Erik Voorhees Quotes

Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power.

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

To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.

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

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

At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

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.

Bitcoins - it's freedom. It's very American.

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

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

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

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

I'm motivated by the positive ways in which Bitcoin use being widespread will make the world a better place.

I think examples of free market transactions between peaceful people using Bitcoin and the Internet, I think it's a wonderful thing. It's going to make the world a better place.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

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

In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.

China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

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

Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.

We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.