Max Keiser Quotes

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.

Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational... tt is not a rational currency in that case.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

Bitcoin as an asset class is brilliant, as a means of payment, fantastic.

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.

My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.

I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.

We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.

Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn't just a flash in the pan.

By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.

There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value of government-created money, although Bitcoin is newer, and we always look at babies with hope.

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100.

In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the financial press was filled with reportage on Bitcoin and its dramatic price increase.

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for the bitcoin; they value it because they believe that they can exchange it for something else.

I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn't have the same controls. It's not going to happen.

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.

Bitcoin's revolution: an impossible-to-counterfeit digital store of value that can be used as money, that has no sovereign, or central bank involved, that can be sent anywhere instantly at virtually no cost, is irresistible. Anyone who uses it is converted.

Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen.