Now, even if someone does not have the drawbacks of decades-long experience and mental models with a specific asset class, it is still very hard to understand Bitcoin.
Why? Because Bitcoin is the intersection of many, many different fields.
To truly understand Bitcoin, there is no other way than being a polymath.
Even if one has made it as far to (a) realize Bitcoin is something completely new and solely using existing heuristics and mental models will not work and (b) with Bitcoin, more than anything else, we do not know what we do not know — understanding still requires a very broad set of competences.
The correct approach to understand when one starts going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole is therefore to assume one knows nothing and any experience and insight one has from previous aspects of life brings very little to the table.
First principles thinking is required. We can, however, try to define a little deeper what Bitcoin is. Below is listed some different ways of wrapping one’s head around Bitcoin.
Not an exhaustive list.
A living organism
Bitcoin is Free and Open Source software. It is not a piece of IP owned by a centralized joint-stock company that needs to optimize for the bottom line of the next quarter and is incapable of cannibalizing itself. Since the Bitcoin whitepaper was released and the genesis block was mined, we have seen an explosion of experiments, ideas and creative geniuses get involved in Bitcoin and crypto as a whole. To think of Bitcoin as a living, technological organism that adjusts, develops and constantly changes to survive can be useful.
A religion
Money, as many have learned and realized in recent decade, is just a social construction we are all part of. The value therefore comes from the amount of true believers.
Continuing this line of thinking, one could describe the religion as consisting of:
Prophet: Satoshi. No longer present. Impossible to ask questions.
Convictions: Decentralization.
Rituals: Running nodes. Mining. Hodling.
Holy scriptures: Bitcoin whitepaper. As with all holy scriptures, people interpret them in their own way.
Sacred objects: Genesis block, lowercase bitcoin
Sects: Different interpretations resulting in different factions/sects: small blockers, big blockers, etc.
An emerging economy
The consensus protocol can be thought of as the constitution
The society as the constituency (users on the demand-side; miners on the supply-side)
Core developers as the executive department who write the code and execute on the strategy, but amendments to the protocol (i.e., constitution) require approval from the constituency)
The native token is the internal currency
The investors underwrite the currency
Additionally, many one-liners and memes exist to describe Bitcoin. Not an exhaustive list.
Sound money
Digital gold
“An insurance policy against an Orwellian future”
“A tool for freeing humanity from oligarchs and tyrants, dressed up as a get-rich-quick scheme”
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Bitcoin is not Abracadabra… but Bitcoin can be Avada Kedavra for the current Banking system!
Bitcoin is not Magic… but it can be for Muggles!
Bitcoin is not an “Investment” … but educating yourself about bitcoin can be!
Bitcoin is not an “Investment”… but knowing the basics and being educated about it, lowers the chances of loosing your hard earned money!
Bitcoin is not an “Investment”… but staking Sats proved to be a preety good Strategy in the Long Term!
Bitcoin is not digital money… but it’s ons of it’s first applications!
Bitcoin is not money… but is Money for the Internet!
Bitcoin is not PRICE !!!
Bitcoin is not PRICE… but the market is driven mostly by FUD & FOMO people
Fear Uncertainty Doubt
bring the market Down
Fear Of Missing Out
bring the market Up
Bitcoin is not a “Get Rich Quick Scheme” and the one’s that got rich were the one’s that were there from the begining…
Bitcoin is not voodoo people, magic people… but a bunch of smart geeks & nerds that support the bitcoin’s philosophy and what it stands for…
Bitcoin is not under no juridstiction… but it is a global p2p network of like-minded people that with the power of their equipment sustain, mantain and make the bitcoin network stronger and more decentralized!
Bitcoin is not a Coin… but an entry in a digital ledger!
Bitcoin is not illegal activity money… but bitcoin can be used in such activity… Reports show that FIAT is still the No. #1 choice for “Evil Doers” as it doens’t have an public, open and visible ledger … Duh…
Bitcoin is not evil… but bitcoin can be used to do evil! As does a Pen! It can be used to do evil! How, you would ask? If I take this ✏ and stick it up your a… who is Evil ?!? The One who invented the pen? The Pen? Me? Your a.. cause it was in the way 🤣 Perspective is a matter of opinion…
Bitcoin is not News… but instead read pools, github, exchanges, wallets… They are the ones that pave the way where bitcoin could, should or would go!
