Erik Cason: I always hated normal culture. It always just rubbed me really wrong, like sporting event stuff — I just I never got it. It was this weird cultural thing that I couldn’t fit into and it was just hard and the whole thing was hard. Nobody ever wants to celebrate you or encourage you to go on your own weird marches. Whereas with #Bitcoin, there’s just this total opening where I feel like we’re in some insane Burning Man party where everybody’s celebrating how weird and crazy other people can get, and it’s extraordinary. It makes me feel so great that this confederacy of weirdos has popped up that all want to defend their same process and cause, and that we know and identify each other pretty readily and quickly. It’s just so much fun and so exciting and engaging versus the world before. Like, even if I took the pre-#Bitcoin world and thought about the greatest and the highest being that I could be, it pales in comparison to what’s going on here.

Adam Back: There’s actually enough unused hydro power that’s connected to the grid and ready to use that it could power the entire #Bitcoin network just out of the unused power. Of course there are lots more hydro resources globally both constructed and untapped, so even on the hydro side there’s a lot of upside. And of course, I think #Bitcoin is a great vehicle for providing the business fundamentals to fund building more power infrastructure, to drive economic growth for the future.

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