BitcoinTalk to Crypto Twitter, Satoshi to Vitalik, and of course McAfee, the past 12 years of social media has given us some fantastic quotes about blockchain and cryptocurrency. Some are controversial, some are funny, they are all thought provoking.
Here we round 20 of the best crypto quotes – if you have a favorite let us know via our social channels
Financial journalist Paco Ahlgren on Bitcoin democracy
"This [Bitcoin] may be the purest form of democracy the world has ever known, and I — for one — am thrilled to be here to watch it unfold."
Wall Street veteran Blythe Masters comparing blockchain to the internet
"You should be taking this technology [Blockchain] as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990’s."
Markets reporter Paul Vigna on removing banking bureaucracy
"The blockchain keeps everyone honest, and a whole layer of banking bureaucracy is removed, lowering costs."
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin on... Ethereum
"When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, ‘OK, this thing is too good to be true.’ As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good – fundamentally, completely sound."
Crypto VC Nick Tomaino on Smart Contracts
"Ethereum exists because it enables developers to write smart contracts better than Bitcoin in the near-term."
Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam on Ethereum vs Bitcoin
”Make no mistake – Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency.”
Angel Investor Gil Penchina Compares Ethereum to Paypal
”It’s clear to me now that Ethereum is the new currency of the Internet. It’s way ahead of where Paypal was in its day, and it’s much more exciting to its customers than Paypal ever was.”
Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam on Ethereum vs Bitcoin (again)
”It’s clear to me now that Ethereum is the new currency of the Internet. It’s way ahead of where Paypal was in its day, and it’s much more exciting to its customers than Paypal ever was.”
Fidelity Investments CEO Abigail Johnson loves blockchain
”I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.”
Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam on Ethereum vs Bitcoin (again- it seems to be a favorite subject)
”Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.”
Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom sees Bitcoin as a world currency
"Bitcoin is a very exciting development; it might lead to a world currency. I think over the next decade it will grow to become one of the most important ways to pay for things and transfer assets."
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin on Bitcoin and Ethereum being different
“Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing different things. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the protocol is written to sustain this cryptocurrency. Clearly, Ethereum platform has ETH, it is also a digital currency, but it exists to sustain the protocol.”
Vitalik Buterin talks about killer apps
"The next killer app is not the notes, it’s the links — Uniswap, Decentralized finance, etc. Every application is a component the future ecosystem can gain from."
William Shatner... the revolution is coming
“The revolution is coming, not merely in the streets but in the ether. It’s a revolution of knowledge.”
Vitalik Buterin talks about Layer 2
"Layer Two chains that are storing data off-chain are going to have a hard time generalizing."
Swedish Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge compares Bitcoin to email
"Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry."
Actor Ashton Kutcher on decentralized technology
"The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do?"
John McAfee compares Bitcoin to gunpowder
"You can’t stop things like Bitcoin, it’s like trying to stop gunpowder. It will be everywhere, and the world will have to readjust. World governments will have to readjust."
Economist Joseph Stiglitz believes in digital currency
"I believe very strongly that countries like the United States could and should move to a digital currency, so that you would have the ability to trace this kind of corruption. There are important issues of privacy, cyber-security, but it would certainly have big advantages."
Where it all started...
“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.”