Bitcoin is not DEAD… It was already declared Dead 441 times!
1 – Bitcoin consumes too much electricity, they don’t understand POW!
2 – Bitcoin isn’t a government backed currency, you should ask who backs their government… If the answer is the Army…
3 – Bitcoin isn’t backed by gold like the the US$… Neither is the $ since ’71
4 – Bitcoin isn’t real because I can’t see it… 80% of world’s money is Digital…
5 – Bitcoin isn’t a store of value as good as Gold is… Gold had thousands of years to prove that, bitcoin only 13… give it time! It already proved a lot !!!
6 – Bitcoin’s inventor is annonymous and can’t be trusted… Who invented money then? How do money come up into existance?
7 – Bitcoin will never be largely accepted because it isn’t issued by a government… You know what else wasn’t issued by no government ? Cars, Electricity, Steam Engine, Facebook, Uber, Google, Amazon, etc bla bla bla
8 – Bitcoin can’t be a currency cause I can’t buy anything with it… I think I have shared a list with places that you can buy things with bitcoin…Quite a few!!!
9 – Whales… Beware of yapidi yap of whales cause they say one and do the opposite 🙂 😉 !!!
9 – Bitcoin is not this, bitcoin is not that but they all swarm around the bee’s honeypot as if it were honey 🤣🤣🤣
I forgot…In the meantime, little unsignificant countries like El Salvador, mine bitcoin with 🌋 !!!
And still newspapers, investors that bite their whatever not having invested when it was under $1, and a hole portion of the world are all saying…
Etc bla bla bla Yapidi Yapidi Yap
Never Forget The Golden Rules:
Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto!!!
Don’t Trust, Verify!!!
Don’t Believe, Do your own Resesearch and due diligence!!!
Save your Wallet’s Mnemonic Phrase in at least 3 places for safe-keeping!!!
WE ARE SATOSHI
When you’re ready…Timothy C. MayHal Finney
Poem of the Legacy
From the ashes of the long forgotten past, A bright mind wrote a code that would for ever last… A code so powerful and strong, That would change the world for oh so long…
The code he wrote and set it free, For the humankind legacy to be… To change the lives of future generations to come, He wrote the code and he was gone…
Oh, bright mind your legacy will last, For generations to come and be thankful about the past… Nobody knows who you might be, Some do and say Kudos to You for Ethernity!
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Bitcoin block rewards are new bitcoins awarded to cryptocurrency miners for being the first to solve a complex math problem and creating a new block of verified bitcoin transactions.
The miners use networks of computers to do this, and every time a new block is created it is verified by all the other competing miners. Then a new math problem is introduced and the miners start over.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
A block reward refers to the number of bitcoins you get if you successfully mine a block of the currency.
The amount of the reward halves after the creation of every 210,000 blocks, or roughly every four years.
The amount is expected to hit zero around 2140.
Understanding Block Rewards
Block Reward Halving
The block reward provides an incentive for bitcoin miners to process transactions made with the cryptocurrency. Creating an immutable record of these transactions is vital for bitcoin to work as intended.
The blockchain is like a decentralized bank ledger—one that can’t be altered after being created. The miners are needed to verify the transactions and keep this ledger up to date. Block rewards, and to a lesser extent, transaction fees, are their payment for doing so.
Bitcoin was designed so that new bitcoins are created at a consistent pace. So the difficulty of the math problem is adjusted every two weeks to ensure a steady output of new bitcoins—roughly one block of transactions every 10 minutes.
Bitcoin’s Block Rewards Vs. Ethereum’s
Ethereum, bitcoin’s main competitor as a cryptocurrency, also relies on block rewards to provide incentives to miners. With Ethereum, the reward is a digital token called “ether,” which is rewarded each time a miner succeeds in providing the mathematical proof of a new block. As with bitcoin, miners are also awarded a transaction fee, known as a “gas” fee.
Unlike with bitcoin, there is no limit on the number of Ethereum ether tokens that can be created, and they are created at a much faster pace—in seconds, versus about 10 minutes. So the total number of blocks in the Ethereum chain is larger than in the bitcoin chain.
The Future of Bitcoin Block Rewards
To limit inflation, bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto designed bitcoin to ultimately have only 21 million bitcoins.
This is why the size of bitcoin block rewards is halved after the creation of every 210,000 blocks, which takes around four years.
At bitcoin’s inception in 2009, each block reward was worth 50 BTC.
