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“I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous to group together again, and you become more
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“I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous to group together again, and you become more

“We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodians. The more they do, the more the lines will diverge.

“When it comes to building in the approach, you have to be taking the approach as utilising the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself. So having a standard rule set that you apply

“If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It’s like Noah’s Ark: it’s going to rain, we build the ark. We don’t have to

“That’s the main reason I like doing this Bitcoin stuff so much, because it’s connected to the real world. It’s proof of work. Like, I can’t sit on my computer and come up with a

“It’s a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical obligation, as a technical possibility, and a lot of fun.<br

“PearDrive is like, how could you make stuff seamless across devices and how can you leverage that device that has a lot of storage to get the most out of the device that has a

“Of course, central banking, fiat money is bad, but nevertheless, maybe AI and robotics and this productivity is going to be really beneficial to the global economy, not just the U.S. economy.
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“Bitcoin needs to be exciting because it provides a utility that no other technology provides. The value transfer technology needs to be embedded in every application in the world. Period. That’s super exciting.”
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“If you can get a court to say you’re Satoshi, and you are of this mindset, you can then go ahead and you can sue Bitcoin developers, Bitcoin exchanges, whatever, to say, “look, I’ve got

“I think that all of the people that I know that are working on Bitcoin Core and other Bitcoin projects are onlyinterested in the monetary use case. But I think that many of them take

“Bitcoiners have a spirit. I think the spirit is an ancient spirit. It goes back to the American Revolution. It goes back to the Magna Carta. It goes back to ancient Greece. It goes back

“The necessity for guys to be around other good guys and girls to be around other good girls… we had that really well structured all throughout history. We fucked it all up over the last

“If you have this disconnect between Core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else, something’s got to give at some point, right? Either you get developers that are more in
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