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

“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

“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

“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