In May 2020, the block reward was halved a third time to 6.25 BTC.
And as of May 2021, there were already 18.7 million bitcoins in existence, or nearly 90% of the total planned supply.
Ultimately, the block reward is scheduled to reach zero around May 2140, but mining will likely no longer be profitable long before that date is reached.
As of April 2039, about 99.6% of bitcoins will already have been issued, and the block reward will be just 0.19531250 bitcoin.
Along the way, transaction fees are expected to become the primary incentive for bitcoin miners
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The first ever bitcoin transaction from one person to another, on 2009-01-12 at 04:30 used Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK), when Satoshi Nakamoto sent coins to Hal Finney in Block 170. P2PK is no longer used … Continue reading Block 170 – First ever bitcoin transaction→
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How can I calculate how many hashes I generate per second?
I have a function which generates hashes from a string:
string GenerateHash(string plainText);
I generate as many hashes as possible with 4 threads.
How do I calculate how many hashes (or megahashes) I generate per second?
Your problem breaks down nicely into 3 separate tasks
Sharing a single count variable across threads
Benchmarking thread completion time
Calculating hashes per/second
Sharing a single count variable across threads
public static class GlobalCounter { public static int Value { get; private set; } public static void Increment() { Value =GetNextValue(Value); } private static int GetNextValue(int curValue) { returnInterlocked.Increment(ref curValue); } public static void Reset() { Value = 0; } }
Before you spin off the threads call GlobalCounter.Reset and then in each thread (after each successful hash) you would call GlobalCounter.Increment – using Interlocked.X performs atomic operations of Value in a thread-safe manner, it’s also much faster than lock.
Parallel.ForEach will block until all threads have finished
Calculating hashes per second
... sw.Stop(); var hashesPerSecond = GlobalCounter.Value / sw.Elapsed.Seconds;
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“ It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on.
If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine. ”
Get some in case it catches on
“ In this sense, it’s more typical of a precious metal.
Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes.
As the number of users grows, the value per coin increases.
It has the potential for a positive feedback loop; as users increase, the value goes up, which could attract more users to take advantage of the increasing value. ”
Potential for a positive feedback loop
“ Maybe it could get an initial value circularly as you’ve suggested, by people foreseeing its potential usefulness for exchange. (I would definitely want some)
Maybe collectors, any random reason could spark it.
I think the traditional qualifications for money were written with the assumption that there are so many competing objects in the world that are scarce, an object with the automatic bootstrap of intrinsic value will surely win out over those without intrinsic value.
But if there were nothing in the world with intrinsic value that could be used as money, only scarce but no intrinsic value, I think people would still take up something. (I’m using the word scarce here to only mean limited potential supply) ”
“ A rational market price for something that is expected to increase in value will already reflect the present value of the expected future increases. “
Rational market price
” In your head, you do a probability estimate balancing the odds that it keeps increasing. ”
Probability
“ I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume. ”
In 20 Years
“ Bitcoins have no dividend or potential future dividend, therefore not like a stock.
More like a collectible or commodity.“
Collectible vs Commodity
” [Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force monopolies ellided.]
You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.
Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own. “
Pure P2P networks
” It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly.
I’m better with code than with words though. “
Libertarian Viewpoint
” The proof-of-work is a Hashcash style SHA-256 collision finding.
It’s a memoryless process where you do millions of hashes a second, with a small chance of finding one each time.
The 3 or 4 fastest nodes’ dominance would only be proportional to their share of the total CPU power.
Anyone’s chance of finding a solution at any time is proportional to their CPU power.
There will be transaction fees, so nodes will have an incentive to receive and include all the transactions they can.
Nodes will eventually be compensated by transaction fees alone when the total coins created hits the pre-determined ceiling. “
Transactions Fees
” Right, it’s ECC digital signatures.
A new key pair is used for every transaction.
It’s not pseudonymous in the sense of nyms identifying people, but it is at least a little pseudonymous in that the next action on a coin can be identified as being from the owner of that coin.”
Pseudonymous
Bitcoin is a new electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
It’s completely decentralized with no server or central authority
New electronic cash system
Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins.
It’ll be distributed to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half every 4 years
first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins
next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins
next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins
next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins etc…
When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if needed.
It’s based on open market competition, and there will probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.
Open Market Competition
” I would be surprised if 10 years from now we’re not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won’t inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet.
