“Only people trying to create new coins would need to run network nodes.”

Bitcoin addresses you generate are kept forever. A bitcoin address must be kept to show ownership of anything sent to it. If you were able to delete a bitcoin address and someone sent to it, the money would be lost.

The Bitcoin network might actually reduce spam by diverting zombie farms to generating bitcoins instead.

You could say coins are issued by the majority. They are issued in a limited, predetermined amount.

The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.

Bitcoin isn’t currently practical for very small micropayments.

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.

Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.

The heat from your computer is not wasted if you need to heat your home.

Subscription sites that need some extra proof-of-work for their free trial so it doesn’t cannibalize subscriptions could charge bitcoins for the trial.

Bitcoins have no dividend or potential future dividend, therefore not like a stock. More like a collectible or commodity.

Bitcoin generation should end up where it’s cheapest. Maybe that will be in cold climates where there’s electric heat, where it would be essentially free.

For greater privacy, it’s best to use bitcoin addresses only once.

Bitcoin would be convenient for people who don’t have a credit card or don’t want to use the cards they have.

When someone tries to buy all the world’s supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes.

If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

Imagine if gold turned to lead when stolen.

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.

But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.

The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.