"If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry." — Satoshi Nakamoto

"If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it's going to drive some value." — Brad Garlinghouse

" I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking. Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity and lighter weight, more efficient transactions." — Hal Finney

"As the value goes up, heads start to swivel, and sceptics soften.  Starting a new currency is easy. Anyone can do it. The trick is getting  people to accept it because it is their use that gives the 'money'  value." — Adam B. Levine

"I am very excited about the prospect of using cryptocurrency, not just as a money equivalent, but using it as a way to earn something as a result of doing some type of work." — William Mougayar

"Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar against anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury." — Adam Draper

"I love seeing new services constantly starting to accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin is really becoming ‘the currency of the Internet.’ I'm most concerned by possible government reactions to Bitcoin. They can't destroy Bitcoin, but they could really slow things down by making exchange much more difficult." — Michael Marquardt

"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them." — Hal Finney

"Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments." — Charles Lee

"Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth." — Brock Pierce

"Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0." — Gil Penchina

"I'm much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated upfront. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer." — Erik Voorhees

"Activists need to educate themselves about the power of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009 and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate." — Max Keiser

"What inspires me the most [about bitcoin] is the community driving it. It reminds me of the early internet. It's deeply principled, it's weird as hell [and] it's always evolving. It just reminded me of the internet as a kid." — Jack Dorsey

"Not understanding blockchain, it's going to smack you down and make you bleed." — Mark Cuban