It could get started in a narrow niche like reward points, donation tokens, currency for a game or micropayments for adult sites.
Initially it can be used in proof-of-work applications for services that could almost be free but not quite.
POW applications
It can already be used for pay-to-send e-mail.
The send dialog is resizeable and you can enter as long of a message as you like.
It’s sent directly when it connects.
The recipient doubleclicks on the transaction to see the full message.
If someone famous is getting more e-mail than they can read, but would still like to have a way for fans to contact them, they could set up Bitcoin and give out the IP address on their website. “
Pay-to-Send Email
“Send X bitcoins to my priority hotline at this IP and I’ll read the message personally.”
Send bitcoin
You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things. You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government.
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The first ever bitcoin transaction from one person to another, on 2009-01-12 at 04:30 used Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK), when Satoshi Nakamoto sent coins to Hal Finney in Block 170. P2PK is no longer used … Continue reading Block 170 – First ever bitcoin transaction→
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Open Source JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator
A Bitcoin wallet is as simple as a single pairing of a Bitcoin address with its corresponding Bitcoin private key. Such a wallet has been generated for you in your web browser and is displayed above.
To safeguard this wallet you must print or otherwise record the Bitcoin address and private key. It is important to make a backup copy of the private key and store it in a safe location. This site does not have knowledge of your private key. If you are familiar with PGP you can download this all-in-one HTML page and check that you have an authentic version from the author of this site by matching the SHA256 hash of this HTML with the SHA256 hash available in the signed version history document linked on the footer of this site. If you leave/refresh the site or press the “Generate New Address” button then a new private key will be generated and the previously displayed private key will not be retrievable. Your Bitcoin private key should be kept a secret. Whomever you share the private key with has access to spend all the bitcoins associated with that address. If you print your wallet then store it in a zip lock bag to keep it safe from water. Treat a paper wallet like cash.
Add funds to this wallet by instructing others to send bitcoins to your Bitcoin address.
Check your balance by going to blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com and entering your Bitcoin address.
Spend your bitcoins by going to blockchain.info and sweep the full balance of your private key into your account at their website. You can also spend your funds by downloading one of the popular bitcoin p2p clients and importing your private key to the p2p client wallet. Keep in mind when you import your single key to a bitcoin p2p client and spend funds your key will be bundled with other private keys in the p2p client wallet. When you perform a transaction your change will be sent to another bitcoin address within the p2p client wallet. You must then backup the p2p client wallet and keep it safe as your remaining bitcoins will be stored there. Satoshi advised that one should never delete a wallet.
Six CPU Cores. 44 ASIC Cores. 500GB NVMe Based SSD Drive. Quiet. Less than 200 Watts of Power. Made in the USA. This is what the Future of Bitcoin looks like.
FutureBit Apollo BTC is the world’s first vertically integrated platform bringing the full power of Bitcoin and it’s mining infrastructure in a small, quiet, easy to use desktop device designed for everyday people.
We have iterated and learned much from our first Apollo product. We realized early on that we focused too much on the mining aspect, and not enough on the software, applications, and services that run Bitcoin. Too many of these services have moved to online centralized websites, and many users have given up on running the core software that powers Bitcoin.
This must change, as Bitcoin will not continue to be the free, un-censorable, decentralized system it is today if only a few control the mining that powers it, and the nodes that control it.
At the heart of the new Apollo BTC product is a revamped SBC (Single Board Computer), that is as powerful as any consumer grade desktop system and can run almost any Bitcoin Application natively on the device 24/7. Take it out of the Box, plug it in, power it on, and you are already running a full Bitcoin node without needing to do anything.
Install a wallet of your choice, use any hardware wallet, run BTCPayServer, run a block explorer, run a Lightning Node. All of this is possible with our six core ARM based CPU with 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB NVMe drive that can easily store a FULL non pruned Bitcoin Node. It can power through a Full Node Sync in under 48 hours, which is a record for a device of its class! This is almost an order of magnitude faster than any Raspberry Pi 4 based Node.
On top of this we have taken our 6 years of experience building ASIC mining devices, and engineered the only American Made TeraHash range Bitcoin mining device that can be silent on your desk, mine Bitcoin in the background 24/7, and only use the power of one light bulb to do it.
We did this with our optimized PCB design that has carefully placed all 44 hash cores underneath our custom cold-forged aluminum induction heatsink, which draws up to 200 Watts of heat away from the device with our new nearly silent 25mm fan. This results in the Apollo BTC in Turbo Mode being just as quiet as the Apollo LTC in Eco Mode!
