Cannot recall where I first heard this quote but it has stuck with me — “You become a Libertarian because you just want to be left alone. Then, when they refuse to leave you alone, you become something else.”

No man ever sends the same Bitcoin twice, for it is not the same block height, and he is not the same man.

Legendary.

Amusing type of Bitcoiner: > wants Bitcoin to win > complains whenever anyone except ultra-libertarian cypherpunks adopt it

Never sell you Bitcoin. When the time comes, spend don’t sell.

I’ve noticed three distinct responses wrt the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. No-coiners: Totally unaware. Didn’t know it happened. Couldn’t tell you the current Bitcoin price either. Bitcoin Tourists: Bummed the announcement didn’t instantly pump their bags. Anxious the top may be in this cycle. Considering selling some. Real Bitcoiners: Euphoric, bullish, regardless of short term price action, knowing the long term paradigm shift to a Bitcoin standard is well underway.

Medium of exchange will come. Once Bitcoin is the dominant form of savings, people will widely spend it, and merchants will widely accept it. There are already many of us who use the lightning network every day.

Trump put Garlinghouse in the kiddie corner while announcing a Bitcoin-only Strategic Reserve, and the XRP guys are trying to spin this positively.

Snowden deserves a pardon. Exposing crimes is not a crime. It is a heroic service to the American people. If anything, he should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.