Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

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

I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

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 may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy.

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

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

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.

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.

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

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.

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.

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

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

The main idea with Brave is that you don't have to think about Bitcoin; you just have this frictionless payment system.

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

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

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

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?

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