Like our previous products, we are super proud that we can continue manufacturing the Apollo BTC in the USA, and are now the only USA based company that delivers Bitcoin ASIC products with a supply chain whole owned in the western hemisphere (no more reliance on Chinese based ASICS, and their willingness to only sell to large farms and the highest bidder).
OPTIONS
Full Apollo Package: This is our Full Package option that comes with everything you need in the box. The Apollo BTC Unit with our latest controller built in, and our 200W Power supply with power cable.
Full Apollo Package NO Power Supply: We are also offering the Full Package with no power supply for people that want the plug-n-play experience but have spare 12v ATX power supply.
Standard: This option is ONLY the Apollo ASIC Miner, with no controller or power supply. Our new hashboard has a micro USB port, and can be used as a USB device. The Full Apollo Node can control multiple standard units through its USB ports. We wanted to give our customers an option to expand their hash power in a cost effective way. If you already have a Raspberry Pi, or Linux/Windows Desktop Computer and a power supply with two PCIE power ports you can also control our Standard unit in this way with our stand alone miner software (please note this setup will be for more advanced users, and the software will be command line based on launch).
Standard + Power Supply: Same as our Standard unit above, but comes with our 200W Power supply. This is a plug and play solution if you already have a Full Apollo Package. Take it out of the box, plug in the power supply, plug in the micro USB cable to the back of your Full Apollo BTC and it will automatically recognize the second hashboard and start mining!
Compact All-In-One Desktop Bitcoin System (4x6x4in) that mines Bitcoin and any SHA256 based crypto (Bitcoin Cash etc).
Powerful 6 ARM Core CPU with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 500GB NVMe SSD (NOT included in the Standard or Standard + package).
Comes Pre-Installed with a Bitcoin node, and you can install almost any Bitcoin Application
Very wide range of operation modes with preset ECO (quiet) mode, BALANCED, and TURBO mode.
2-3.8 TH/s of SHA256 performance per miner (+/- 5%)
125 Watts in ECO mode, and 200 Watts in TURBO * +/- 10%
Can be used as a full Desktop computer with a monitor keyboard and mouse (not included), or through our Web UI
Connect almost any peripheral with our USB 3.0 ports, USB C port, HDMI, AC Wifi, and Bluetooth
Clocks and Power is fully customizable by user with easy to use interface
Hashboard now monitors both voltage and power draw for accurate measurements*
Custom designed cold forged hexagonal pin heatsink with leading thermal performance for the quietest ASIC miner in operation!
1k-5k RPM Quiet Dual Ball Bearing Fan with automatic thermal management with onboard temperature sensor
Controlled via local connection on a web browser similar to antminers. You can simply set it up via smartphone browser. No crazy driver installs, hard to use miner software or scripts needed.
Two Six Pin PCIE power connectors for wide-range of power draw
Custom Designed all Aluminum case
Ships with our own custom built 200W 94% efficient PSU and is ready to run out of the box! (Does NOT come with Standard package).
Requirements:
Router with an Ethernet cable for initial setup OR Monitor with keyboard and mouse
At least a 250 watt 12v power supply with two 6 Pin PCIE connector is required (unless you order our packages that come with our power supply). This is the same connector used by all modern GPUs. Please note even standard units NEED a power supply, they cant be powered through the USB port on the full package unit.
*all power ratings posted are the miners 12v power consumption. Due to the wide range of third party 120-240v power supplies that can be used, your power draw will be slightly more depending on how efficient your PSU is.
” It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way.
But somehow the universe smiles on encryption.”
Julian Assange
The universe smiles on encryption
” The innovation is that BTC is hard to shut down. […]
Designed from the ground up to survive under the most adversarial conditions. “
Hasu
Bitcoin is hard to shut down
” Bitcoin is the most successful privacy coin to date. “
Pierre Rochard
Most successful privacy coin to date
” Bitcoin is a mathematical miracle. “
Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder)
Mathematical miracle
” Bitcoin is a technological innovation that happens once a species. “
Trace Mayer
Technological innovation that happens once in a species
” Bitcoin doesn’t care about who you are or what your feelings are.
Bitcoin represents equal opportunity
to participate in a system
not encumbered by
our legacy fiat structures. “
White Rabbit
Participate in a system not encumbered by FIAT
” We’re here to unfuck the money and there’s no stopping us.
