"The whole point of doing ICOs is to get other people's bitcoins. " —Pierre Rochard

"I realised, oh, this ledger is now being maintained on everyone’s computers in real time so no one can freeze it, no one can reverse it, no one can counterfeit, no one can double spend. That’s when it really clicked for me." —Charlie Shrem

"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. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail." —Hal Finney

"The end goal is Bitcoin itself." —Erik

"Can Bitcoin be stopped? "Not really, this thing is a beast. As Mises wrote: Ideas can only be overcome by other ideas."" —Trace Mayer

"Bitcoin is insurance against politicians." —Naval Ravikant

"Through owning bitcoin you are part of the revolution." —Dan Held

"I could potentially see a hard-fork in bitcoin, but only if the other option is that bitcoin dies. If anything is even vaguely debateable, then nothing will happen." —Tone Vays

"Money is the game which governs the greatest quantity of human time across history. Bitcoin is the only money in existence with rules that cannot be bent or broken.In this way, the importance of Bitcoin to the future coordination of human action can hardly be overstated." —Robert Breedlove

"If nuclear war destroyed half of our planet, [Bitcoin] would continue to live, uncorrupted." —Ralph Merkle