"For me, bitcoin changes absolutely everything. What I'm drawn to the most about it is the ethos, what it represents."..."I don't think there is anything more enabling around the world." -Jack Dorsey
@jack@gladstein "Whatever I can do, whatever my companies can do to make [Bitcoin] accessible to everyone, that is what I will do for the rest of my life." -@jack
@jack "We don't need the financial institutions that we have today. We have one that is thriving ... that is owned by the community." -@jack
@jack "Finding developers on the continent of Africa, enabling them to do work without them having to do another job" -@Jack
(On Jay-Z Fund Vision. A focus of Dorsey and Jay-Z)
"Jay might have 99 problems but being a bank ain't one" @gladstein
@jack@gladstein "Go to Nigeria for one day and see the struggle that people have to put up with, with their government and their money."-@jack
Referring to what western academics/economists miss.
@jack@gladstein “This is going to be used by more and more people and my belief in bitcoin is that it is an amazing asset… but you need to be able to transact with it everyday. So, the only reason Square got into Bitcoin is to that end.” -@jack
@jack@gladstein "By creating a new [social media] platform ... inspired entirely by Bitcoin, we want to do the same thing for Twitter. I know you don't believe me, I know you're calling me 'liar.' I'm going to prove it to you." -@jack
@jack@gladstein "There is nothing else that compares to [Bitcoin]. We have no interest in anything else" "All the other coins to me do not factor in at all." -@jack
@jack@gladstein "What are your thoughts on financial freedom and privacy in a world that is moving beyond paper money?"-@gladstein
"We have a much better alternative in Bitcoin, we have designs for that sort of privacy and freedom within it" @Jack
@jack@gladstein "Miners have to make a profit and getting cheap renewable energy maximizes their profit." @jack
On energy FUD
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@ln_strike@JackMallers "I want to have a family someday. I want that family to have a house that I own, that's my property... Unless I'm getting a 10% raise, every single year, I'm getting no fucking chance of owning a house." -Jack Mallers
"People have values, people have desires to make the world better... so making a moral case is much more about showing the product of the possibilities of what Bitcoin is instead of saying it is good for you because 'Number Go Up.'" -Jimmy Song
"I would say the X Games, that was the first time we ever had an audience for skateboarding... That's when there was a tipping point of skateboarding is here to stay." -Tony Hawk
@tonyhawk@Disruptepreneur "Bitcoin has taken over Miami... This is just a moment where Paris Hilton DJ'd at a Bitcoin conference... the audience is just Bitcoiners of every culture and every background. It's like, this is part of the zeitgeist." -Jeremy Gardner
@tonyhawk@Disruptepreneur "I think that's what I loved most about skateboarding, there was always something new to learn.. I was still living the dream, I was skating for a living... it was a meager living but it was for a passion." -Tony Hawk
@CynthiaMLummis@WarrenDavidson@AllanStevo “If we don’t protect private wallets someone is going to try to ban them...I wish people were as adamant about protecting the right to privacy as they were about the 2nd Amendment, the right to bear arms.” -Congressman Warren Davidson
"I think we have reached a point where a straight up state attack against bitcoin would fail." -Francis Pouliot
What To Do When Your Country Bans Bitcoin with Alejandro Machado, Boaz Sobrado, Francis Pouliot, Matt Odell & Hector Rosekrans
"Regulators should realize that if we get financial sovereignty into the hands of people oppressed by authoritarian regimes... they will be able to push back against this oppression" -Matt Odell
"I am not a huge fan of the narrative that says, let the government do whatever it wants and we will be fine because we simply do not have the tools for that (yet)" -Francis Pouliot
*If you win the auction and you're not at the conference, we will ship the deck to you.
Each unique deck comes with an @infiniteobjects that plays the looping image from the #NFT certificate of authenticity. (Yes, each deck comes with an NFT minted on @Raretoshi)