Fix the money,
change the world. “
White Rabbit
Fix the Money, Change the World
” Hardly anybody actually
understands money. “
Nick Szabo
Nobody understands money
” When you have a disruptive technology,
they call it a category killer.
Bitcoin is a serial killer –
it’s going to go through
40 or 50 different industries. “
Dan Morehead
Bitcoin is a serial killer
” It’s 21 million or death.”
Robert Breedlove
21 million or death
” It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
In case it catches on
” Trusted third parties
are security holes. “
Nick Szabo
Trusted third parties
” There are only going to be
21 million coins,
there are billions of people
in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might
find it interesting to
own a piece of Bitcoin.”
Adam Back
21 Million Coins
” I think it’s essential for a program of this nature to be open source. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Open Source
” SHA-256 is very strong. It’s not like the incremental step from MD5 to SHA1.
It can last several decades unless there’s some massive breakthrough attack. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Sha-256
” Code mixed with robust game theory is superior to hierarchical command and control. “
ℭoinsure
Code superior to hierarchical command and control
” Given that money is one half of every commercial transaction and that whole civilizations literally rise and fall based on the quality of their money, we are talking about an awesome power, one that flies under the cover of night. “
Ron Paul
Money… an awesome power
” The world has to adapt to bitcoin, not the other way round. “
Herzmeister
The world has to adapt to bitcoin
” When I first bought bitcoin it took me two years of speculation to understand what Bitcoin really was.
But once I fully had a grasp of it, it was life altering. “
Russell Okung
Bitcoin is life altering
” Many countries stand to gain from Bitcoin’s adoption as it would remove their dependence on the US dollar and provide them with a feasible alternative. “
Misir Mahmudov
Bitcoin a feasible alternative to the US $
” Bitcoin is a optimist bet on the future, a bet on human ingenuity.
Gold is a pessimist bet on the past and, often a bet the end of civilization. “
Rodolfo Novak
Bitcoin a bet on Human Ingenuity
” Everyone has got to believe in something.
Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable. “
Hass McCook
Believe in something verifiable and unforgeable
” Open source software is a meritocracy of ideas, not of people.
So people are always talking about “Who controls Bitcoin?”
Good ideas control Bitcoin.
Not people.”
Ben Prentice
Good ideeas control Bitcoin
“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently. “
Kim Neunert
Bitcoin a seed of hope
” Bitcoin has an inescapable, unavoidable, and omnipotent magnetism for the brightest and most revolutionary minds on the planet.
I’ve never witnessed anything like it. “
Brandon Bridge
Bitcoin’s magnetism
” This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily.
You want it to be very difficult to change history.
The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive. “
Jimmy Song
Difficult to change history
” Bitcoin is like gold but with this magical ability that you
can teleport it.”
Vijay Boyapati
Bitcoin magical ability to teleport it
” Can Bitcoin be stopped?
“Not really, this thing is a beast.
As Mises wrote:
Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas. “
Trace Mayer
Bitcoin cannot be stopped
“I’m not here to fix Bitcoin.”
Michael Saylor
Fix bitcoin
” Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest an individual can make against the current economic system. “
Luc Dossis
Buying bitcoin is the most powerful protest
” These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow.
And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. “
Bruce Schneier
Maximums that thermodynamics will allow
” Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost
overturn governments. “
Charles Lee
Cryptocurrency can almost overturn governments
” Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. “
Rick Falkvinge
Bitcoin is the email for the postal industry
” I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. “
Peter Thiel
Bitcoin has the potential to change the world
” Bitcoin is the most important invention in the history of the world since the Internet. “
Roger Ver
Bitcoin the most important invention in the history since the Internet
” Gold is a great way to preserve wealth, but it is hard to move around. You do need some kind of alternative and Bitcoin fits the bill. “
Jim Rickards
Bitcoin fits the bill as a way to preserve wealth
” You can’t stop things like Bitcoin.
It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust.
World governments will have to readjust. “
John McAfee
Bitcoin will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust
” I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the function of the government… is actually pretty cool. “
Al Gore
An algorithm replaces the function of government
“People have made fortunes off Bitcoin, some have lost money.
It is volatile, but people make money off of volatility too.”
Richard Branson
Some lost, some won with Bitcoin
” The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value…
Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that. “
Eric Schmidt
Create something wich is not duplicable
“PayPal had these goals of creating a new currency.
