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2024-09-30 04:00:18

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” - Bertrand Russell

2024-09-24 16:00:20

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are essentially better than all the other causes in the world and refuse to believe that, if their cause is to prosper at all, it requires precisely the same evil-smelling manure as all other human undertakings have need of.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-24 12:00:19

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.” - Linus Torvalds

2024-09-24 00:00:19

“In the near future, the government having a monopoly on money will seem as strange as the government having a monopoly on religion or language.” - Conner Brown

2024-09-19 04:00:19

“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.” - Ayn Rand

2024-09-17 20:00:19

“Bitcoin number go up means state power go down.” - Stephen Cole

2024-09-17 16:00:21

“Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

2024-09-17 12:00:20

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” - Benjamin Franklin

2024-09-16 12:00:23

“When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.” - David R. Henderson

2024-09-15 16:00:19

“The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

2024-09-15 12:00:19

“Although the shrewdest judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchery, this guilt nevertheless did not exist. This applies to all guilt.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-15 08:00:19

“The types of collection in [1984] - microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us - are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.” - Edward Snowden

2024-09-15 04:00:56

“Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.” - Hunter S. Thompson

2024-09-14 16:00:20

“Libertarianism holds out, not the goal of a perfect society, but of a better and freer one. It promises a world in which more of the decisions will be made in the right way by the right person: you.” - Bill Weld

2024-09-14 08:00:19

“Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.” - Alan Dershowitz

2024-09-14 04:00:20

“He who lives as children live — who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance — remains childlike.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-14 00:00:19

“The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-13 16:00:20

“I hope more and more people stop asking for permission. Just build what they want.” - Jack Dorsey

2024-09-13 12:00:19

“I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government.” - Benjamin Harvey Hill

2024-09-08 20:00:20

“When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-09-05 08:00:19

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” - Winston Churchill

2024-08-30 08:00:18

“The Socialists desire to create a comfortable life for as many as possible. If the enduring homeland of this comfortable life, the perfect state, were really to be attained, then this comfortable life would destroy the soil out of which great intellect and the powerful individual in general grows: by which I mean great energy. If this state is achieved mankind would have become too feeble still to be able to produce the genius.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-30 00:00:18

“The main factor determining a man's choices in life is his time preference.” - Saifedean Ammous

2024-08-29 20:00:18

“There is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.” - Hunter S. Thompson

2024-08-26 00:00:20

“Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL

2024-08-22 20:00:19

“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.” - Richard Stallman

2024-08-21 20:00:19

“You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.” - Milton Friedman

2024-08-21 08:00:26

“Following the USA’s defaulting on all its international loans on August 15, 1971, the US trade balance has been maintained using a combination of military threats and telling people to buy US dollars just to fund the ongoing consumption of the USA. Where other world currencies have failed to challenge the USD, and therefore this mechanism of maintaining US economic dominance, bitcoin may succeed.” - Rick Falkvinge

2024-08-21 00:00:19

“DHCP was invented by a rabid gerbil on speed.” - Kees J. Bot

2024-08-20 20:00:20

“One reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more propaganda. Another is that they have jobs in management, media, and academia and therefore work in some capacity as agents of the propaganda system--and they believe what the system expects them to believe. By and large, they're part of the privileged elite, and share the interests and perceptions of those in power.” - Noam Chomsky

2024-08-20 16:00:20

“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-20 12:00:20

“I'm concerned about another kind of religious fundamentalism: environmentalism. The Greenies have no more respect for scientific truth and individual liberty than the Goddies do. Both operate on faith, rather than fact. And neither of them has any qualms about dusting off the rack, the pincers, the Iron Maiden, and the red hot branding irons in order to see their mythology ensconced as beyond question.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-08-20 08:00:22

“When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money.” - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

2024-08-20 04:00:19

“We're going from infinite money and finite energy to finite money and infinite energy.” - Abe Cambridge

2024-08-19 20:00:19

“There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.” - Ayn Rand

2024-08-19 16:00:20

“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no, Sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people.” - Daniel Webster

2024-08-19 12:00:20

“Think of a hardware wallet as a single condom for your Bitcoins. Correct usage can protect you from the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies.” - Felix Weis

2024-08-19 08:00:19

“You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-19 00:00:20

“Modern liberalism, however well intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.” - Ron Paul

2024-08-18 16:00:20

“Time is interchangeable with volatility. Antifragile systems feed on volatility, which is why they persist over time. Bitcoin is antifragile money - it thrives amid adversity, stressors, and uncertainty; its voracious appetite for volatility ensures its success over time.” - Robert Breedlove

2024-08-18 04:00:19

“Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules.” - George Carlin

2024-08-17 16:00:18

“Today’s global fiat money system, the dollar standard, originated from government trickery and deception by self-serving politicians serving special interest groups, who colluded to bring about a full fiat money system. To the benefit of the ruling elites and in detriment to everyone else.” - Manuel Tacanho

2024-08-17 12:00:19

“Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.” - Alan Dershowitz

2024-08-17 04:00:20

“Hack the Planet!” - Hackers

2024-08-17 00:00:19

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” - Sigmund Freud

2024-08-16 12:00:19

“Gun-control laws don't inhibit criminals, who rarely buy their guns in stores. But the laws do prevent you from defending yourself.” - Harry Browne

2024-08-16 04:00:19

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

2024-08-16 00:00:19

“We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-08-15 20:00:19

“It is not civilised to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.” - Gertrude Stein

2024-08-15 16:00:21

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky

2024-08-15 12:00:22

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, if you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2024-08-15 08:00:22

