Erik Voorhees Quotes

At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world.

If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds.

We will not allow the use of crypto-currency as a surrogate money.

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

Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

I consider the guys at Mt. Gox my friends.

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

If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it's going to drive some value.

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.

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

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

If Ripple as a company went away, XRP would continue to trade. To me, that's the definition of decentralization.

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.

Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.

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

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

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

Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

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

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

I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control.

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