History

Genesis Files: Hal’s Quest for Digital Cash

“Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for…”

“But Hal Finney, ever the optimist, wasn’t ready to give up.” – Aaron Van Wirdum

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A Monetary Layer for the Internet

“The project was initially understood as yet another doomed attempt to construct a digital currency by the disillusioned cypherpunk community. And without anyone’s permission, Bitcoin slowly emerged and diligently grew to become adopted by a small group of computer researchers, cryptographers and engineers curious to decipher the technology.” – Thibaud Marechal

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Masters & Slaves of Money – By Robert Breedlove [full]

“Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality. History shows us that the corruption of monetary systems leads to moral decay, social collapse, and slavery. As the temptation to manipulate money has always proven to be too strong for mankind to resist, the only antidote for this poison is an incorruptible money — Bitcoin.”

Robert Breedlove

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Masters & Slaves of Money – Part 2

“When we stop conceiving of central banking as an economics story, and start to see it as a crime story, we are beginning to get the true picture.” – Robert Breedlove

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Masters & Slaves of Money – Part 1

“Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality.” – Robert Breedlove

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Two Revolutionary Networks, Lightning & the Internet

“We have JCR Licklider to thank for the first articulation of the Internet, which he dubbed the “ Intergalactic Computer Network ” in 1962” – Roy Sheinfeld

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Gold & Economic Freedom

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold.”  – Alan Greenspan

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Bitcoin & the Technological Evolution of the Financial System

I think of Bitcoin as a conservative investment because it’s so superior to gold. The value of it should wind up at least equal to gold’s…”BitcoinTINA

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The Number Zero & Bitcoin

“A distant digital descendent of zero, the invention of Bitcoin represents the discovery of absolute scarcity for money: an idea as equally unstoppable.”  – Robert Breedlove

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Bitcoin as a Startup

“VCs are a group of people demonized in the Bitcoin industry for not understanding Bitcoin’s value proposition. Well, how do you expect a VC to value Bitcoin if they’re only used to valuing startups?” – Hass McCook

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