What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don't trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.
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Related We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enth... BARRY SILBERT Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just develop... BARRY SILBERT Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a curren... ERIK VOORHEES Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good wa... BILL GATES You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a moneta... BARRY SILBERT It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under thei... JANINE DI GIOVANNI If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going t... ROGER VER I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of ca... ALAN GREENSPAN Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is alread... FRED EHRSAM Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about go... GAVIN ANDRESEN I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin. GAVIN ANDRESEN The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying curren... ADAM DRAPER There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ... GAVIN ANDRESEN Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, bec... BEN CARSON The scripting language in Bitcoin is important because it is what makes Bitcoin 'programmable mo... FRED EHRSAM You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other... GAVIN ANDRESEN I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating t... OLAF CARLSON-WEE Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped.... JAMIE DIMON What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain a... ADAM DRAPER There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, route... NAVAL RAVIKANT There is nothing that Bitcoin can do which Ethereum can't. While Ethereum is less battle-tested,... FRED EHRSAM You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven... ALAN GREENSPAN Bitcoin has been described as a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency that is used like money... PERIANNE BORING It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awfu... CHARLIE WATTS We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. I... PATRICK M. BYRNE Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government... PATRICK M. BYRNE I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of... ADAM DRAPER Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for tr... FRED EHRSAM I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... OLAF CARLSON-WEE I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than... BARBARA BUSH I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it d... WES ANDERSON Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a... DOUGLAS ADAMS That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has... BARRY SILBERT You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combinatio... TYLER WINKLEVOSS I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. SEBASTIAN COE It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We... SALLY YATES Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as ... ADAM DRAPER It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit B... NAVAL RAVIKANT Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion ... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank. ADAM DRAPER I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something ... TOM VILSACK People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, s... NAVAL RAVIKANT China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There&... NAVAL RAVIKANT What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy... WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I th... FRED EHRSAM Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the ... ADAM DRAPER After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling Pa... DAVID O. SACKS Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also ... ERIK VOORHEES BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer netwo... DAN KAMINSKY At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates ... PETER DIAMANDIS For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is... PATRICK M. BYRNE What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currenc... ADAM DAVIDSON I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfact... SETH ROGEN I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place. ELLIOTT SMITH The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems... BEN CARSON You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ... MATT ROBINSON For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But... ADAM DRAPER The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall... PATRICK M. BYRNE Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it'... ERIK VOORHEES Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection. DAN KAMINSKY Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earni... BALAJI SRINIVASAN There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, qu... STEWART LEE There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people ... MAURICE FLANAGAN I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than th... ANDY COHEN We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad. BALAJI SRINIVASAN MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are ... MAX KEISER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a ... ADAM MCKAY Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the... IGGY POP The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running arou... MARC ANDREESEN With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that. CAMERON WINKLEVOSS When you drill down, blockchains are really a shared version of reality everyone agrees on. So wheth... FRED EHRSAM There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of th... ZACHARY LEVI The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and ... ERIK VOORHEES The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It... BARRY SILBERT It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ... DONNA SHALALA I'm very happy at CNBC. It's the passion, it's the movement - there's a lot of movin... RICK SANTELLI I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People... NATE RUESS Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell th... MARK SKOUSEN There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dicta... JAMES BOVARD There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants... TREY GOWDY Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-... FRANK RICH Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do... SUNDAY ADELAJA To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in... MARTIN MULL There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El - Kal-El's the better way of saying it because he is bot... HENRY CAVILL Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the re... EULA BISS Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin str... PERIANNE BORING What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. BEN HECHT The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a v... STEVE JOBS A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own... BEN SAVAGE Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of soci... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't th... CAROLINE KNAPP While there are really no better or worse rates from banks or insurance, ... rental or corporate fle... GARY MILLER I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don'... PEYTON MANNING Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. GEORGE H. W. BUSH The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that ... SIMON SINEK I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pa... ELON MUSK
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