Brian Armstrong Quotes

It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

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

Anybody who has enough information about what's going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.

I don't think Bitcoin cares what the Chinese or American politicians do.

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.

I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control.

While it may seem scarier in the earlier days, I think ultimately the blockchain creates a safer world.

Mt. Gox was a teachable moment for everyone in the Bitcoin community, and ShapeShift has innovated these problems out of the picture.

If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds.

Our main concern will always be security.

This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

Ethereum will be a first-class citizen on Coinbase.

The regulation picture has gotten a lot clearer in the U.S. and most of Europe. And that's fantastic. I think that's why you're seeing companies like Microsoft and Dell accepting Bitcoins.

We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

I think security is a big issue for people.

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy.

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

In the longterm for Bitcoin, Gox needed to go away.