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

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.

When there are multiple double-spent versions of the same transaction, one and only one will become valid.

Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.

I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.

Keep your coins, I want change.

German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

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.