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Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.
Wences Casares
2.
Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.
Rick Falkvinge
3.
I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.
Peter Thiel
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You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.
John McAfee
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Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.
Andreas Antonopoulos
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Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.
Rick Falkvinge
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It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
Alan Greenspan
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Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail.
Hal Finney
10.
Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.
Hal Finney
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The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.
Andreas Antonopoulos
12.
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government
Leon Louw
13.
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
15.
We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy
Janet Yellen
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In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
Wences Casares
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Bitcoin is a technological tour de force
Bill Gates
18.
Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade
John McAfee
19.
Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.
Andreas Antonopoulos
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Did I mention how good it feels to be a bitcoin millionaire?
Max Keiser
23.
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
Eric Schmidt
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Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.
Wences Casares
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I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.
Godfrey Bloom
26.
Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.
Kim Dotcom
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The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do?
Ashton Kutcher
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Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
Julian Assange
29.
I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant.
Ashton Kutcher
31.
The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.
Thom Yorke
32.
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.
Timothy C. Draper
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Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.
Paul Ford
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With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.
Bobby Lee
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I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.
Alex Winter
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The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.
Arnon Grunberg
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Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.
Kurt Eichenwald