"Open source software is a meritocracy of ideas, not of people. So people are always talking about "Who controls Bitcoin?" Good ideas control Bitcoin. Not people." —Ben Prentice

"If you want the bitcoin price to be stable, you gotta put your nuts on the table." —Hass McCook

"Stay humble. Stack sats." —Matt Odell

"If thugs don't want you to have privacy, you really really should improve your privacy." —Max Hillebrand

"For money to succeed outside of the State it must be able to withstand the State." —Laser Hodl

"It is rare for first implementations of such broad concepts to do as well as that did, Bitcoin is still here 10 years after it started out." —Whitfield Diffie

"Masses will not buy bitcoin. Masses will earn it." —Suheb Saubyk

"Bitcoin isn’t dying, because Bitcoin is an idea whose time has come." —Stephan Livera

"Bitcoin is like early electricity. Raw, dangerous, seems very volatile and hard to use. With time it'll start to feel safer, easier and normal. Like electricity it will inspire and power new unimaginable industries. And one day we’ll wonder how did we live without it?" —Obi-Wan Kenobit

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

"The path to maximalism is paved with the bones of shitcoins." —Crypto Contagion

"Anyone who understands economics and finance and how markets work will be a maximalist because it is more efficient to have one currency than a bunch of ones." —Peter Todd

"The magic of Bitcoin isn’t the transfer of money to someone 10,000 miles away – it is the transfer of money to someone 10,000 days away." —Michael Saylor

""Bitcoin Maximalism" is the shitcoiner's term for "honesty"" —Knut Svanholm

"Bitcoin is diamonds without the blood. Cash without the corruption. Gold without the weight." —George Mekhail

"[Bitcoin is] sort of like this peaceful Manhatten project. All the smartest people are coming together, from across languages, from around the world, to build this sovereign and arguably private money project. That's amazing." —Alex Gladstein

"Bitcoin isn't about getting your money out of your country. It's about getting your country out of your money." —Farbood

"[Bitcoin is] not a short term game, it's a long term revolution of our society as a whole." —Justine

"Bitcoin is a way to start and fight a political revolution without shooting any bullet and without casting any vote." —Giacomo Zucco

"Bitcoin is rat poison; it’s just the banks and credit card companies are the rats" —Dan Morehead