"Every man who has achieved anything has been a gambler." Alexei Ivanovich on #Bitcoin, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical novel, The Gambler
"Absolute mathematical scarcity, achieved by consensus in a sufficiently decentralized distributed network was a discovery rather than an invention.
It cannot be achieved again by a network made up of participants aware of this discovery, since the very thing discovered was resistance to replicability itself." @knutsvanholm on #bitcoin