"A pure peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." — Satoshi Nakamoto (2008). #Bitcoin #P2P #Whitepaper
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"The problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust." — Satoshi Nakamoto (2009). #Satoshi #Nakamoto #FixTheMoney
"Encryption is a fundamental human right. It is the ability to have a private conversation in a world where everything you say is being recorded for the state’s benefit." — Phil Zimmermann (Creator of PGP). #Encryption #PGP #HumanRights
"Code is Law." — Lawrence Lessig (1999). In the digital age, the architecture of the system dictates the boundaries of our freedom. #Cyberlaw #CodeIsLaw #Bitcoin
"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them." — Hal Finney, Cypherpunks Mailing List (1992). #Cypherpunk #HalFinney #Freedom
"Everything will be traceable to its owner unless we develop strong, anonymous digital cash." — Hal Finney, Cypherpunks Mailing List (1993). #HalFinney #DigitalCash #Bitcoin
"Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in personal transactions." — Timothy C. May (1988). #CryptoAnarchy #Cypherpunk #Bitcoin
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the digital age... We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence." — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993). #Cypherpunk #Privacy #Freedom
The real task of Bitcoin in the UK is not to replace the Pound, but to provide an exit for those who refuse to be liquidated by it. #Bitcoin #UK #OptOut #Sovereignty
"The choice is between the control of money by the politicians and the control of money by the savers. There is no middle ground." — Friedrich Hayek, The Denationalization of Money. #Hayek #Choices #Bitcoin
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." — Henry Ford. #Banking #Money #Revolution
The "Sterling Area" was once a zone of stability. Today, it is a zone of managed decline, where the Bank of England’s primary function is to maintain the illusion of solvency. #UK #Sterling #EconomicDecline
"Persistent inflation is always and everywhere a result of the government’s increase in the supply of money." — Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policy (1979). #Mises #Inflation #SoundMoney
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"Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that the public finds it easy to pay and the government finds it easy to collect." — F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960). #Hayek #Taxes #Inflation
"The Bank of England was the first central bank to show the world how to use the printing press to finance war and state expansion at the expense of the saver." — Murray Rothbard. #BoE #Rothbard #History
"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction." — John Maynard Keynes (1919). #Inflation #Keynes #Economics
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The Pound Sterling has lost over 99% of its value against gold since the Bank of England was founded in 1694. We are living through the final stages of a 300-year experiment in debt-based currency. #BoE #MonetaryHistory #Bitcoin
In 1971, the Gold price was £18 per ounce. By 1980, it was £240. By 2024, it exceeded £2,000. This is not gold getting more expensive; it is the Pound Sterling losing the battle against time. #Sterling #Gold #Bitcoin #UK