"It's not stable-with-respect-to-energy. [...] It's not tied to the cost of energy." —Satoshi Nakamoto

"In comparison to modern distributed databases, blockchains are slow, ponderous, unnecessarily redundant and overly paranoid." —Dhruv Bansal

"Satoshi Nakamoto's main invention is the decentralized mechanism for emergent consensus." —Andreas Antonopoulos