Rickard Falkvinge Quotes

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

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

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

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.

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.

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

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

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.

Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.

Maybe bitcoin is a kind of a bubble. I don't like it. I'm not comfortable with it. I'm kind of an old dog to be absorbing that kind of a new trick.

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.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.

I do think the blockchain infrastructure is here to stay.

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

Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.

By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0.

Activists can improve their alternative media success by embracing alternative currencies like Bitcoin.

I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.

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.

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

Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.