Vitalik Buterin Quotes

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

I don't think Bitcoin cares what the Chinese or American politicians do.

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

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.

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

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

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

To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.

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.'

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.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

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

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

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

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

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about 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.

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

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

We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.

As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it's both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value.

Bitcoin will experience many bubbles along its way to improving the lives of everyone on the planet. I'm not concerned with the short-term price fluctuations.