"Bitcoin is cosmic, at its core." —Thibaud Marechal

"A lot of the dismissals, criticisms and attacks on Bitcoin come from people who have the luxury of having a stable financial system." —Alex Gladstein

"Bitcoin is perhaps the first scarce thing in the world we can say we truly possess." —Jimmy Song

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." —Satoshi Nakamoto

"Bitcoin enables individuals to reclaim and reassert their Natural Rights using a system that is inherently significantly harder to control." —Marty Bent

"Gold has been forever neutered by centralization." —Marty Bent

"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on." —Edward Snowden

"The good thing about bitcoin is that you know exactly the number — the magic number of 21 million." —Garry Kasparov

"The twin pillars of Bitcoin's value proposition: (1) It's possible to secure and transport your wealth without anyone's permission (2) Your wealth cannot be debased. Everything else is noise." —Vijay Boyapati

"First, there are no bitcoins. There just aren’t. They don’t exist. There are ledger entries in a ledger that’s shared […] They don’t exist in any physical location. The ledger exists in every physical location, essentially. Geography doesn’t make sense here." —Peter Van Valkenburgh