"I had this view of cryptography in which the critical value of cryptography was that you didn't have to trust other people." — Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992) #cryptography #trust #autonomy

"In a world without cash (a bearer and peer-to-peer form of money) all transactions must be necessarily intermediated by financial institutions. Intermediated transactions are by their nature subject to surveillance and control." — Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019) #cash #surveillance #control #intermediation

"Because cash is permissionless, it is censorship resistant." — Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019) #cash #censorship #permissionless #freedom