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Quotes from Roger Ver

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
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
Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.
~ 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
Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.
~ Roger Ver
Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.
~ Roger Ver
If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.
~ Roger Ver
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
Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.
~ Roger Ver
Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than later.
~ Roger Ver
If you look at the market cap of Ethereum before the hard fork and the split into Ethereum Classic, the combined market cap of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic is greater than the market cap before the split - and everybody got what they want.
~ Roger Ver
Bitcoin is coming from a bunch of young computer nerds who saw this thing and thought it was neat. A lot of the early bitcoiners are 19-year-old kids, still living at home with their parents, and they don't have any business experience.
~ Roger Ver
Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.
~ Roger Ver
Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.
~ Roger Ver
If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.
~ 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 am tired of seeing real criminals, with lots of victims being ignored, while traditional law enforcement is busy going after perpetrators of victimless crimes such as those involved in the Silk Road Marketplace.
~ Roger Ver
I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.
~ Roger Ver