"Decentralized and private payments are a necessary innovation for a digital future where we retain our civil liberties and personal freedoms." —Alex Gladstein

"If you're not pro-Bitcoin, you hate the environment." —Matt Odell

"Ask not what bitcoin can do for you, but what you can do for bitcoin." —Adam Back

"There are only going to be 21 million coins, there are billions of people in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might find it interesting to own a piece of Bitcoin." —Adam Back

"We don't have to have this big giant massive collapse. It just organically blows up, one-by-one, as people move to a harder, sounder money. And in the process, Bitcoin becomes a black hole on the world's balance sheet." —Trace Mayer

"I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building." —Dan Held