ETF: A mutual fund with benefits … A pool of assets … You diversify … You win in the end. Eric Balchunas, Everything You Need to Know About the Bitcoin ETF, Bloomberg, Youtube 54.45, 2024
They work well in a digital world. ibid.
ETFs: They don’t pay anybody. ibid.
You got to get out there do your stuff … by convincing the customer it’s a good deal. ibid.
The fighting for the portfolio is so brutal … That’s why you have such a race for the Bitcoin ETF. ibid.
This could be a win/win … An ETF will be a good deal … They’ll be a cost war over several years. ibid.
The Bitcoin race is a new frontier. ibid.
Blackrock: they are a subplot that’s hard to read. ibid.
Behind that website are real people. And it’s those people you need to trust. Trust No-One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, Netflix 2022
Did a Crypto CEO Fake His Own Death to Abscond With $190 Million? ibid. online news report
Bitcoin went from relative obscurity to front page news. ibid.
Bitcoin rose and rose and rose. And ultimately it crashed. And I think that was the beginning of troubles at Quadriga. ibid.
To come out with a statement a month after he’s dead sounds phoney. ibid. victim
We were basically robbed by Gerald Cotton. ibid.
Quadriga co-founder served time in US prison for role in identity-theft ring. ibid. The Globe & Mail online
Gerry was a serial scammer. ibid.
Mr Cotton lost approximately $150,000 by essentially gambling it. This is where it turned into more of a Ponzi. ibid. forensic accountant
The enemy of your Ponzi scheme is people leaving the Ponzi scheme. ibid.
I wish I had kept my 1,700 BTC @$0.06 instead of selling them at $0.30, now that they’re $8.00! Greg Schoen tweet 16th May 2011
It’s fascinating to imagine what is means to have global decentralised money, and that’s what happening. The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, Youtube 1.35.47, 2023
There are no records of Nakamoto’s existence prior to the creation of Bitcoin. On his profile page he claimed to be a 34 year old man living in Japan. ibid.
The Bitcoin economy was a wild west in Cyberspace and was very attractive to hackers and scammers. ibid.
Bitcoin is open-source software. ibid.
Bitcoin lost half of its value in six hours. ibid.
The most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage. Edward Snowden
I don’t even care about profit in Bitcoin, I just want to see the government and banks piss themselves. Unwrinkle your soul, man tweet 29 May 2011
Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offering a global, affordable, simple and secure savings account to billions of people that don’t have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund. Sydney Sweeney
Bitcoin is everything people don’t know about computers, combined with everything they don’t understand about money. John Oliver
‘In the absence of the Gold Standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.’ God Bless Bitcoin, Greenspan, Youtube 1.29.11, 2024
There has been so much damage caused by broken money over the last fifty years. ibid.
Our money buys us less and less every year. ibid.
‘The worst levels of income inequality and wealth concentration we’ve seen since the 1920s.’ ibid.
‘It’s more transferable than gold … more divisible than gold.’ ibid.
Bitcoin is the soundest form of money humans have ever created. ibid.
It’s the only form of money that give us digital property rights. ibid.
‘Bitcoin is as much an ideology as it is a technology.’ ibid. Michael Saylor
Despite all the doomsday prophecies, just fifteen years after launch, Bitcoin had become the tenth most valuable asset in the world. Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, Sky 2024
Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of said monopoly money, was now presumably the richest person in the world. ibid.
‘It’s this mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody knows who he is. Why did he disappear? What happened to his coin?’ ibid. comment
The cypherpunks waged a massive battle against the US government. ibid.
A massive nerd fight known as the Blocksize War. Ibid
The so-called Scambrian Explosion. ibid.
But what about the stash? ibid.