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