The document discusses the potential of bitcoin from perspectives of various advocates and experts. It touches on how bitcoin challenges existing financial and governmental systems by allowing for the transfer of value without centralized control. Several quotes note that bitcoin could strip power from states by removing their control and influence over currency and the economy. Advocates see bitcoin as a tool for liberty and economic freedom.

1. Time to get bitcoins

2. money is an agreement, it doesn't
have value at all by itself
- Charles Eisenstein

3. the crisis we have won't go away by
itself
- Charles Eisenstein

4. the reason we're all here is that the
current financial system is outdated
- Charlie Shrem
BitAngel, BitPay, Bitcoin Foundation

5. Bitcoin is "cash with wings"
- Charlie Shrem
BitAngel, BitPay, Bitcoin Foundation

6. order will always call rebels insane
- #FoucaultHomie

7. Central banks have operated under a
'print money' paradigm, and the
entire financial system has
maladapted to this bizarre
environment.
- John Butler
author of the Golden Revolution

8. it's a math problem that creates a
currency
- Trace Mayer
entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and
ardent defender of the freedom of speech

9. one of the largest bull markets in
history
- Trace Mayer
entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and
ardent defender of the freedom of speech

10. it allows people to send money at
any point in time to any body in any
country
- Trace Mayer
entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and
ardent defender of the freedom of speech

11. How to hack the tax system... know
where the minefields are and avoid
stepping on them.
- Trace Mayer
entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and
ardent defender of the freedom of speech

12. What drives Bitcoin adoption: utility
or store of value? Or does the
aesthetic of the protocol trump
both? The beauty of BTC is what
attracts us
- @MaxKeiser
American broadcaster and film-maker

13. I am working full time to make the
world a better, less violent place by
promoting the use of Bitcoin.
- Roger Ver aka “Bitcoin Jesus”
Voluntaryist

14. Bitcoin totally strips away the State’s
control over money
- Roger Ver aka “Bitcoin Jesus”
Voluntaryist

15. It takes away the vast majority of
its power to tax, regulate, or control
the economy in any way
- Roger Ver aka “Bitcoin Jesus”
Voluntaryist

16. If you care about liberty, the
nonaggression principle, or economic
freedom in general you should do
everything you can to use Bitcoin as
often as possible in your daily life.
- Roger Ver aka “Bitcoin Jesus”
Voluntaryist

17. Bitcoin is unstoppable
- Roger Ver aka “Bitcoin Jesus”
Voluntaryist

18. Mental institutions always have
security guards if you refuse their
definition of reality
- Reddit

19. Governmentality: whatever keeps you
governed and in particular, whatever
keeps you governed without ever
having to resort to force
- Reddit

20. The media perpetuates the order of
society as much as the police do, as
much as even schools, children's
books (and banks) do.
- Reddit

21. Music thanks to DJ Leo on
Soundcloud
- www.soundcloud.com/djleo