Roger Ver Quotes

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

Bitcoin is here to stay.

Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency.

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

Before I went to prison, there were not really many blockchain products. It was only bitcoin.

You have to be really, really careful how you use bitcoin in order to use it privately.

One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.

Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.

The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.

Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.

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

The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's privacy.

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

Anybody who has enough information about what's going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.

If you're someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years.

Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

Blockchain is really exciting technology because it's actually providing both transparency but also agility in a contractual relationship that any organization should have.

I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.

Blockchain technologies will change transactions in a broad way.

When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in just the right way - computer science, cryptography, and economic incentives - was astonishing.

You look at Bitcoin, and it is an entirely new currency, completely decentralized, anonymous; transactions occur incredibly fast for free, all designed by the free market.

I like my privacy.