Bitcoin citations by Nakamoto:
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System enables majority consensus without requiring anyone to trust anyone else.
In Bitcoin, "everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust.
I hope [people] can make the distinction that this is the first time I know of that we're trying a non-trust-based system.
The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to generating bitcoins instead.
[We will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
Bitcoin citations by Matonis:
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We should "resist digital money unless anonymous" and don't give up paper cash if the future is even more traceable and intrusive.
Give up the privacy and untracability elements of the $100 bill and we will give you the nirvana of a digital, cashless society.
Individuals should have freedom from money being used to track identity.
Bitcoin citations by Gwern:
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It may be that Bitcoin’s greatest virtue is not its deflation, nor its microtransactions, but its viral distributed nature; it can wait for its opportunity. 'If you sit by the bank of the river long enough, you can watch the bodies of your enemies float by.
Bitcoin citations by Andresen:
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Bitcoin is really a pure money. It's a store of value and a means of exchange and that's all it is. It's almost a plutonic ideal of what money is, in that there is nothing backing it beyond the fact that it's useful as a money.
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