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

"[Bitcoin's] mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny." —Ludwig von Mises

"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

"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

"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