Bitcoin addresses are derived from public keys through a hashing process. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

"When I first stumbled upon this Mengerian framework of money, this is when I actually thought it's game over for all the shitcoins out there." —Emil Sandstedt

"The crypto wars were just the appetiser. Arguably, the stakes are much higher this time. We’re talking about the right to use cash products over the internet - something absolutely fundamental to a functioning society." —Nic Carter

We can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

I honor and love you: but why do you who are citizens of the great and mighty nation care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor And reputation, and so little amount wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Re you not ashamed of these?... I do nothing but go about persuading you all, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by more, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man.

"Bitcoin is. And that is enough." —Beautyon

The open ledger allows anyone to audit the currency supply. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

"We're going from infinite money and finite energy to finite money and infinite energy." —Abe Cambridge

Bitcoin solves the double-spending problem with a peer-to-peer network and proof-of-work. -- Satoshi Nakamoto

"If you think proof-of-stake is a good idea, it means you never understood proof-of-work in the first place." —Adam Gibson

Understanding a question is half an answer.