Bill Gates Quotes

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

The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.

Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

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

The bigger thing with bitcoin is not bitcoin itself, but what does that decentralized technology really do?

Bitcoin is not currency; it's the internet of money!

Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.

I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.

The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.

Distributed ledger technology is fashionable. In fact, if you could wear it, you'd put Ralph Lauren out of business, at least in my case.

For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

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

Bitcoin has a core technological innovation: The ability to publicly verify ownership, instantly transfer that ownership, and do so without the need for a trusted third party.

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

The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.

With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.