Axel

“Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a “safe line of investigations,” which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors. Unfortunately, a random universe full of relative variables does not insure such a “safe line of investigations.” —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

“Poker is ultimately a battle against human irrationality. To master poker is to master the brain, the human apparatus. This is also the journey.”
― Haseeb Qureshi, How to Be a Poker Player: The Philosophy of Poker

“is essentially to deny agency, to say we would all lie, cheat, and steal, all of the time, if only we knew for sure we would get away with it. Rather, we restrain from theft, destruction, and breach of contract because we respect the agency of others.”
― Allen Farrington, Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

“Crypto is about the power of privacy, and the form of power that is decrypted when the concealment of information is verified and guaranteed beyond the law of any and all men. But so long as ‘crypto’ remains a vacuous slogan used by every piece of shit blockchain thought up, crypto will continue to be a nascent term concealing its true meaning and its messianic potential to all who see it, but not to those who seek it.”
― Erik Cason, Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin