Controversial Sayings

7,237 sayings found from the Contemporary era

downplay the narrative of Nakamoto as a “shadowy figure” perpetuated by the media, which framed bitcoin as a “pirate currency.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto 2011
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My main critique in both cases was 'respect public legitimacy more'. (Sam's sin was the fraud plus the 'woke shibboleths' thing, the OpenAI board's sin was making a sudden huge decision and feeling entitled to not explain itself to the public)

— Vitalik Buterin 2024
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Achievement unlocked: have been compared to Hitler by 2 different Reddit trolls!

— Vitalik Buterin 2017
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What are the craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you've seen on Twitter or elsewhere? Here are a few good ones, I wonder what else people have seen that I haven't!

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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make communism great again

— Vitalik Buterin 2025 (as per source)
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I didn't even know who Tom Brady is, had to ask people around me. My best guess was that he was the actor from Mission Impossible.

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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The banhammer is controlled by one group today, it will be controlled by another group tomorrow.

— Vitalik Buterin 2025 (as per source)
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It's not sweet. Ninety percent chocolate. When I say chocolate, I always mean chocolate, I don't mean sugar with a little bit of chocolate.

— Vitalik Buterin 2024
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I'm hearing through the grapevine that something major is about to happen.

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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If it [crypto] does happen, We'll Sacrifice Lot of Potential Crypto Has To Offer.

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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There are a lot of things you can say on the sourceforge site that I can't say on my own site … Even so, I'm uncomfortable with explicitly saying 'consider it an investment'. That's a dangerous thing to say and you should delete that bullet point. It…

— Vitalik Buterin 2010
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The cryptocurrency space has a long history of using unsubstantiated rumors to induce certain price movements.

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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just as technology has motivated creation and entrepreneurship, it has also been used as a vehicle for tax evasion, money laundering, and scams.

— Vitalik Buterin 2022
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If you want to judge my thinking, look at the Sun.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I'm a curious person who is interested in the great issues of the day and I'm not good at holding my tongue.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I'm not disowning it or saying it wasn't my responsibility, but I was always closer to the Sun.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I think that's an overstatement.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I was jealous of the Daily Telegraph … I'm disappointed that the editor of the Times didn't buy them when were offered them first.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I don't think he [Gordon Brown] was in a very balanced state of mind.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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I think there were just a bunch of women, mainly complaining about their husbands probably.

— Rupert Murdoch 2012
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