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 "If you want the bitcoin price to be stable, you gotta put your nuts on the table." —Hass McCook 
 "Bitcoin is perhaps the first scarce thing in the world we can say we truly possess." —Jimmy Song 
 "Bitcoin doesn’t care about who you are or what your feelings are. Bitcoin represents equal opportunity to participate in a system not encumbered by our legacy fiat structures." —White Rabbit 
 "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 
 "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 
 "Bitcoin is the most significant achievement for those who agree with Natural Law Theory since the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution." —Marty Bent 
 "Bitcoin will unite a deeply divided country. (and eventually: world)" —Jack Dorsey 
 "First step to understanding Bitcoin: admitting you don't understand Bitcoin." —Jameson Lopp 
 "Honey badger don’t care, honey badger don’t give a fuck." —Randall 
 "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." —Albert Allen Bartlett 
 "Those crashes, these bailouts, are not accidents. And neither is it an accident that there is no financial education in school." —Robert Kiyosaki 
 "Stay humble. Stack sats." —Matt Odell 
 "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." —Eric Hughes 
 "The world has to adapt to bitcoin, not the other way round." —Herzmeister 
 "Bitcoin not having a “community” is a feature." —Rodolfo Novak 
 "Bitcoin fixes you." —Pierre Rochard 
 "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 
 "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 
 "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 
 "In a house of lies, Bitcoin is the exit door." —Not Nate 
 "Masses will not buy bitcoin. Masses will earn it." —Suheb Saubyk 
 "The whole point of Bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on any company to be able to use your own money." —Beautyon 
 "I honestly have no idea how one could look at the world of today, sincerely understand what bitcoin is and reject it." —Erik Cason 
 "Bitcoin isn’t dying, because Bitcoin is an idea whose time has come." —Stephan Livera 
 "Buying bitcoin is an act of sanity in an insane world." —Bitcoin Tina 
 "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 
 "I can remember 12 words. Therefore I am a free man." —Adam Curry 
 "Bitcoin doesn't need saving." —Francis Pouliot 
 "“Diversification” is a fancy way to say “less bitcoin”." —Hodl.exe 
 "Bitcoin is for all of humanity, it is the greatest technical innovation when it comes to sound money." —Trace Mayer 
 "If thugs don't want you to have privacy, you really really should improve your privacy." —Max Hillebrand 
 "Bitcoin does not waste energy — it consumes energy waste." —Conner Brown 
 "I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash." —Milton Friedman 
 "[Bitcoin] is a parachute masked as an adrenaline rush." —Anthony Pompliano 
 "[Bitcoin] is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth." —Allen Farrington 
 "Bitcoin doesn't care about your color." —Isaiah Jackson 
 "Bitcoin is redistribution-proof wealth." —Robert Breedlove 
 "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 
 "We are in the process of repricing the world in sats." —Bitcoin Tina 
 "The end goal is Bitcoin itself." —Erik 
 "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 whole point of Bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on any company to be able to use your own money." —Beautyon 
 "Bitcoin is for all of humanity, it is the greatest technical innovation when it comes to sound money." —Trace Mayer 
 "First step to understanding Bitcoin: admitting you don't understand Bitcoin." —Jameson Lopp 
 "The job of every altcoin is creating a narrative against Bitcoin. And whoever has the best narrative against Bitcoin gets the most ignorant money." —John Carvalho 
 "Thinking in Bitcoin is powerful, but it takes time. It is this mental switch." —Tuur Demeester 
 "Bitcoin is programmed to not care about your demand." —Saifedean Ammous 
 "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 will change us more than we will change it." —Marty Bent 
 "We are all bitcoin." —Hass McCook 
 "We’re building for the next 100 years" —ʟɪɢʜᴛɴɪɴɢ ⚡ ᴋᴏᴀʟᴀ 
 "Bitcoin is simply an opt-in, open-source software with the historically reliable property of making its users wealthy." —Jesse Lawler 
 "Bitcoin is one of the best self-taught personal finance and macroeconomics courses the world has ever known." —Stackthose Sats 
 "The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime. " —Satoshi Nakamoto 
 "[Bitcoin] is one of the first things that we have ever seen that has a truly organic nature. And if it has a true organic nature, guess what: you can not predict its actions, because it falls under the rules of the universe. We have no control over this thing. It's bigger than all of us put together." —David Bennett 
 "This thing is the single most important thing of our lifetime and so it's a worthwhile pursuit to explain to the world what Bitcoin is." —Michael Saylor 
 "I believe that the invention of Bitcoin is the kind of thing that comes around once in a lifetime; perhaps once in many lifetimes." —Yan Pritzker 
 "In our desire for abundance, we’ve vilified scarcity — and in the process eroded our notion of value." —Aleks Svetski 
 "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 is money. Multicoinery is barter. " —Conner Brown 
 "The future is bright. We just have a lot of work to do." —Adam Fiscor 
 "I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop." —Friedrich Hayek 
 "There are only going to be 21 million coins, there are billions of people in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might find it interesting to own a piece of Bitcoin." —Adam Back 
 "Fiat is broken, and you can’t fix it. Bitcoin works, and you can’t break it." —Lina Seiche 
 "Pay Me in Bitcoin is a movement." —Russell Okung 
 "If you don’t have privacy, you’re not a free man" —Max Hillebrand 
 "Trusted third parties are lawyer magnets." —Nick Szabo 
 "Finding Bitcoin was a forcing function for understanding money. " —Andy Edstrom 
 "We know the source code. We know the rules." —Hal Finney 
 "Bitcoin doesn’t care about who you are or what your feelings are. Bitcoin represents equal opportunity to participate in a system not encumbered by our legacy fiat structures." —White Rabbit 
 "Bitcoin isn't about getting your money out of your country. It's about getting your country out of your money." —Farbood 
 "Bullish on bitcoiners." —Matt Odell 
 "We're here to unfuck the money and there's no stopping us. Fix the money, change the world." —White Rabbit 
 "Bitcoin hasn’t yet been displaced in twelve years despite the arrival of over 8,000 competitors." —Lyn Alden 
 "Bitcoin is a tool for freeing humanity from oligarchs and tyrants, dressed up as a get-rich-quick scheme." —Naval Ravikant 
 "Calling Bitcoin money is degrading to Bitcoin." —Knut Svanholm 
 "It's 21 million or death." —Robert Breedlove 
 "[Bitcoin is] not a short term game, it's a long term revolution of our society as a whole." —Justine 
 "Bitcoin is money. Multicoinery is barter. " —Conner Brown 
 "We have something that is pretty organic in nature and very principled in its original design." —Jack Dorsey 
 "Bitcoin is money. Multicoinery is barter. " —Conner Brown 
 "[Bitcoin is] not a short term game, it's a long term revolution of our society as a whole." —Justine 
 "Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney 
 "Money, historically, has been a creature of the market, not a creature of the State. If anything, that is the perversion." —Murad Mahmudov 
 "Bitcoin is a way to start and fight a political revolution without shooting any bullet and without casting any vote." —Giacomo Zucco 
 "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 
 "It's an organism. That's what it is." —Raoul Pal 
 "Based on our understanding of monetary economics, the outcome will be such that most of the value will accrue to one coin and one coin will at the very least be the world reserve currency, and even more than that, the one global money." —Pierre Rochard 
 "Bitcoin is rat poison; it’s just the banks and credit card companies are the rats" —Dan Morehead 
 "It is a crime against your future to not have any Bitcoin exposure yesterday." —Rodolfo Novak 
 "The reason I own bitcoin is BECAUSE the Federal Reserve "isn’t out of tools by a long shot."" —Preston Pysh 
 "Bitcoin is so simple, yet so complex." —Thibaud Maréchal 
 "A fool and their leveraged Bitcoin are soon parted." —Caitlin Long 
 "The whole point of doing ICOs is to get other people's bitcoins. " —Pierre Rochard 
 "Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook 
 "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 
 "I like to call the lightning network a fee aggregation network." —Sergej Kotliar 
 "Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos