Impressive bitcoin one liners for non bitcoiners

[yeponlyone]

can anyone think of any good ones? something you could quickly mention to someone, like a fact or something.. stuff like, "there are over (some number) bitcoin related sites".. whatever, anyone got anything good?

[casascius]

"Using Bitcoin does to the big banks what e-mail does to the Postal Service."

http://m.ibtimes.com/u-s-postal-service-first-class-mail-donahoe-congress-214545.html

"We simply need fewer facilities to process less mail," Megan Brennan, said chief operating officer of the Postal Service.
 
The postal service has experienced fast decline in First Class mail due to the Internet, as more people use e-mail and online bill pay instead. In the last five years, for example, First Class mail volume has dropped 25 percent. Single-piece first class mail -- letters and such sent with a stamp -- has declined 50 percent in the past decade.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending

[casascius]

You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins

[beckspace]

Bitcoin. Full-SHA encrypted.  No back doors.
Secure digital money.  Swiss bank accounts for the millions.

inspired by:
THE CYPHERPUNK MOVEMENT
by St. Jude

[Explodicle]

Bitcoin is the world's most powerful computing network. It's harder to hack than any bank in the world.

You can use Bitcoin to buy [their vice] secretly, without giving away personal information on the internet.

Satoshi is Chuck Norris.

[Littleshop]

You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins

So far my favorite.

[Littleshop]

Though I do say....

It's paypal meets napster.

but that may not invoke such a flattering image.

[jimbobway]

Bitcoin will do to banking what bittorrent did to copyright.

[casascius]

Bitcoin will do to bank executives what the internet did to travel agents.

[Littleshop]

Or a merger of the above two:

Bitcoin will do to banks what the internet did to travel agents.

[ThomasV]

Bitcoin is money without banks

[jimbobway]

Bitcoin is bigger than the Internet.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Use today, tomorrow's medium of exchange.

[julz]

Bitcoin is borderless electronic cash - anyone in any country can send and receive bitcoins without signing up anywhere or opening an account.


(ok - so the merchant part, and exchange to local currency part aren't quite there on a global scale - but it gives an idea of the potential.)

[stryker]

Bitcoin! going down like ham at a jewish wedding 

[FormerlyAnonymous]

I seem to encounter a lot of really profoundly nontechnical people (which is odd, since I live in the Bay area and am a professional geek but I just don't cultivate a ton of geek social connections for whatever reason). I tell lay people:

"these days the biggest supercomputer in the world is Bitcoin"

whenever I do this I always feel guilty for not saying

"these days the distributed computer system with the most processing power is Bitcoin."

but if I said that they would hear: (in a nasal, condescending tone)

"it's common knowledge that today the most powerful discombobulated hyper-processing aparatus in terms of decagigadefenestrations is, of course, the P9783.419 Microsupergigaperambulator which as everybody knows is being offered by Confusosoft as a metahypomux of the ultracombowhatsit.'"

So I just keep it simple.

[AlexWaters]

Bitcoin is the money that people used back in the year 2200, just before we moved to space.

[osmosis]

Bitcoin is going to be the biggest opportunity for innovation that the world has seen since the industrial revolution.


Bitcoin is a startup currency which has never happened before.

[Sultan]

Bitcoin - it is Allah's Will