“It’s hard NOT to get that there’s something amazing going on here.”
— @coryklippsten on #Bitcoin
“Banks, governments, and shitcoins are naturally allies contra-#Bitcoin”
— @coryklippsten
“If enough people non-violent protest and move over here’s—move your time and energy—the system changes. I want to build the future I want to see.”
— @JeffBooth on #Bitcoin
“1/3 of all the energy in the world is wasted… #Bitcoin mining is the most competitive industry, competitive commodity… the destiny of it is to migrate to the edge of the grid.”
— @saylor
“#Bitcoin is driving us to find cheaper and cheaper energy and turn it into money.”
— @Breedlove22
“#Bitcoin is the energy buyer of last resort destroying the lender of last resort.”
— @Breedlove22
“One of Satoshi’s key innovations was the difficulty adjustment… What that does is no matter how expensive that energy is, the network can adjust to that new environment.”
— @LynAldenContact on #Bitcoin
“We didn’t have conservation of energy in the digital space prior to #Bitcoin”
— @Breedlove22
“What #Bitcoin does, is it’s the first decentralized agent and registrar… It makes a true timechain where there’s a consistent ledger… It’s a global ledger backed by energy instead of government.”
— @LynAldenContact
“The world that we have now in cyberspace is too weak, too slow… We need to move real energy around.”
— @saylor on #Bitcoin
“The entire premise of economics is scarcity… We have no idea where this is going to take us.”
— @Breedlove22 on #Bitcoin
“Over the last 10,000 years, humans came up with different types of money, and they all failed… #Bitcoin represents the first non-defective money and non-defective monetary system… It represents the singularity and the inflection point for the human race.”
— @saylor
“The personal computer was the decentralization of computing power itself.”
— @boomer_btc
“As businesses start to fail and unemployment goes up, they’re not projecting the lower tax rate from that… You can’t tighten without a collapse of the entire system.”
— @JeffBooth
“As the U.S. dollar gets stronger, the U.S. becomes the only consumer in the world… There’s just no economic way for production to move back to the U.S. without imbalance.”
— @JeffBooth
“The PC became the platform upon which innovation could occur… It empowered people. A guy in his garage could do something now. A guy could start writing code in his room.”
— @boomer_btc
“A monopoly cannot see the creative destruction happening around them… As a central power gets too big, it has to hurt other people. Technology distributes power.”
— @JeffBooth
“Roses are red, violets are blue, in Cryptoland, the yield is you.”
— American HODL
“You can’t know the Matrix, you have to see the Matrix. How do you describe the fiat system to someone? How do you describe the petrodollar system?”
— @LynAldenContact
“The burning dog meme perfectly describes everything that’s going on right now.”
— @NeilJacobs
“I trust people who VICE signal.”
— American HODL
“If you have to keep telling people you’re a good person, you clearly haven’t done the proof of work.”
— @LynAldenContact
“The same technology that allows for peer-to-peer money also allows for peer-to-peer scams… The leveraged it, turned it, and gamified it… We have to push back on that. #Bitcoin has to be fun.”
— @LynAldenContact
“If you have the truth, memes are easier to do.”
— @LynAldenContact
“If someone wants to shitcoin, put some in #Bitcoin—that’s your real thing. The rest is like Vegas…”
— @LynAldenContact
"Because the margins are getting thin, we're going to see natural selection... I think curtailed renewable are finally going to start penciling out... The story we have to tell lawmakers has actually gotten much better."
— @thetrocro at @pacificbitcoin
"We need to figure out what's sexy to politicians."
— @Crypto_Mags on #Bitcoin mining
"Good policy is tech-agnostic. Period."
— @Crypto_Mags
"What we're seeing now is a sovereign debt unwind."
— @DylanLeClair_
"All the models are destroyed... When you manipulate the cost of capital for 40 years, it removes the biodiversity of competition."
— @PrestonPysh
"We're running at a deficit... We have to issue $1.1 trillion in bonds to meet that margin... Your deficit is going to grow. The next year you have to issue more bonds... This breaks the Fed's model."
— @jameslavish
"Why is theft required in money? Nobody votes for inflation."
— @JeffBooth
“#CBDCs cannot work without destroying the standard of living.”
— @JeffBooth
"Following is currency. Attention is currency."
— @MichellePhan
"It starts with being a storyteller... Making information entertaining."
— @MichellePhan on the next generation of #Bitcoin content creators
"When I think of hope, I dont think about America or any country; I think about #Bitcoin. Now hope and opportunity doesn't have to be restricted by land or governments."
— Carla (@thecryptoc0up1e)
"The Fed and others started manipulating paper gold to suppress the gold price to hide inflation."
— @LawrenceLepard
"The web was what really drove the initial GUI adoption... The internet was clunky as all hell in the beginning... I recall quite clearly a lot of friends saying 'this is never going to catch on.' It reminds me of #Bitcoin"
— @LawrenceLepard
Thank you all for all you do. #Bitcoin gives me hope, and so you do.
"The USA has raised rates back to a level that will set rates for the rest of the world right now... I'm afraid it's too late now though... All paths lead to #Bitcoin"
— @FossGregfoss
“#Bitcoin is a purely mathematical protocol; it’s not an internet protocol.”
— @Ben_deWaal
“All I bring to the table is 35 years of mistakes… If you own zero #Bitcoin, you’re taking on an extreme amount of risk.”
— @FossGregfoss
“Having spent my life in tradfi, this is the solution… #Bitcoin doesn’t care. I can talk to an 18 year old or an 80 year old and we can be aligned.”
— @FossGregfoss
“Shoutout to all the kids that have orange-pilled their parents.”
— @camilacampton
“I’ve spent my life around some of the most comfortable, privileged people. Some of them get #Bitcoin, but most of them don’t… My wife’s family spent most of their lives under communism, and they get it right away.”
— @allenf32
“This is for ALL humanity. Not just us in the United States.”
— @camilacampton on #Bitcoin
“When I look at what #Bitcoin really means on a global level, it’s setting up these cellular-type situations that are just going to explode over the next decade.”
— @PrestonPysh
“Humanity is just beautiful. I’m very bullish on humanity.”
— @camilacampton
“I’m going to steal a line from @JeffBooth: you’re going to see 200 years of change in the next 20 years.”
— @FossGregfoss
“There’s not enough love in this world anymore. Everyone is fighting everyone else… That’s why #Bitcoin is so great. If I tell you to buy Bitcoin, I’m telling you I love you. Bitcoin is love.”
— @FossGregfoss
“The future is always somewhat in our hands… People have to build it and do it; this is what we make of it. The future depends on what the people here do.”
— @LynAldenContact
“#Bitcoin wouldn’t be anywhere near as interesting as it is if it wasn’t set in opposition to what we have now.”
— @allenf32
“Everything is a frequency. You have to think about it like a pendulum… Most people are debt slaves… The ownership of everything in the world is consolidated into the hands of very small, few minute controllers.”
— @PrestonPysh
“#Bitcoin is surgically stepping into the digital space where people are manipulating the units of those who are doing the real work.”
— @PrestonPysh
"We haven't missed anything; we're just getting started."
— @camilacampton
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“It’s about education here in Lugano… why it matters, why it was created, why it is empowering people around the world.” — @paoloardoino on @LuganoPlanB initiative & the importance of #Bitcoin
"It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less." -- Paul Volcker
"If the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.'" -- Paul Volcker
"The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy." -- Paul Volcker
🚨🚨The PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA is a freaking ORGANIZER of the #GreenSwanConference 🚨🚨
The global banking cartel wants to take a lesson from China’s totalitarian communist regime & implement #CBDC & social credit systems under the guise of “going green.”
Apparently the CS academics are having a #metoo moment..?
Seems like a pretty bad take to compare [CS academic dudes failing to understand #Bitcoin because they look at it too narrowly] to [worldwide movement of women sharing horrible stories of sexual assault in solidarity]…
I'm going to start collecting the best of the worst bad takes on #Bitcoin in this thread. Here's a real winner to start us off...
"just use USD, EUR or JPY. There is a whole industry called finance that has figured this out like hundreds of years ago."
IMAGINE saying this and being 100% serious... Truly impressive financial privilege 👏
"The titanic is sinking; we're all on it. All you have to do is hop on the ark. #Bitcoin provides a peaceful solution and revolution. What a time to be alive." - @VailshireCap