"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

"Wealth isn't the gold of pirates—wealth is energy." —Buckminster Fuller

"We’re going towards this central, totalitarian, surveillance, police state with the central banking system we have." —Vortex

"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 is fate. It operates completely outside of any human agency, even if it was (possibly) some people that created it. For all you know about who Nakamoto was... Bitcoin might as well have created itself." —Mircea Popescu

"For the first time in human history, you can take all of your wealth and your life force. You can put it into an asset, you can keep the keys, you can take custody [...] No government, no bank, can take it away from you. There's nobody to tell you: 'you can't own your life force.'" —Michael Saylor

"Bitcoin is text. Bitcoin is speech. It cannot be regulated in a free country like the USA with guaranteed inalienable rights and a First Amendment that explicitly excludes the act of publishing from government oversight." —Beautyon

"Bitcoin is the most important political movement of our time." —Ryan Selkis

"This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete" —Nicolas Dorier

"We are all bitcoin." —Hass McCook

"[Bitcoin is not] the iPhone of money. It really isn't. It's the Linux of money, at best." —Saifedean Ammous

"Bitcoin has a way of separating itself from those that don't understand it." —BCB