Perhaps Among Us Still
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.
— Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009
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.
— Hal Finney, 2008
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
— Michael Saylor
Bitcoin is the only money that has ever existed that cannot be corrupted. It cannot be seized, it cannot be confiscated, it cannot be inflated. It is perfect money.
— Max Keiser
Bitcoin is not just money for the internet. Yes, it's the internet of money, but it's so much more. Bitcoin is the internet of everything — a distributed global ledger of value.
— Andreas M. AntonopoulosTrusted third parties are security holes. The invention of Bitcoin removes the need to trust, and replaces trust with mathematical proof. This is the most important innovation in the history of money.
— Nick Szabo
Hashcash is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper because Bitcoin's proof-of-work is based directly on it. In a sense, Bitcoin is the monetisation of hashcash — digital scarcity made real.
— Adam BackBitcoin doesn't have any intrinsic value... it's going to zero.
— Peter Schiff, 2013 · (BTC was $100 at the time)I wanted to create a website where people could buy and sell anything anonymously, with no government interference. Bitcoin made that possible for the first time in history.
— Ross Ulbricht