“Self-sovereignty in a digital age is impossible when all applications and data are served by a handful of centralized custodians.”

Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.

Liberty is seen as virtuous by most.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

Your life’s work deserves sound money.

In the longterm for Bitcoin, Gox needed to go away.

Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.

Crypto isn’t getting less weird over time.

Bitcoin has been performing ~230% a year for a decade.

Bitcoin is an infinite bounty on the dissolution of fiat.

Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it’s worth at least that much, or it’s worth zero.

Bitcoin has matured beyond the trappings of tradition.

Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.

Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

Restaurants make money off those suffering from hunger, and grief counselors make money off those who have suffered tragic loss.

I don’t think we need to pretend Bitcoin’s price is stable and it’s “everything else” that is volatile.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.