Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. I personally think these fundamental values, pushed to such extremes, are silly.
Vitalik Buterin
Though I don’t personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.
Ron Paul
Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
Joseph Stiglitz
It’s probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
Naval Ravikant
How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
Patrick M. Byrne
There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
Patrick M. Byrne
We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It’s an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
Patrick M. Byrne
Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.
Tyler Winklevoss
If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.
Tyler Winklevoss
Calling bitcoin volatile it’s a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That’s what unregulated assets do.
Tyler Winklevoss
Gox was a pattern of poor operations, poor customer service, poor PR. You can’t just take bitcoin and hide.
Tyler Winklevoss
Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen.
Tyler Winklevoss
We eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin.
Tyler Winklevoss
To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.
Tyler Winklevoss
One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.
Tyler Winklevoss
With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
Tyler Winklevoss
We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.
Tyler Winklevoss
Somehow I wound up with the nickname ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.
Roger Ver
You have to be really, really careful how you use bitcoin in order to use it privately.
Roger Ver
Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.
Roger Ver
I don’t think it’s any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.
Roger Ver
Anybody who has enough information about what’s going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.
Roger Ver
I don’t think it matters at all if the Bitcoin Foundation were to close.
Roger Ver
Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn’t just a flash in the pan.
Roger Ver
Bitcoin will experience many bubbles along its way to improving the lives of everyone on the planet. I’m not concerned with the short-term price fluctuations.
Roger Ver
Bitcoin is here to stay.
Roger Ver
I’m motivated by the positive ways in which Bitcoin use being widespread will make the world a better place.
Roger Ver
Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.
Roger Ver
I don’t think Bitcoin cares what the Chinese or American politicians do.
Roger Ver
I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
Adam Draper
Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it’s by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
Adam Draper
What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it’s a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don’t trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.
Adam Draper
I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.
Adam Draper
In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they’ll say, ‘It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
Adam Draper
When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
Adam Draper
People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
Adam Draper
We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.
Tyler Winklevoss
Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.
Tyler Winklevoss
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives center, and that is why it is starting to take off
Julian Assange
I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
Adam Draper
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
Nassim Taleb
Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential.
Marc Kenigsberg
Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments.
Leon Luow, Nobel Peace prize nominee
If the world’s using bitcoin, governments won’t be able to fund wars through inflation like they do today.
Roger Ver
Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn’t require the bankers.
Max Keiser
Bitcoin as an asset class is brilliant, as a means of payment, fantastic.
Max Keiser
Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry
Rick Falkvinge, Founder of the Swedish pirate party
Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.
Paul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail
You can’t stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust
John McAfee
Bitcoin is a technological tour de force
Bill Gates
“At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions … all good things”
Peter Diamandis
We will never hear about people’s Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.
Roger Ver
Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I’m opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.
Roger Ver
“I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government] … is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of Bitcoin”
Al Gore
I think examples of free market transactions between peaceful people using Bitcoin and the Internet, I think it’s a wonderful thing. It’s going to make the world a better place.
Roger Ver
It’s hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications.
Alex Biryukov
The hardest obstacles for Bitcoin companies are banking and regulation.
Charlie Shrem
I understand the political ramifications of [bitcoin] and I think that government should stay out of them and they should be perfectly legal.
Ron Paul
It’s gold for nerds.
Stephan Colbert
Bitcoin was created to serve a highly political intent, a free and uncensored network where all can participate with equal access.
Amir Taaki
Bitcoin, and the ideas behind it, will be a disrupter to the traditional notions of currency. In the end, currency will be better for it.
Edmund C. Moy
Bitcoin is the currency of resistance. If Satoshi had released Bitcoin 10 yrs. earlier, 9/11 would never have happened
Max Keiser
Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments
Charles Lee
Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry
Rick Falkvinge, Founder of the Swedish pirate party
I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it’s derided as a toy. Just like microcomputers.
Paul Graham, Creator of Yahoo Store
Bitcoin is evil.
Paul Krugman, economist
I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.
Vitalik Buterin
China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won’t be able to censor Bitcoin. There’s no central authority. There’s no one you can go to and say, ‘We’re going to turn Bitcoin off.’
Naval Ravikant
We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.
Max Keiser
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Bitcoin is the most important invention in the history of the world since the Internet.
Roger Ver
The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way
Janet Yellen
Stay away from it. It’s a mirage, basically
Warren Buffet
The main event isn’t bitcoin. It’s using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.
Patrick M. Byrne
Economists and journalists often get caught up in this question: Why does Bitcoin have value? And the answer is very easy. Because it is useful and scarce.
Erik Voorhees
[Bitcoin] is a very exciting development, it might lead to a world currency. I think over the next decade it will grow to become one of the most important ways to pay for things and transfer assets.
Kim Dotcom
It’s money 2.0, a huge huge huge deal.
Chamath Palihapitiya
If the U.S. government tries to restrict or clamp down, that just means there will be many more bitcoin businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore, and all those Americans will miss out on all the opportunities.
Roger Ver
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
Erik Voorhees
If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.
Cameron Winklevoss
If money was being invented now, it wouldn’t be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Adam Draper
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.
Roger Ver
Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it’s completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It’s all the participants in the network enforcing.
Naval Ravikant
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
Max Keiser
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It’s happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert