Revan

“If a man works without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the highest. Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice”
― Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“He could geek out about cryptography and decentralization with them and make nerdy math jokes and they would get the punch line.”
― Camila Russo, The Infinite Machine

“The U.S. government stepped in during economic crises all the time. Less than five years earlier, the United States had used billions of dollars of taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street banks during the 2008 financial crisis. During the Great Depression the government had prohibited U.S. citizens from owning gold: in 1933, President Roosevelt had signed executive order 6102, requiring citizens to turn in their gold for cash. It wasn’t until 1975, when President Ford repealed this order, that it was again legal for Americans to own gold that wasn’t jewelry or coins. And all bank deposits were only insured to the tune of $250,000. “More than twenty thousand account holders at Laika, the second largest bank in Cyprus, are going to have half of their savings taken away,”
― Ben Mezrich, Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

“The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.”
― Ben Mezrich, Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption