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“Everyone’s very afraid of being hacked, and, unless you understand the underlying security in all of your accounts, you’re going to have trouble not knowing whether these claims by a robocall are real.”— JunsethJunseth is an OG Bitcoiner and t
“This insatiable demand for energy & compute was…going to fuel the next wave of how society works and interacts together; and I think, 6 years on it’s playing probably faster than even we expected.”— Daniel RobertsDaniel Roberts is the co-found
“Artificial stability brings instability into the system…when you try to push a balloon underwater, you can keep it under water but then the pressure starts building...”— Macro AlfMacro Alf is the founder of The Macro Compass, an investment str
“The people that changed the world were not the activists, they were the entrepreneurs, and in order to be an entrepreneur, you have to not be in jail.”— NVKNVK is the founder of Coinkite and a board member at OpenSats. In this interview, we di
“There is no way back, I think we’ve crossed the event horizon…they’re going to do everything they can to keep it together as best they can, but at the end of the day it all leads to monetary debasement.”— Lawrence LepardLawrence Lepard is an I
“There’s just so much to do just in terms of understanding the code better and fortifying it…sometimes you need to invasively change something in order to make it more scalable...so it’s not ‘don’t ever change the code,’ be conservative and not
“To believe that Bitcoin will stop changing I think is a fallacy, and it means that Bitcoin will die, because…Bitcoin is software and software never stops to evolve.”— CalleJack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin
“To believe that Bitcoin will stop changing I think is a fallacy, and it means that Bitcoin will die, because…Bitcoin is software and software never stops to evolve.”— CalleJack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin
“We have a horrifying shortage of demand for energy, not a shortage of supply whatsoever; we need to have more productive uses for those electrons in a flexible way so that all those revenues can flow back and continue to be reinvested in the b
“These are not two hardened criminals who have been just plotting in secret to launder billions of dollars; these are people who’ve built a powerful privacy tool that never took custody, that fit every regulation and legal framework that we had
“When people try to bring their own views to Bitcoin and say that Bitcoin is an expression of those views, I would just say Bitcoin is an expression of lots of different views, and there’s no one thing that Bitcoin is.”— Bradley RettlerAndrew B
“It’s not a one decade adoption story, it’s a multi-decade, massive trend change in how money works.”— Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research
“If we stick with the financial system as it is, it leads inexorably towards total control of your life…the state having total control over what people spend, how they can spend it, how much they can spend, and what you can buy.”— Alex Gladstei
“Bitcoin is how life should always have been, the cheatcode is fiat money printing…if you print money you get wealthier while other the others who use the money get poorer; but with Bitcoin nobody can print money anymore, and that means the che
“Right now, Lightning is not able to support billions of users around the world…when you add the 3 technologies together: Bitcoin, Lighting, and ecash, you have a solution that can give you incredible levels of privacy and scale to billions of
“I’m not going back to that system ever, I’m going to fight and use my time and energy to move this across the world…and as you start to understand that, more and more people join us and the world moves from our intention to what it should be.”
“What we need to move to is just removing the attention signal as the input to the algorithm and using a value-signal instead; because, then we can still have ranked feeds, but they’re no longer driven by a metric that doesn’t really align with
“If you care about customer harm you wouldn’t put these frictions in place because I can go and buy Bitcoin right now from whoever the hell I want using a VPN and you can’t stop me.”— Freddie NewFreddie New is the Head of Policy at Bitcoin Poli
“People get conspiratorial about this, they observe ‘I’m getting fucked by the system everywhere I turn’...I think the far scarier reality is there’s just no one in charge at that level, we’ve absolutely not designed this thing at it’s highest
“If you take savings, commerce, freedom, and power, that’s the bedrock of civilization; so if you don’t have these things…you’re living in a very poor country.”— Alex GladsteinAlex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundat
“For the first time in the history of Wall St. we can be front-running the institutions and buying this thing and they still can’t do it; their hands are tied, they just can’t do it.”— James LavishJames Lavish is a macro analyst, and Eric Yakes
“Eventually one of these days the price will move $65,000 and you literally won’t notice or care…are you really going to notice a difference between $2.62 million vs $2.68 million in your account? No, you’re going to look at it and go: ‘ah, it’
“We only get this one chance…with Bitcoin to change money for the world, and if we don’t continue to upgrade it then it will simply create another elite.”— VortexVortex is a developer and OG Bitcoin podcaster. In this interview, we look back at
“If all I’m thinking about it is winning this game of money, this finite game, and trying to get as much money as I can right now, I’m losing; I’m playing the wrong game for the wrong environment.”— Mark MossMark Moss is a serial entrepreneur,
“It’s not a game, Bitcoin is life and death for billions of people and there is no one in Venezuela that’s excited about cats on the freakin’ chain; this is a mockery of the seriousness of what people are trying to do here.”— Bitcoin MechanicBi
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