bitcoin, in whatever shape or form." —Rajarshi Maitra

"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

Bitcoin is censorship-resistant by design. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

"This thing is not a toy anymore, and it’s maybe not an asset anymore as well. It is going to be much bigger than that." —Plan B

Every block is a step toward a more transparent world.

It’s the separation of money and state. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. ...I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect--for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only through a glass darkly, any more than he who sees them in their working and effects.

"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos