"Bitcoin has a way of separating itself from those that don't understand it." —BCB
"Think of a hardware wallet as a single condom for your Bitcoins. Correct usage can protect you from the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies." —Felix Weis
"Time is interchangeable with volatility. Antifragile systems feed on volatility, which is why they persist over time. Bitcoin is antifragile money—it thrives amid adversity, stressors, and uncertainty; its voracious appetite for volatility ensures its success over time." —Robert Breedlove
"There is beauty in Bitcoin's simplicity. Part of "fixing the money" is fixing the supply and making sure precedents that change monetary policy aren't set." —Marty Bent
"I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, and usually of inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments." —Friedrich Hayek
"Sats are my safe haven." —Matt Odell
"Gold has been forever neutered by centralization." —Marty Bent
"The crypto wars were just the appetiser. Arguably, the stakes are much higher this time. We’re talking about the right to use cash products over the internet - something absolutely fundamental to a functioning society." —Nic Carter
"Bitcoin is. And that is enough." —Beautyon
"[Bitcoin] is a parachute masked as an adrenaline rush." —Anthony Pompliano
"There's Bitcoin and then there's shitcoin." —Warren Davidson
"Bitcoin is wealth insurance." —Matt Odell
"Bitcoin enables individuals to reclaim and reassert their Natural Rights using a system that is inherently significantly harder to control." —Marty Bent
"Consider just how little persistence Bitcoin’s components have. The entire codebase has been reworked, altered, and expanded such that it barely resembles its original version. […] The registry of who owns what, the ledger itself, is virtually the only persistent trait of the network." —Nic Carter
"I realised, oh, this ledger is now being maintained on everyone’s computers in real time so no one can freeze it, no one can reverse it, no one can counterfeit, no one can double spend. That’s when it really clicked for me." —Charlie Shrem
"The innovation is that BTC is hard to shut down. [...] Designed from the ground up to survive under the most adversarial conditions." —Hasu
"I'm not here to fix Bitcoin." —Michael Saylor
"Computer illiteracy and economic ignorance are the toxic cocktail that makes it impossible to understand Bitcoin." —Beautyon
"Bitcoin is deterministic optimism." —NVK
"Bitcoin breaks politics." —Robert Breedlove
"Bitcoin not having a “community” is a feature." —Rodolfo Novak
"I can remember 12 words. Therefore I am a free man." —Adam Curry
"It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though." —Satoshi Nakamoto
"It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. Because privacy isn't about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. And the thing to protect is a free and open society." —Edward Snowden
"Bitcoin endures because the engineers that build it expect the unexpected. Money is a dangerous game, and any weaknesses, no matter how small, will be exploited." —Neil Woodfine
"You shall not confiscate. You shall not censor. You shall not inflate. You shall not counterfeit. These rules are the essence of Bitcoin's soul." —Hasu
"The tools that we need to help push the pendulum of power back towards the individual exist today. They just aren't widely known or evenly distributed." —Marty Bent
"Building a portfolio around shitcoins is just a shitfolio." —Saifedean Ammous
"Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney
"It would be a dark, dark world if Bitcoin didn’t exist." —Alex Gladstein
"Bitcoin is a risk asset with a specific set of investment characteristics that become increasingly more attractive the more irresponsible monetary and fiscal policy becomes." —Travis Kling
"Mere inflation — that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices — may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not." —Henry Hazlitt
"Bitcoin isn't about getting your money out of your country. It's about getting your country out of your money." —Farbood
"When I first stumbled upon this Mengerian framework of money, this is when I actually thought it's game over for all the shitcoins out there." —Emil Sandstedt
"In comparison to modern distributed databases, blockchains are slow, ponderous, unnecessarily redundant and overly paranoid." —Dhruv Bansal
"I realised, oh, this ledger is now being maintained on everyone’s computers in real time so no one can freeze it, no one can reverse it, no one can counterfeit, no one can double spend. That’s when it really clicked for me." —Charlie Shrem
"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail." —Hal Finney
"Can Bitcoin be stopped? "Not really, this thing is a beast. As Mises wrote: Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas."" —Trace Mayer
"If nuclear war destroyed half of our planet, [Bitcoin] would continue to live, uncorrupted." —Ralph Merkle
"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos
"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook
"A fixed money supply, or a supply altered only in accord with objective and calculable criteria, is a necessary condition to a meaningful just price of money." —Fr. Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.
"People will be forced to pay with bitcoins, not because of 'the technology', but because no one will accept their worthless fiat for payments." —Pierre Rochard
"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
"Only two things are genuinely scarce: time and bitcoin." —Saifedean Ammous
"Only Bitcoin is the disruptor." —David Bennett
"Decentralization isn't something you slap on to your marketing budget. It's absolutely integral to the whole fucking system." —Matt Odell
"Time is interchangeable with volatility. Antifragile systems feed on volatility, which is why they persist over time. Bitcoin is antifragile money—it thrives amid adversity, stressors, and uncertainty; its voracious appetite for volatility ensures its success over time." —Robert Breedlove
"The world has to adapt to bitcoin, not the other way round." —Herzmeister
"There's Bitcoin and then there's shitcoin." —Warren Davidson
"Money is the blood of a society. It needs to be sound, it needs to be clean, it needs to be pure." —Dominic Frisby
"Money should not be free as in beer, it should be free as in freedom. Libre money, not free money. Bitcoin, not fiat." —Pierre Rochard
"Every time I think I understand Bitcoin, it proves me wrong." —Guy Swann
"Bitcoin is not debt; Bitcoin is not equity. Bitcoin is Bitcoin." —Elisabeth Préfontaine
"By attaching energy to a block, we give it “form”, allowing it to have real weight & consequences in the physical world." —Hugo Nguyen
"Hard money cannot stay niche." —Saifedean Ammous