"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)

"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place." — Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993) #privacy #selfdefense #anonymoustransactions

"How can we translate the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?" — Jim Bell (Assassination Politics, 1997) #freedom #internet #cypherpunk

"In one direction lies unprecedented scrutiny and control of people's lives; in the other, secure parity between individuals and organizations. The shape of society in the next century may depend on which approach predominates." — David Chaum (Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete, 1985) #privacy #surveillance

"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." — Hal Finney (Cryptography Mailing List, 2008) #bitcoin #security #proofofwork

"You use envelopes for postal mail. You use it for love letters, business letters and your medical records. The only way to create the digital equivalent of an envelope is to encrypt." — Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003) #encryption #privacy #email #envelopes

"Bitcoin isn't just money for the internet. It's a new form of money that is native to the internet." — Andreas Antonopoulos (Mastering Bitcoin, 2014) #bitcoin #internet #money

"The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration." — Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988) #government #regulation

"Advances in information technology have made possible the rise of a truly international currency that does not depend on a central bank." — Nick Szabo (Bit Gold, 2005) #digitalcurrency #centralbank #international

"Bitcoin is the most significant computer science breakthrough in the last 20 years." — Adam Back (Conference speech, 2017) #bitcoin #computerscience