Axel

“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

“A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. William Bolitho”
― Haseeb Qureshi, How to Be a Poker Player: The Philosophy of Poker

“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

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who writes the laws. — Amschel Rothschild”
― Erik Cason, Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin