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

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.

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

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They’re a captive audience.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn’t do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me – action pictures.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.