We failed at that…
I think Bitcoin has succeeded on the level of a new currency, but the payment system is lacking.”
Peter Thiel
Bitcoin succeeded as a new currency
” As people move into Bitcoin for payments and receipts they stop using US Dollars, Euros and Chinese Yuan which in the long-term devalues these currencies. “
John McAfee
Bitcoin devalues $ € ¥
” Bitcoin is the Currency of Resistance…
If Satoshi had released Bitcoin10 years earlier,9/11 would
never have happened. “
Max Keiser
Bitcoin the currency of resistance
“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. “
Peter Diamandis
Bitcoin is a smart currency
“The internet is going to be one of
the major forces for reducing
the role of government.
One thing that’s missing but that
will soon be developed,
is a reliable e-cash.”
Milton Friedman
E-Cash
” Bitcoin is a technological
tour de force. “
Bill Gates
Tour de force
” If you don’t believe it or don’t get it,
I don’t have the time
to try to convince you,
sorry. “
Satoshi Nakamoto
Don’t have the time
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
WikiLeaks
” Lost coins only make everyone
else’s coins worth slightly more.
Think of it as a donation to everyone.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Lost Coins
” In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee
will become the maincompensation
for [mining] nodes.
I’m sure that in 20 years there
will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Transaction fee
” As computers get faster and the total computing power applied to creating bitcoins increases, the difficulty increases proportionally to keep the total new production constant.
Thus, it is known in advance how many new bitcoins will be created every year in the future.
Coins have to get initially distributed somehow, and a constant rate seems like the best formula.”
Satoshi Nakamoto
Coins distribution at a constant rate is the best formula
” Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without
a government, something
necessary and imperative. “
Nassim Taleb
Bitcoin a currency without a government
” Those who believe in Bitcoin also believe in cleverness. “
Arif Naseem
Believe in bitcoin believe in cleverness
” Bitcoin is the most stellar and
most useful system of
mutual trustever devised. “
Arif Naseem
Bitcoin a system of mutual trust
Cryptocurrency is freedom,
Banking is slavery. “
Arif Naseem
Cryptocurrency is freedom
” Our basic thesis for bitcoin is
that it is better than gold. “
Tyler Winklevoss
Bitcoin better than gold
” I think the whole narrative
of blockchain without bitcoin
will amount to very little. “
Fred Ehrsam
Blockchain without bitcoin
” Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments. “
Leon Louw
Bitcoin world’s most important developments
” Bitcoin is a very exciting development, it might lead to a world currency.
I think over the next decade it will grow to become one of the most important ways to pay for things and transfer assets. “
Kim Dotcom (CEO of MegaUpload)
Bitcoin might lead to a world currency
” Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money. “
Paul Buchheit (Creator of Gmail)
Bitcoin the TCP/IP of money
” We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. “
Tyler Winklevoss (Co-inventor of Facebook)
Mathematical framework free of politics and human error
” I really like Bitcoin.
I own Bitcoins.
It’s a store of value, a distributed ledger.
It’s a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government’s currency does not hold value.
It’s also a good investment vehicle if you have an appetite for risk.
But it won’t be a currency until volatility slows down. “
David Marcus (CEO of Paypal)
Bitcoin a store of value
” [Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system. “
Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
Bitcoin may hold long-term promise
“There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math based. “
Chris Dixon (Co-founder of Hunch now owned by Ebay, Co-founder of SiteAdvisor now owned by McAfee)
Math based currency
” Bitcoin is here to stay.
There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency.
And I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury. “
Adam Draper
Bitcoin is here to stay
” It’s money 2.0, a huge hugehuge deal. “
Chamath Palihapitiya (Previous head of AOL instant messenger)
Money 2.0
” If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds. “
Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase)
Future of bitcoin
” Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea.
I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker.
It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail. “
Hal Finney
Bitcoin a very promising idea…
” Bitcoin enables certain uses that are very unique.
I think it offers possibilities that no other currency allows.
For example the ability to spend a coin that only occurs when two separate parties agree to spend the coin; with a third party that couldn’t run away with the coin itself. “
Pieter Wuille
Bitcoin enables uses that are very unique
” At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers.
It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit cardfees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions… all good things. “
Peter Diamandis
Good things
” There is so much potential…
I am just waiting for it to be a billion dollar industry.”
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