"Bitcoin is fate. It operates completely outside of any human agency, even if it was (possibly) some people that created it. For all you know about who Nakamoto was... Bitcoin might as well have created itself." —Mircea Popescu

"It's 21 million or death." —Robert Breedlove

"Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet." —Edward Snowden

"Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space." —Bruce Schneier

"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

"In the near future, the government having a monopoly on money will seem as strange as the government having a monopoly on religion or language." —Conner Brown