Quotes About Cryptocurrency

By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0.

Calling bitcoin volatile - it's a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That's what unregulated assets do.

There is a lot of volatility in the digital asset market broadly, and certainly that is true in the bitcoin market. It's been true for XRP, and I think that's because these markets are very nascent.

Bitcoin as an asset class is brilliant, as a means of payment, fantastic.

Bitcoin is here to stay.

When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.

Bitcoin is my baby; it's my whole world and my whole life. It's what I was put on this earth to do.

Some of the bitcoin community come from that kind of anarchistic, libertarian view. But, one reason why I think Ripple has been very successful is because we work with the system.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they had this resiliency.

Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.

Money is information, like bits.

How do we create new value? You create value by running services on the blockchain.

We eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin.

At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet.

Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.

I just spent the last 8 months working on the second edition of 'Mastering Bitcoin,' and I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the innovation that is happening in BTC.

We will not allow the use of crypto-currency as a surrogate money.

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

A "permissionless" cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is built to be out of anyone's control, wastes incredible amounts of electricity — Bitcoin uses about as much power as all of Austria45 — and would be a completely silly idea for a company to develop as an investment, unless they were maintaining control by other means.

Of course, the most common pitch for Bitcoin is much simpler: you might get rich for free. People will say and do any ridiculous thing if they might get rich for free. The one really consistent ideology in Bitcoin is: "number go up.

Let's say an unsavory app developer that's based in Pakistan utilizes an exchange that's based in Thailand to rip off an Arizonan who's using a wallet that was built in Spain, so they steal all of their Libra. And that, of course, is minted by an association based in Switzerland. So which law enforcement or government or agency in which country does the Arizonan call to seek his or her Libra and financial recourse in this situation?