Best excerpts you heard on bitcointalk?

[libert19]

Sometimes, to question an obvious scam how is it a scam or in what way could it scam could actually bring you closer to becoming a victim. - @Darker45


What are yours?

[mk4]

"I AM HODLING

I type d that tyitle twice because I knew it was wrong the first time.  Still wrong.  w/e.  GF's out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I'LL TELL YOU WHY.  It's because I'm a bad trader and I KNOW I'M A BAD TRADER."

- the legendary GameKyuubi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0)

You might as well close this thread because I've already won.

[Rikafip]

You might as well close this thread because I've already won.

Pretty much this, but If I have to find 2nd best one, for me it would be the one from that famous pizza thread. Now you can close it 

"I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day" - laszlo

[NeuroticFish]

My all time favorite comes from Satoshi. The others are nice, but imho they cannot compare with Satoshi himself.

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

[Darker45]

I'm a little flattered, but more embarrassed. Thank you, just the same!

However, I'm sure that line of mine couldn't even make to the top 500 best excerpts on this old forum. Definitely, it's not the best! The best should be coming from Satoshi himself/herself/themselves and the likes of Hal Finney and the rest of the pioneers who really made a contribution.

And because it was Hal Finney's birthday yesterday, I exerted a little effort to look for a much much better excerpt from the man. I got this one below.

Since we're all rich with bitcoins, or we will be once they're worth a million dollars like everyone expects, we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.

N.B.: I love the prophecy no less.

[FatFork]

" Licking my boob since 1970 "

I bet you all know the author of this one. 

[ABCbits]

Not the best, but i think it deserve a mention or two.

Privacy and/or anonymity work both ways round.

• People use privacy to do bad things because good people are stopping them otherwise
• People use privacy to do good things because bad people are stopping them otherwise

[aysg76]

My all time favorite comes from Satoshi. The others are nice, but imho they cannot compare with Satoshi himself.

My favourite one's also come from the mystery man himself who has made this all possible :

Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more.  Think of it as a donation to everyone.

" Licking my boob since 1970 "

I bet you all know the author of this one. 

Yeah it has been 274 days and there's no licking then onwards..

[Upgrade00]

One of my favourite is not from a very popular user, but one who made a thread I have very so often referred back to when looking for simple solutions to seemingly complex issues;

The past cannot be changed, but there are enough gains waiting for us in the future to amply reward those who care to exercise their logic and invest rationally.

I find the quote particularly useful cause so many people claim to have missed the top or are too late to benefit from Bitcoin and while the post was made some years back, it applies to any year regardless.

[Pmalek]

This one by theymos was good as a reply to a user who was requesting for KYC on the forum because people were cheating with multiple accounts in bounty campaigns. Theymos added it to his to-do list, of course.

I'll get right on that, just as soon as hell freezes over.

[_BlackStar]

I have two interesting quotes from Satoshi Nakamoto, his success in creating bitcoin and his belief in large transaction volumes since its introduction that we can enjoy today. There are still plenty of them, but just two for now.

“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

[Choose.username]

this is the best quote i have ever heard

I actually measured the energy usage with a Kill-A-Watt with and without mining a few months after that post, and I was getting 160 BTC/kWh. Because the cost of mining 1 BTC was less than a tenth of what 1 BTC was actually priced at at the time, I thought that BTC was substantially overpriced, and so I also have the honor of selling BTC at the lowest prices ever recorded, $0.003/BTC.

And

I think we need to think the other way around. Instead of regretting not being able to send a message to our young self from ten years ago, we should consider what our old self would want to share with us ten years into the future. We might hear our messages from the future if we concentrate enough. Are you guys hearing anything?

[salad daging]

Here's a quote that will happen in the future he has predicted bitcoin to reach $100,000
I always imagined this quote.

Imagine in the future if btc would hit 100.000$, people are gonna start teaming up to hunt these lost address down and try to access them.

One more precious quote

Economically speaking, Bitcoin is backed by the people who exchange it for other things of value (goods, services, other currencies). The same goes for every currency. The more stuff people offer in exchange, the more the currency is worth.

[KingsDen]

I think we should schedule a large increase in the block size limit right now while the protocol rules are easier to change. Maybe even schedule an infinite series of increases, as we can't really predict how many transactions there will be 50 years from now - Caveden
Caveden as far back as November, 2010. He is the man who saw tomorrow.

Bitcointalk.org:
 - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings.
 - I run the server. Cobra has no access to the database or server.
 - The BTC is held by myself and the treasurers. Cobra has no access. - theymos

In order to improve the overall forum experience, going forward we are only going to allow smart people to post- theymos on April fool.

[vapourminer]

I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156

This is gentlemen.....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855789.msg9524582#msg9524582

[nakamura12]

This may not be the best to other people but I consider it as one of the best quotes I ever heard or read in Bitcointalk forum. It had a nice message for those who think that there is an unmovable barrier towards their goal and this quote is the solution for it. I think there is a forum user who did it and it's n0nce, where he did made a lot of contribution in the forum regardless the rank he had before which goes back to the quote below.

You don't have to be a "Legendary member" to be considered as a "real asset" of the forum.

" Licking my boob since 1970 "

I bet you all know the author of this one. 

Yeah , the author did make a package out of that one with an animated image with the same thing (Licking my boob since 1970).

[skarais]

Precisely on January 24 2018, the quote theymos below is the quote that surprised me the most because at that time I was still an Sr Member rank but had almost reached Hero Member rank. It took me a lot of time to reach Hero and Legendary ranks, but for whatever effort I put in, I have to admit it was worth it because there was a benefit I felt behind the introduction of the merit system and that was an increase in my contribution to the forum.

In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks.

[noorman0]

I think there is no harm in quoting the words of people who are not very visible (bounty hunters) in this forum. This is one that I found a few days ago,

I like this part:

...because bitcoin is not a setback but an advancement

Enough to refute the alleged antibitcoin activists, you will understand the meaning of this quote in the original post.

[BlackHatCoiner]

WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.

[mk4]

I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156

It boggles my mind how some people as early as 2011 could've foreseen this with confidence. Like good lord it takes a crap ton of conviction and a huge pair of balls to be able to be this bullish when at that time they didn't even have Andreas Antonopoulos; then you get the next response with a dude that put all his money into bitcoin at 2 digits. Oh my god.