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"A very realistic possibility is that you see governments get themselves into increasing amounts of problems. Governments go bankrupt. Their currencies do collapse. And they then blame the Bitcoiners and the gold bugs."
"The real reason that I wear the mask is because it doesn't matter who I am. Anybody can be doing what we're doing thanks to Bitcoin and the Bitcoin node network. The message, the idea of free speech in a worldwide mesh network, does not depend upon any single person's identity. Everyone is building the mesh network."
"I came to visit, just to visit. On the second day, I bought a motorbike from Facebook Marketplace just to lock in. Okay, this might be my place."
“Politics is overrated, generally.”
"These are the pillars of our thought... and there's going to be no wavering from that. "
"We are starting to see symptoms of civilisational decline. "
"Shall we lock everyone down and then cripple supply chains, then pump as much money into the system as we can possibly get away with? "
"We're going down the wrong path ."
"The hardest pill to swallow is that democracy is socialsim ."
"Where we've got to with the internet over the last 25 years is terrifying."
"Do you want to bitch about it? Do you want to take a black pill? or do you want to find some solutions?"
"We now have half a million civil servants in the United Kingdom. We used to run the entire empire on forty thousand. "
"Bitcoin was built for chaos. Real estate was not."
"You don't need to be ashamed for living and acting freely. This is just how it's supposed to be. "
"Inflation is the greatest, unfair, immoral tax that exists on the planet. "
"It can sound very deep and philosophical at first — this idea that if you find value in something, you can send some value back. But it really comes down to the creator: How much do you want that freedom?"
"You can only be as free as you are authentic to yourself ."
"Trump gave a speech saying that he's ending Elizabeth Warren & Biden's 'War on Crypto'. We're trying to say to him, 'Then release the prisoners of war if you ended the war on crypto'."
"F rankly, if you don't stand your ground, you will always be fleeing. You will never have anything. Próspera got a commitment from the government of Honduras to have this arrangement for the next 45 years. At this point, the government i...
"Achieve gender equality, ensure the rule of law, promote justice, and promote non-discrimination. These are the fancy words that they're using, but in reality, the deeper you go into this agenda, the more you realise that there's a plan here that aspires to absolute control over humanity."
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"Freedom of speech requires a free space."
"I could see that if someone didn't get this to stop then it would just keep going — as far down as for children. And I just knew deep down 100% that that was wrong and that would cause harm, and I just couldn't let that happen."
"You don't need motivation — you need to have a very clear understanding about your identity and only take on work that that identity is loyal to. Because the days up here, there's no motivation in the world that gets you up here on a bad day."
"I want a world where people come into power, go to the room with the money, open the door — and the room is empty."
"We asked ourselves: if we were terminally ill and had two years to live, what would we do? The answer was go and travel the world in a truck. So we built one."
"I would like to see the world as a supermarket. You go around and pick what suits you best. Governments should be competing for you as a customer, not holding you as a hostage."
"Think about how depressing it would be to know everything we know about Fiat and not have Bitcoin. There are people who went through that. Bitcoin is the life raft they never had."
"You've got to understand. These people really do see most of us as useless eaters."
"12 hours before everything collapsed I was in a club celebrating with friends, beautiful girls, good times. If you had told me the banks would be closed and the peso worthless by morning, I would have bet everything against it. And then it happened."
"I define addiction as any behavior that helps you avoid feeling your feelings. By that definition, most of us are addicts. And Fiat money is one of the biggest drugs of all."
"When inflation was 13%, how many people got a 13% pay rise? Hardly anyone. Right? So we all got poorer. Right? So wouldn't it be great to have something in your life that's counteracting that effect? "
"In 2019, if you had asked me 'Will things change?', I might have thought that certain things would change but there is an Overton window of what's possible. Post 2020, so much has changed and I think the Overton window has just been blown wide open. Now is the time to be talking about these big ideas because now w...
"When I went to El Salvador, I went to try and find the catch. What's really happening there? What is this Bukele dictator actually doing there? I went in there to to ask tough questions about Bukele. It took me about a week to change my mind, to realise that's not really the story. That people love him. They hone...
"As far as the Cypherpunks go, I wanted the viewers to really understand WHY there is Bitcoin out there. You know, why? Why Bitcoin? And so it was really important for me to explain that a bunch of people were afraid that freedom could be jeopardised and so they built things.. and Bitcoin became the tool to fight f...
"It's beneficial if you can speak to leaders and politicians around the world and educate them about Bitcoin. Not about them essentially adopting it, but to let them know that there's a bottom-up movement happening all around the world and that really, they can't do anything to stop it. So they might as well embrace...
"The playbook today on a Fiat standard is to figure out a way to lie, cheat, get into central banking, get into politics and if you can't get into central banking or politics, get into big business and get as close as you can to the monetary spigot. So all of the incentives align you in such a way that you're basica...
"Right now we've been living in a society of debt on debt on debt on debt. This is something that cannot be sustained. The current financial system as it is currently constructed, cannot survive in the long term on this type of methodology. So there needs to be a shift and a move to a new type of system for any type...
"I realised I wasn't making a living, I was making an existence. I was existing, but I wasn't living. That's why I called my book 'Choose Life'. Because of the transformation that happened to us afterwards."
"No one person knows how to make a pencil. No one person has the resources to make a pencil. You need the chainsaws and the fuel and the mining for the metals to make the chainsaws. It turns out that to actually feed yourself, you don't need all those different people. All you need is a little bit of grass and a la...
"Most people didn't care, don't care, and will not care about freedom, and this is a fact. So, freedom-minded people were, are, and will always be a minority. And this is really important because when you realise this, you stop trying to change the global society by voting or by trying to make political changes, bec...
"When you go to Madeira, things tend to happen to you. I've seen this happen. I've seen the light go on in people's eyes when they arrive. They're like, 'Yeah, I want to live here'. I've seen that many times. I haven't seen that anywhere else . "
"A dystopia always has a different side: a utopian one. The question is, is it possible to have a Bitcoin utopia while the world is dystopian? So that's a challenge to Bitcoiners. And I think it's a great challenge. It challenges you to think about what hyperbitcoinization may mean and what it looks like ."
"There are long-term debt cycles, which are 75 to 100 years. These are often correlated to the rise and fall of the global reserve currency a nd right now, it seems like we are at this turning point."
"The fight for freedom is a constant struggle everywhere. In the long run, it's not as easy as just 'freedom-loving people will move to one jurisdiction and then that place will stay free forever'. That's not how it works."
"These are the Cypherpunk ideals... to use modern day technologies to define and establish the property rights of individuals in cyberspace. And to make sure that theft and surveillance are not possible anymore."
"I am very well aware that the state isn't going anywhere in our lifetimes. It will be a gradual process where it will become more and more irrelevant. This is how I would like things to evolve".
"Do you have a Plan B? Do you have a separate form of money? Can you move?... Are you building networks of security & trust?"
" For us the ultimate mission is to empower individuals. Bitcoin and Bitcoin education is a tool to make that happen... But the end goal is to create individuals that have self-sovereignty, that have personal responsibility and that have agency in their own lives "
"I am a firm believer that Próspera will change Honduras. Honestly, we have suffered so much. So many governments have hurt us. I think that Próspera is the solution."
"More and more people are interested and I think that COVID accelerated this and made people think about: 'OK, should I live where I live right now?... Or do I want to live in this place with this governance model?'"
"2020 was that year when basicly I was doing my research and thinking, OK, I need my escape plan. I need a way to get out of here."
