>Running bitcoin

Hal Finney 

https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988

HODL

Yeah, he made a little fortune with it:

> As of press time, that address has garnered 6.32570673 BTC, an amount worth just under $15,000 at current prices. While most of the transactions involved, numbering 556 according to Blockchain.info, were small in scale, one notable contribution was for 1 BTC.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/07/13/bitcoin-sign-guy-nets-almost-15000-after-fed-chair-appearance-goes-viral/

The "buy bitcoin guy" behind Jenet Yellen was pretty awesome. 

newnym

>"Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message.
>
>The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity.
>
>Unfortunately, the solution is not to just change a constant in the code or to allow powerful participants to force out others.
>
>We are all Satoshi"

-Based OG Bitcoiner

https://archive.ph/x929a#selection-49.8425-49.8459

Taranis

Replace "gold standard" with "difficulty adjustment" and it's perfect.

Somewhat not a bitcoin quote but should be:

"The gold standard is the best "governor" that can be devised for a world that is still human, rather than divine" – Montague Norman

tlmort91

Haha, ooh, yes! Also forgot about this. I remember when I first saw this and was completely mindblown and had no idea how this is possible.

Now it makes sense to me with these amount of outputs etc.

Now I imagine CSW suing random bitcoin developers because "his" whitepaper is on the blockchain, lol

When people [realized the whitepaper is encoded in the blockchain and wrote a one-liner to grab it](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the-whitepaper-decoded-from-the-blockchain-tx-with-1000x-m-of-n-multisi/35970):

```
seq 0 947 | (while read -r n; do bitcoin-cli gettxout 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 $n | jq -r '.scriptPubKey.asm' | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 }'; done) | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 17-368600 | xxd -r -p > bitcoin-test.pdf
```

nullama

Once you understand #Bitcoin, you go to bed each night with anxiety, feeling chronically short.

bitcoin

Mine is:

> Once you understand #Bitcoin, you go to bed each night with anxiety, feeling chronically short.

-- Michael Saylor