“The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.” - Bertolt Brecht

2024-08-15 04:00:19

“And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone.” - Robert LeFevre

2024-08-15 00:00:21

“Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.” - Linus Torvalds

2024-08-14 20:00:23

“If SHA-256 became completely broken, I think we could come to some agreement about what the honest block chain was before the trouble started, lock that in and continue from there with a new hash function.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

2024-08-14 16:00:20

“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.” - Linus Torvalds

2024-08-14 12:00:20

“Right now, drugs are ours. They aren't tainted by the government. We the people control their manufacture, distribution and consumption.” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-08-14 08:00:20

“That a theory is refutable is, frankly, not the least of its charms: this is precisely how it attracts the more refined intellects.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-14 04:00:24

“We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-14 00:00:20

“To make a bank, was a great plot of state; invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.” - Andrew Marvell

2024-08-13 20:00:19

“Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.” - L. Neil Smith

2024-08-13 16:00:19

“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” - Agatha Christie

2024-08-13 12:00:20

“Bitcoin far outshines the US Dollar in every aspect as a value token for international trade.” - Rick Falkvinge

2024-08-13 08:00:20

“If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.” - Murray Rothbard

2024-08-13 04:00:19

“We rarely change an individual; and should we succeed, something else may have been accomplished, unnoticed: we may have been changed through him!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-13 00:00:21

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-12 16:00:22

“All governments consider themselves good. It’s just the citizens who tend to disagree to varying degrees.” - Rick Falkvinge

2024-08-12 12:00:19

“Sometimes I think it would be easier to explain why Bitcoin matters to someone in England 800 years ago than it is to do so today.” - David Lawant

2024-08-12 08:00:18

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” - Aldous Huxley

2024-08-12 04:00:20

“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently.” - Kim Neunert

2024-08-12 00:00:19

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” - George Orwell

2024-08-11 20:00:19

“We have heard much these past few years of how the government protects the consumer. A far more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” - Milton Friedman

2024-08-11 16:00:20

“Money should buy you one thing only and that is freedom.” - Max Berger

2024-08-11 12:00:19

“Bitcoin is super, super resilient.” - Cameron Winklevoss

2024-08-11 08:00:19

“Trying to ban free trade is as unjust as trying to legislate what may be discussed in everyday speech.” - Rick Falkvinge

2024-08-11 04:00:20

“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is of the essence of knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-11 00:00:05

“Libertarians see the individual as the basic unit of social analysis. Only individuals make choices and are responsible for their actions. Libertarian thought emphasizes the dignity of each individual, which entails both rights and responsibility. The progressive extension of dignity to more people — to women, to people of different religions and different races — is one of the great libertarian triumphs of the Western world.” - David Boaz

2024-08-10 20:00:19

“As long as we have an occupation that is invested with extreme authority, they must be invested with an extraordinary standard of accountability.” - Edward Snowden

2024-08-10 16:00:21

“The state may try to ban our tools, but if we never use them for fear of them being banned, then we have already lost, no?” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-08-10 12:00:19

“The US dollar, euro, and all national currencies today are fiat. Thus they can be easily and endlessly created, printed, if you prefer. In addition to that, because of fractional reserve banking, commercial banks also create large amounts of money by lending it into existence - artificial credit expansion.” - Manuel Tacanho

2024-08-10 08:00:20

“I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison drinker: the state where everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called - life.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-10 04:00:18

“The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?” - George Carlin

2024-08-10 00:00:20

“Bitcoin is rat poison; it’s just the banks and credit card companies are the rats.” - Dan Morehead

2024-08-09 20:00:21

“For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.” - Jacob G. Hornberger

2024-08-09 16:00:20

“The state wants to be absolutely the most important beast on earth; and it is believed to be so, too!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-09 12:00:21

“A western citizen is being brainwashed much more than a soviet citizen ever was during the era of communist propaganda. In ideology, the main thing is not the ideas, but rather the mechanisms of their distribution. The might of the Western media, for example, is incomparably greater than that of the propaganda mechanisms of the Vatican when it was at the zenith of its power.” - Aleksandr Zinovyev

2024-08-09 08:00:20

“The “neighbour” praises selflessness because it brings him advantages.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-09 04:00:20

“If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.” - Noam Chomsky

2024-08-09 00:00:19

“Almost everywhere it was madness which prepared the way for the new idea, which broke the spell of a venerated usage and superstition.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-08 20:00:19

“Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” - Ron Paul

2024-08-08 16:00:21

“Be on your guard against the good and just! They would like to crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the solitary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-08 12:00:20

“What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

2024-08-08 08:00:19

“Never forget where the real power lies. It's where it always has been, in your hands.” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-08-08 04:00:19

“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.” - Robert H. Jackson

2024-08-08 00:00:19

“Every person is unique, and their human rights are more important than any lofty goal, any mission, or any program. An individual's rights ARE the goal, ARE the mission, ARE the program.” - Ross Ulbricht

2024-08-07 20:00:20

“Now rebadged as being ‘woke’, political correctness represents an existential threat to Western societies including concepts like rationality and reason, religious freedom and freedom of expression. We have entered an Orwellian world like 1984 where Big Brother and the Party control how citizens think and where anyone who questions the thought police is victimised, punished and silenced.” - Kevin Donnelly

2024-08-07 16:00:21

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” - George Orwell

2024-08-07 12:00:18

“Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.” - T. Coleman Andrews

2024-08-07 08:00:20

“We don't have to have this big giant massive collapse. It just organically blows up, one-by-one, as people move to a harder, sounder money. And in the process, Bitcoin becomes a black hole on the world's balance sheet.” - Trace Mayer

2024-08-07 04:00:25

“Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo.” - Salman Rushdie