"The whole point of doing ICOs is to get other people's bitcoins. " —Pierre Rochard

"[Bitcoin's] mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny." —Ludwig von Mises

"Bitcoin is cosmic, at its core." —Thibaud Marechal

"A lot of the dismissals, criticisms and attacks on Bitcoin come from people who have the luxury of having a stable financial system." —Alex Gladstein

"Bitcoin is perhaps the first scarce thing in the world we can say we truly possess." —Jimmy Song

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." —Satoshi Nakamoto

"Bitcoin enables individuals to reclaim and reassert their Natural Rights using a system that is inherently significantly harder to control." —Marty Bent

"Gold has been forever neutered by centralization." —Marty Bent

"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on." —Edward Snowden

"The good thing about bitcoin is that you know exactly the number — the magic number of 21 million." —Garry Kasparov

"The twin pillars of Bitcoin's value proposition: (1) It's possible to secure and transport your wealth without anyone's permission (2) Your wealth cannot be debased. Everything else is noise." —Vijay Boyapati

"First, there are no bitcoins. There just aren’t. They don’t exist. There are ledger entries in a ledger that’s shared […] They don’t exist in any physical location. The ledger exists in every physical location, essentially. Geography doesn’t make sense here." —Peter Van Valkenburgh

"The road to serfdom is working exponentially harder for a currency that is growing exponentially weaker." —Michael Saylor

"Bitcoin is not a luxury of rich countries. Bitcoin is a need of poor countries." —Florencia Ravenna

"Bitcoin is fate. It operates completely outside of any human agency, even if it was (possibly) some people that created it. For all you know about who Nakamoto was... Bitcoin might as well have created itself." —Mircea Popescu

"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on." —Edward Snowden

"No one has found the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole." —Jameson Lopp

"Bitcoiners hate good leaders and despise bad leaders." —Pierre Rochard

"No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem." —Julian Assange