Brian Armstrong Quotes

There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

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.

Earlier, physical currency used to dominate. Now, mobile currency or digital currency is dominating. For digital currency, fintech is very crucial.

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

The Ripple network is a protocol. It's like HTTP for money. Users, merchants, anyone can use it for free without a license.

Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.

I don't think it's any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.

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

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

To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

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

Digital currency is not going away. It's here to stay.

What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one's been able to answer that question for me.

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.

If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.

After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal's original vision to create 'the new world currency.'

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