Quotes About Currency

an economic operating system designed by thirteenth-century Moorish accountants looking for a way to preserve the aristocracy of Europe has worked as promised. It turned the marketplace into one giant debtors' prison. It is not only unfit for the needs of a twenty-first-century digital society; central currency is the core mechanism of the growth trap.

Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use. Since it is the only kind of money we know of, we use it for everything.

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Who thought of money?

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.

The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.

Confiamos en Dios» reza el reverso de los billetes de diez dólares estadounidenses; pero la persona en la que uno realmente está confiando cuando acepta uno de ellos como pago es el actual sucesor del hombre que está en el anverso (Alexander Hamilton, el primer secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos)

camarada bolchevique Yevgueni Preobrazhenski* sí describió la prensa de papel moneda como «esa ametralladora del Comisariado de Finanzas que vomitaba fuego en la retaguardia del sistema burgués».

I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

I think fiat currencies will become digital.

I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

For an investment banker, the choice between a payment that doubles with every square on the chessboard and one that doubles with every other square is more important than any other part of the contract. Who cares whether the payment is in pennies, pounds, or pesos?

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.