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

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.

By embracing our industrial ascent as a whole, one may find some peace.

Crypto is in its 4th inning of disrupting finance, and its 1st inning of disrupting media.

It only took 12 years of Bitcoin being the greatest investment in human history before the financial advisors began timidly introducing it to their clients.

Government may only give that which it steals from your neighbor, whether today or tomorrow.

You can believe in private property or national borders with logical consistency. But not both.

Private money, meet private compute.

Until bitcoin came along, the *character* of money was left undiscussed.

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.

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.