31. “If you were in Venezuela or Ecuador or North Korea or a bunch of parts like that, or if you were a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that, you are better off doing it in bitcoin than U.S. dollars,” he said. “So there may be a market for that, but it’d be a limited market.”

-Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

32. “We are not hearing any demand from our clients,” he said. “We are not hearing clients saying ‘we want to use this as an asset class.’ No.”

–Larry Fink, CEO and Blackrock

33. “When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought it was impossible. How can you have a purely digital currency? Can’t I just copy your hard drive and have your bitcoins? I didn’t understand how that could be done, and then I looked into it and it was brilliant”

–Jeff Garzik, Co-Founder of Bloq Inc, a contributor to Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin developer

34. (porn) Bitcoin would be convenient for people who don’t have a credit card or don’t want to use the cards they have, either don’t want the spouse to see it on the bill or don’t trust giving their number to “porn guys”, or afraid of recurring billing.

–Satoshi Nakamoto, Founder of Bitcoin

35. “I sold at $5,000 or $4,980,” he said. “Then three weeks later I’m trying to buy it in the low $3,000s. If you’re good at that and you’re a trading junkie, it’s a lot of fun.”

–Mike Novogratz, hedge fund manager, Galaxy Digital Assets

36. “The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn’t cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn’t cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.”

–Tim Draper, managing partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson

37. “I love seeing new services constantly starting to accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin is really becoming “the currency of the Internet.” I’m most concerned by possible government reactions to Bitcoin. They can’t destroy Bitcoin, but they could really slow things down by making exchange much more difficult.”

–Michael Marquardt, known by the username Theymos, is an administrator on Bitcoin Talk as well as a moderator on Reddit

38. “Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments”

–Charles Lee, Creator of Litecoin, ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase

39. With Bitcoin, there are a lot more methods with microlending, where you can have communities using cryptocurrencies to help themselves without any intermediaries.”

–Shawn Wilkinson, the founder of Storj, a cloud-storage service