Erik Voorhees Quotes

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.

Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.

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.

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

We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be done in code by Bitcoin.

It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

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

I get very worried that people that are buying bitcoins don't really understand what they're participating in other than the headline stories that it keeps going higher and 'I want to make sure I don't miss this opportunity to make some money.'

Working on Ethereum could be similar to working at a Google: lower risk with broad impact right away. Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential.

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

Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.

As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

Can we all please - I don't want anybody buying cryptocurrencies, okay? Stop it. Enough already. Or buy Bitcoin, don't buy Ethereum.

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.

What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?

Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.

Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.

Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies.

When Coinbase was starting, we thought we were seeing the birth of something that was really important - what I would almost describe as the future fabric of society - the system for who we are - our identities, what we own, our assets.

I don't want to be one of those rappers who had it, but right now they be on a TV show to keep them going. I would rather be out the scene, getting my money on Bitcoin.

If the U.S. government tries to restrict or clamp down, that just means there will be many more bitcoin businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore, and all those Americans will miss out on all the opportunities.

I don't think it matters at all if the Bitcoin Foundation were to close.

Whenever the price of cryptocurrency is rallying, people start spending a lot more.

I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

I think fiat currencies will become digital.