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Denise Hearn on The Concentration of Capitalism
Author: Denise Hearn“In 1995 the top 100 companies accounted for 53% of all income from publicly traded firms but by 2015 they had captured a whopping 84% of all profits.”
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Michael Saylor on What To Buy
Author: Michael Saylor“Buy things that human beings and robots can’t make more of.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Hacking Bitcoin
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“If I want to hack a million customer’s bitcoin, and they’re holding their keys, I have to hack a million customers. If they all give their keys to one person or one organization, then we’ve got a honey pot. A honey pot that attracts the attention of every hacker on the planet.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on What Bitcoin Does
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Bitcoin is the first system of money that is not controlled by any entity, that is completely decentralized. And what it does is it introduces the very same things that the internet brought to communication. If money is speech, if money is a language, and you disconnect it from all other media, and you make…
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Andreas Antonopolous on The Internet Of Money
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Bitcoin introduces a platform on which you can run currency as an application on a network without any central points of control. A system completely decentralized, like the internet itself. It is not money for the internet, but the internet of money.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Decentralizing Value
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Bitcoin isn’t money. The blockchain isn’t a system of currency. It is a platform of trust. It’s not a company. It’s not a product. It’s not a service you sign up for. It’s not a currency. Currency is just the first application. It is the concept of decentralization applied to the human communication of value.”
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Andreas Antonopolus on What Bitcoin Does To Money
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“There was a time when the idea of allowing every human to be able to communicate without borders or censorship on the World Wide Web was terriying to people. To some people it still is terrifying. Most of the younger generation find it liberating in a global sense. Bitcoin does that to money.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Bitcoin Growth
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Bitcoin today, and all of the currencies that are built using that recipe, are at the same stage that the internet was in 1992. Only now we have the internet, and so the rate of exponential growth has already started. The innovation is growing at an astonishing rate. I spend every single day, full-time, trying…
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Andreas Antonopolous on Underestimating Bitcoin
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Do not underestimate this. Do not listen to the people who tell you that Bitcoin is just for pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, and gamblers. Remember that they said the exact same thing about the internet. But when 2 or 3 million people got online, we found out that they are not interested in those things…
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Andreas Antonopolous on Bitcoin Transactions
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“When you do a Bitcoin transaction, it is not related or attached to identity. You do not need to create an account. You do no need to register. You do not need to provide ID, or name, or location, or address, age, gender, race, religion, nationality, nothing. You don’t even need to be human.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on What is Bitcoin
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Bitcoin has no physical form. It doesn’t exist in any way. It is entirely intangible. It cannot be touched. It is simply a digital form of money. But it is a digital form of money that is entirely different from everything we’ve seen before. What it does that is different is that it is not…
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Winston Churchill on Hell
Author: Winston Churchill“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
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Mae West on Two Evils
Author: Mae West“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
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Oscar Wilde on Means
Author: Oscar Wilde“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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Oscar Wilde on People
Author: Oscar Wilde“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
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Warren Buffett on Understanding Bitcoin
Author: Warren Buffett“It’s buying something because you expect the pool of people who want to buy it—because they want to sell it to someone else—will grow, and it’s wonderful because it does create a rising price, and a rising price does create more buyers, and people think I’ve got to get in on this, and it’s better…
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Warren Buffett on Equating Bitcoin with Rat Poison
Author: Warren Buffett“Probably more like rat poison squared.”
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Warren Buffett on Owning Cryptocurrencies
Author: Warren Buffett“I don’t own any cryptocurrency, I never will… …I may start a Warren currency, you know, maybe I can create one and I’ll say there’s only going to be 21 million of them.”
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Warren Buffett on Bitcoin
Author: Warren Buffett“Bitcoin has been used, I think, to move around a fair amount of money illegally. So… so the logical move, from the introduction of Bitcoin, is to go short suitcases.”
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Warren Buffett on Cryptocurrencies
Author: Warren Buffett“Cryptocurrencies basically have no value, and they don’t produce anything. So you can look at your little ledger item for the next twenty years and it says you have x of this cryptocurrency or that. It doesn’t reproduce, it can’t mail you a check, it can’t do anything. And what you hope is that somebody…
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W. B. Yeats on Dreams
Author: W. B. Yeats“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
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Oscar Wilde on Being Yourself
Author: Oscar Wilde“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Interesting Blockchains
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“I’m interested in blockchains that are open, public, borderless, neutral, and censorship-resistant.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Defining Blockchain
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Can you define ‘blockchain’? I think a few people in this room could define blockchain, but the real challenge would be can you define ‘blockchain’ in such a way that I can’t do search and replace with the word ‘database’ and still make that sentence work.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Blockchain vs Bitcoin
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Blockchain is Bitcoin with a haircut and a suit that you parade in front of your board.”