“In the very first recorded transaction of Bitcoin for United States dollars, Martti sent NewLibertyStandard 5,050 Bitcoins to use for seeding the new exchange. In return, Martti got $5.02 by PayPal.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“For security, Satoshi relied on uncrackable mathematical formulas rather than armed guards. But” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Occupy Wall Street and the Free State Project were ostensibly leaderless organizations that eschewed new power hierarchies.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Erik argued that it was the very virtual nature of Bitcoin that made it so valuable. Unlike gold, it could be easily and quickly… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty confident that Bitcoin is the most important invention since the Internet itself. The world is changing because of Bitcoin right in front… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Ross himself had gained the expertise to build his government-eluding site after attending one of the best-funded public high schools in Texas and two… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“The only occasional gripe was about the volatile price of Bitcoin, which made it hard to know how much a vendor would be charging… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Tor network that served as a backbone of Silk Road had been created by the Office of Naval Intelligence.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“If there was ever a time that Silicon Valley believed it could revive the long-deferred dream of reinventing money, this was it. A virtual… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Satoshi envisioned a digital analog to old-fashioned gold: a new kind of universal money that could be owned by everyone and… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“gosh I can’t sleep ! I keep thinking about this great stuff. To me Bitcoin is the ‘cyberspace gold.’ I’m just amazed.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Japan was the only place Roger had encountered where people’s response, when he described Bitcoin, was to call it scary—rather than interesting or silly.… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“In the very first recorded transaction of Bitcoin for United States dollars, Martti sent NewLibertyStandard 5,050 Bitcoins to use for seeding the new exchange.… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Satoshi Nakamoto, or whoever could prove ownership of Satoshi’s public key: DE4E FCA3 E1AB 9E41 CE96 CECB 18C0 9E86 5EC9 48A1.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, a month after the Bitcoin conference, protesters took over Zuccotti Park in Manhattan and began what became known as Occupy Wall Street, taking… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s and 1980s, though, mathematicians at Stanford and MIT made a series of breakthroughs that made it possible, for the first time,… — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
