What is your favorite Satoshi quote?

cesckat

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Quote from: BittBurger on December 02, 2014, 05:06:56 PM

The most famous Satoshi quote appears on the Genesis Block. It conveys the true meaning of Bitcoin.

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

https://blockchain.info/tx/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b?show_adv=true

-B-

Historical TX-ID for the Bitcoin network Cheesy

yay!

Remember that's a non-used block: https://blockchain.info/es/block-index/14849 Wink

BittBurger

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The most famous Satoshi quote appears on the Genesis Block. It conveys the true meaning of Bitcoin.

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

https://blockchain.info/tx/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b?show_adv=true

-B-

TheLittleDuke

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"All your coinbase are belong to us!"

Elwar

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Viva Ut Vivas

His last messages to Gavin...

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

Come...

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

Stay..

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

Ouch

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

Ouch

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

I'll...be....right...here...

theblacksquid

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I like how he knew in advance that the Bitcoin economy would start out as a payment network.

Quote from: satoshi on August 27, 2010, 12:32:07 PM

As a thought experiment, imagine there was a base metal as scarce as gold but with the following properties:
- boring grey in colour
- not a good conductor of electricity
- not particularly strong, but not ductile or easily malleable either
- not useful for any practical or ornamental purpose

and one special, magical property:
- can be transported over a communications channel

If it somehow acquired any value at all for whatever reason, then anyone wanting to transfer wealth over a long distance could buy some, transmit it, and have the recipient sell it.

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Quote from: MineForeman.com on December 01, 2014, 10:31:07 PM

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I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/msg09959.html

Surprised no one has mentioned this one, my favorite by far.

Yeah this is one of my fav's as well...n revolutionary..!!

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I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/msg09959.html

Surprised no one has mentioned this one, my favorite by far.

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Quote from: scarsbergholden on November 29, 2014, 01:48:44 PM

I personally like the one in your signature about Bitcoin's success in 20 years (the number of transactions).

However I think that these kinds of threads and people worshiping satoshi so much that they have favorite quotes of his are bad for bitcoin in general. I don't think that satoshi wanted to be worshiped in this way. Also if his identity ever is discovered then anything he says or does could potentially affect bitcoin

I didn't create this thread as a form of Satoshi worship. There are plenty of things that Satoshi said/did that I don't agree with. I created this thread as a way to promote bitcoin with, hopefully, positive quotes.

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Twitter @realmicroguy

Probably the final thing he said on this forum before he vanished with over 1 million bitcoins he mined while controlling the lion's share of the Bitcoin network. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29479

"As Gavin and I have said clearly before, the software is not at all resistant to DoS attack. This is one improvement, but there are still more ways to attack than I can count."

548845

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My favorite: "resistance is futile"

PS: He didn't say it.... yet.....

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Quote from: DannyHamilton on November 29, 2014, 12:21:52 PM

I've always liked the way this one makes it clear that consolidation in the mining industry was the plan from the beginning:

Quote from: satoshi on July 14, 2010, 04:10:52 PM

I anticipate there will never be more than 100K nodes, probably less. It will reach an equilibrium where it's not worth it for more nodes to join in. The rest will be lightweight clients, which could be millions.

At equilibrium size, many nodes will be server farms with one or two network nodes that feed the rest of the farm over a LAN.

This one echos the same sentiment:

Quote from: satoshi on July 28, 2010, 09:00:38 PM

The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.

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Those are good ones. Should give people some idea about current state of affairs in mining.

Quote from: cesckat on November 30, 2014, 09:41:48 AM

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Now I want to ask something on that topic:
Do you think that satoshi is just one person or it's a group of people? ah?

Satoshi is a group... of one person Grin

There is only one of us here.

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Quote from: Lethn on November 30, 2014, 01:40:45 AM

Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on November 29, 2014, 08:44:05 PM

Satoshi on porn is classic

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13844

lmao I quite like that one, but it's also very true about the recurring bill thing, anyone who's dealing in Bitcoin now has to politely send an invoice to you that you need to pay rather than just steal the money directly from your bank account, great news for MMORPG players and the like as well as porn downloaders Tongue

Well a lot of people sign up for automatic billing so they don't need to be bothered with having to remember to pay every month so there are some good things with automatic billing features. Although most reputable companies will stop charging your bank account/credit card when you request them to do so (even if an agreement says that you continue to owe them money) there are some that will not do this, for example porn sites (as mentioned by satoshi)

cesckat

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Quote from: xDan on November 30, 2014, 07:25:57 AM

Quote from: satoshi

I am God, and all mortal creatures shall bow before my greatness.

pretty much my favourite Satoshi quote

This isn't real, lol.

Now I want to ask something on that topic:
Do you think that satoshi is just one person or it's a group of people? ah?

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Quote from: satoshi

I am God, and all mortal creatures shall bow before my greatness.

pretty much my favourite Satoshi quote

cesckat

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Verba volant, bits persist.

Quote from: Lethn on November 30, 2014, 01:40:45 AM

Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on November 29, 2014, 08:44:05 PM

Satoshi on porn is classic

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13844

lmao I quite like that one, but it's also very true about the recurring bill thing, anyone who's dealing in Bitcoin now has to politely send an invoice to you that you need to pay rather than just steal the money directly from your bank account, great news for MMORPG players and the like as well as porn downloaders Tongue

yes!

Quote from: satoshi on September 23, 2010, 12:56:55 PM

Bitcoin would be convenient for people who don't have a credit card or don't want to use the cards they have, either don't want the spouse to see it on the bill or don't trust giving their number to "porn guys", or afraid of recurring billing.

I think that I'm going to be one afternoon reading all the satoshi comments Cheesy

Lethn

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Quote from: BlindMayorBitcorn on November 29, 2014, 08:44:05 PM

Satoshi on porn is classic

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13844

lmao I quite like that one, but it's also very true about the recurring bill thing, anyone who's dealing in Bitcoin now has to politely send an invoice to you that you need to pay rather than just steal the money directly from your bank account, great news for MMORPG players and the like as well as porn downloaders Tongue

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

I don't remember exactly the words, but his opinion about "phase in" the change of block size, so that when the change comes, the majority of the nodes have already reached a consensus

This approach can give the users enough time to react to a HARD FORK, which is an "extinct level" event as Jeff Garzik described it Grin

BlindMayorBitcorn

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Satoshi on porn is classic

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13844

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Quote from: DannyHamilton on November 29, 2014, 12:21:52 PM

But I think one of my all time favorites is:

Quote from: satoshi on July 28, 2010, 09:00:38 PM

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

My favorite!

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