Sourced · Curated · Context - Editorial crypto quote library & reading notes
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“You can't stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere, and the world will have to readjust.”
John McAfee
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“The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.”
AD Adam Draper
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“Bitcoin is evil.”
Paul Krugman
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“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
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“Stay away from it. It’s a mirage, basically. In terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say almost with certainty that they will come to a bad ending.”
Warren Buffett
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“Bitcoin is worse than tulip bulbs”
Jamie Dimon
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“Bitcoin is the biggest opportunity set we can think of over the next decade.”
Bob Grifeld
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“The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.”
D& Don & Alex Tapscott
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“What we want is fully anonymous, ultra-low transaction cost, transferable units of exchange. If we get that going… the banks will become the obsolete dinosaurs they deserve to become.”
Adam Back
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“Gold is a great way to preserve wealth, but it is hard to move around. You do need some kind of alternative and Bitcoin fits the bill. I’m not surprised to see that happening.”
Jim Rickards
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“It just identifies how much money laundering there is being done in the world,” Fink said. “How much people are trying to move currencies from one place to another.”
Larry Fink
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“Online identity and reputation will be decentralized. We will own the data that belongs to us.”
WM William Mougayar
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“Cryptourrencies may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.”
Ben Bernanke
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“Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.””
Jacob Appelbaum
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“This [Bitcoin] may be the purest form of democracy the world has ever known, and I - for one - am thrilled to be here to watch it unfold.”
Paco Ahlgren
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“Trusted third parties are security holes.”
NS Nick Szabo
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“Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.”
Whitfield Diffie
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“Bitcoin was created to serve a highly political intent, a free and uncensored network where all can participate with equal access.”
Amir Taaki
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“Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organizations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states because otherwise one state just takes over another.”
Julian Assange
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“What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.”
JS Jim Sanborn
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“I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing but that will soon be developed is a reliable e-cash.”
Milton Friedman
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“You should be taking this technology as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990’s.”
Blythe Masters
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“What can’t kill Bitcoin, makes it stronger.”
MW Mark Wittkowski
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“Bitcoin is the currency of resistance.”
Max Keiser
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“It was the amateurs of cryptology who created the species. The professionals, who almost certainly surpassed them in cryptanalytic expertise, concentrated on down-to-earth problems of the systems that were then in use but are now outdated. The amateurs, unfettered to those realities, soared into the empyrean of theory.”
David Kahn
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“Bitcoin is Cash with Wings”
Charlie Shrem
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“Bitcoin enables certain uses that are very unique. I think it offers possibilities that no other currency allows. For example the ability to spend a coin that only occurs when two separate parties agree to spend the coin; with a third party that couldn’t run away with the coin itself.”
PW Pieter Wuille
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“The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn’t cost that much to start a new Bitcoin company, it doesn’t cost much to start owning Bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.”
Tim Draper
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“Hey, obviously this is a very interesting time to be in Bitcoin center now, but if you guys want to argue over whether this is reality or not, one Bitcoin will feed over 40 homeless people in Pensacola center now. If you guys want proof Bitcoin is real, send them to me, I’ll cash them out and feed homeless people.”
Jason King
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“We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.”
Tyler Winklevoss
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“The governments of the world have spent hundreds and hundreds of trillions of dollars bailing out a decaying, dickensian, outmoded system called banking when the solution to the future of finance is peer-to-peer. It’s going to be alternative currencies like Bitcoin and it’s not actually going to be a banking system as we had before 2008.”
Patrick Young
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“When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it was impossible. How can you have a purely digital currency? Can’t I just copy your hard drive and have your bitcoins? I didn’t understand how that could be done, and then I looked into it and it was brilliant.”
JG Jeff Garzik
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“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
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“One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
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“If Satoshi had released Bitcoin 10 yrs. earlier, 9/11 would never have happened.”
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“Bitcoin is Money Over Internet Protocol.”
TG Tony Gallippi
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“I love seeing new services constantly starting to accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin is really becoming “the currency of the Internet.” I’m most concerned by possible government reactions to Bitcoin. They can’t destroy Bitcoin, but they could really slow things down by making exchange much more difficult.”
MM Michael Marquardt
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“At their core, cryptocurrencies are built around the principle of a universal, inviolable ledger, one that is made fully public and is constantly being verified by these high-powered computers, each essentially acting independently of the others.”
PV Paul Vigna
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“There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math-based.”
Chris Dixon
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“The reason we are all here is that the current financial system is outdated.”
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“Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments”
Charles Lee
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“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
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“I understand the political ramifications of [bitcoin] and I think that the government should stay out of them and they should be perfectly legal.”
Ron Paul
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“If Bitcoin does not reach $500.000 by the end of 2020, I will eat my d*** on national television.”
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“It’s gold for nerds.”
Stephan Colbert
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“Cryptographical solutions might with great propriety be introduced into academies as the means of giving tone to the most important of the powers of the mind.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“EVERY informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments.”
Leon Louw
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“The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate Bitcoin in any way.”
Janet Yellen
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“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
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“Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.”
Wences Casares
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“Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.””
Nassim Taleb
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“Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives center, and that is why it is starting to take off.”
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“PayPal had these goals of creating a new currency. We failed at that, and we just created a new payment system. I think Bitcoin has succeeded on the level of a new currency, but the payment system is somewhat lacking. It’s very hard to use, and that’s the big challenge on the Bitcoin side.”
Peter Thiel
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“Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement… The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value…Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that.”
Eric Schmidt
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“Well, I think it is working. There may be other currencies like it that may be even better. But in the meantime, there’s a big industry around Bitcoin- People have made fortunes off Bitcoin, some have lost money. It is volatile, but people make money off of volatility too.”
Richard Branson
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“Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.”
Bill Gates
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“Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry”
Rick Falkvinge
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“As the value goes up, heads start to swivel and skeptics begin to soften. Starting a new currency is easy, anyone can do it. The trick is getting people to accept it because it is their use that gives the “money” value.”
Adam B. Levine
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“Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential.”
MK Marc Kenigsberg
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“I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.”
Paul Graham
