Bitcoin

In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

He says there is no center to the whole bitcoin system. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Will a sale of goods for bitcoin pass the "minimum sufficient contacts test"? ❋ Timothy Lee (2011)

I make this appeal to Wikileaks not to try to use bitcoin. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

Wei Dai, inventor of b-money, calls it "very significant"; Nick Szabo, who created bit gold, hails bitcoin as "a great contribution to the world"; and Hal Finney, the eminent cryptographer behind RPOW, says it's "potentially world-changing." ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

When we started working on this story, $7 got you one bitcoin. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The reason people want bitcoin is not just privacy. ❋ Timothy Lee (2011)

"No, don't 'bring it on,'" he wrote in a post to the bitcoin forum. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

On a bitcoin IRC channel, someone noted portentously that in Japanese ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

Not only did bitcoin's public ledger seem to protect against fraud, but the predetermined release of the digital currency kept the bitcoin money supply growing at a predictable rate, immune to printing-press-happy central bankers and Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

We talked with Gavin Andresen, a programmer whose done a lot of work on bitcoin. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We built the world's first bitcoin bank flexcoin.com and we have to comply with authorities … that least thing we need is DHS showing up and hauling away servers so no one can access anything.. so we would have little choice but to comply with authorities to avoid having the service shut down. ❋ Timothy Lee (2011)

But slowly, word of bitcoin spread beyond the insular world of cryptography. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida programmer, conducted what bitcoiners think of as the first real-world bitcoin transaction, paying 10,000 bitcoins to get two pizzas delivered from Papa John's. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

He looks up the exchange rate, $17 per bitcoin, and gives us 2.352941176 bitcoins. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On December 5, 2010, after bitcoiners started to call for Wikileaks to accept bitcoin donations, the normally terse and all-business Nakamoto weighed in with uncharacteristic vehemence. ❋ Jmckeel (2011)

i bought [Bitcoin] at $1 and [sold] it at $[10000], now i'm rich ❋ Jangod (2018)

i [wasted] all my [money] on bitcoins ❋ Cloutgang.official (2017)

Nanotube was able to [purchase] many [goods] and services with Bitcoins, without the [gubmint] watching. ❋ Cusipzzz (2011)

Given its rapid rise, growing acceptance and internal characteristics, [Bitcoin] has managed to [terrify] governments, [atheists] and the religious all at once. ❋ A7Z (2014)

the bitcoin [buyer] walks into a room the first thing he does is yell as loud as [he/she/it] can and saysbitcoin buyer: I HAVE [INVESTED] IN BITCOINS ❋ Nhu1k (2018)

I [used] bitcoin to [customize] my [weapons]. ❋ BingoBongoBoi (2021)

[Western Union] will charge you almost 5% to [transfer] $20,000 to India. They won't even let you do it in a single transfer since it is too big, and they'll hit you with an unfavorable exchange rate. Why don't you just send your [vendor] some bitcoin? ❋ Nicky_steves (2013)

I use Bitcoin for all sorts of things. To have a neighbor's dogs killed, to buy drugs, donate to wikileaks, pay for kiddie porn, etc. Sorry, [I misspoke]. I usually don't buy drugs with Bitcoin anymore. Too much a hassle. I was totally up in her junk at her place and her idiot friend bugs in and the two of them start ragging about #metoo and Harvey Weinstein and then she pulls a Bitcoin on me and says she feels [undervalued] in our relationship. I'm like, Bitch you [trumpin']. ❋ @RealityWinner (2018)

I had a million [US Dollars], so I converted them all to [Bitcoin], and now I have 100,000 [US dollars]. Who will buy these stupid Bitcoins from me at an inflated price so I can possibly make back a percentage of what I lost? How many grams of meth can I get for 10 Bitcoins? Promise you aren't a cop? ❋ GPFspeakingTruth (2015)

[Bitcoin] [is not real]. Bitcoin is a scam. I invested all of my money in [bitcoin] and the price dropped to the floor. Now, I’m fucked. [Paypal] me some bitcoin. ❋ Crypto Keeper (2019)