Bitcoin Quotes

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

An intelligent investor sees an opportunity in dip than risk. ~ Mohith Agadi

There are almost 200 currencies of the world, but there's only one international currency. There are almost 200 currencies controlled by central banks and governments, but there is only one mathematical currency today, and that is bitcoin. We are going to build more of them. Cryptographic currencies are going to be a mainstay of our financial future. They are going to be a part of the future of this planet because they have been invented. It's as simple as that. You cannot un-invent this technology. You cannot turn this omelette back into eggs. ~ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous. ~ Marc Andreessen

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it's like a collectible. ~ Bobby Lee

You might think of Bitcoin and blockchain as two halves of a whole, but in reality, they are very distinct commodities. ~ Olawale Daniel

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off. ~ Julian Assange

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency ... ~ William Shatner

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

I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward. ~ Godfrey Bloom

Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box. ~ Mark Skousen

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [ ... ]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. ~ John McAfee

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

In May 2010, a Florida programmer by the name of Laszlo Hanyecz wanted to test the technology. He offered to buy a pizza for 10,000 coins. The pizza arrived. For several days after that, Hanyecz bought 10,000-bitcoin pizzas. I bet he regrets it now. Ten thousand bitcoins would at one stage be worth over 12 million dollars. Twelve million bucks for a pizza! ~ Dominic Frisby

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

The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission. ~ Andreas Antonopoulos

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do. ~ Stefan Molyneux

The divine line "Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency is for criminals" is a cunning defensive strategy created by so called traditional financial services sector. ~ Mohith Agadi

Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin ~ Warren Buffett

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

A Forbes journalist referred to bitcoin as digital collectible. ~ Anonymous

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves. ~ Dan Kaminsky

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

Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use. ~ Hal Finney

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had. ~ John Battelle

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I like the concept of 'not spending more money to spend money'. Let's scale it. ~ Mohith Agadi

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency ... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin. ~ Bill Gates

Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser. ~ Wences Casares

Bitcoin is getting there but it's not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations. ~ Rick Falkvinge

All the gold in the world was worth around $7 trillion. If Bitcoin became even half as popular, that would put the value of each Bitcoin at around half a million dollars - or ~ Nathaniel Popper

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world. ~ Peter Thiel

Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold, Both will rise when the markets crash ~ Kim Dotcom

Bitcoin itself has already cycled through the familiar trajectory of rebellious alternative, promising a currency independent of the state, through to a venture-capital-funded investment vehicle in which 0.1% of the participants own 50% of the coins. The debate ~ Tom Slee

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust. ~ Paul Ford

Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso. ~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money. ~ Paul Buchheit

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The ~ George Gilder

If there was ever a time that Silicon Valley believed it could revive the long-deferred dream of reinventing money, this was it. A virtual currency that rose above national borders fitted right in with an industry that saw itself destined to change the face of everyday life. ~ Nathaniel Popper

Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world's most important developments. ~ Leon Louw

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices. ~ Kurt Eichenwald

Modern technologies are 99 percent bravery , and 1 percent investment ~ Arif Naseem

Bitcoin is not "unregulated". It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. ~ Andreas Antonopoulos

I'm a big fan of # Bitcoin ~ Al Gore

I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant, ~ Ashton Kutcher

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100. ~ Steve Hanke

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

Code talks. Talk walks. ~ Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry. ~ Rick Falkvinge

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people. ~ Wences Casares

My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it. ~ Uday Kotak

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world. ~ Stefan Molyneux

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

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