70. “Bitcoin, crypto currencies, solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don’t trust anybody else. I’m a computer scientist, I thought that was impossible. These guys have proved it can be done.”

–Richard Brown, Executive Architect for IBM UK, Oct 22, 2013

71. “It’s gold for nerds.”

–Stephen Colbert, Comedian, April 17, 2013

72. Still thinking about #Bitcoin. No conclusion – not endorsing/rejecting. Know that folks also were skeptical when paper money displaced gold.

–Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs

73.”It just identifies how much money laundering there is being done in the world,” Fink said. “How much people are trying to move currencies from one place to another.”

–Larry Fink, CEO and Blackrock

74.The U.S. government will secretly start accumulating one of the smaller cryptocurrencies to make it easier for gray-area transactions with other countries.

–James Altucher, the author of the bestselling book “Choose Yourself” and an editor at The Altucher Report

75. It looks and smells like all the bubbles I have seen throughout history,” I Am Not Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto. Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s also forgotten where he keeps his cryptocurrency. … “Not true”

–Elon Musk, CEO and Chairman, Tesla

76. “I just don’t believe in this bitcoin thing. I think it’s going to implode one day. It’s Enron in the making,”

–Alwaleed bin Talal, Kingdom Holding Company chairman

77. Bitcoin is a digital currency, whose value is based directly on two things: use of the payment system today – volume and velocity of payments running through the ledger – and speculation on future use of the payment system. This is one part that is confusing people. It’s not as much that the Bitcoin currency has some arbitrary value and then people are trading with it; it’s more that people can trade with Bitcoin (anywhere, everywhere, with no fraud and no or very low fees) and as a result it has value.

–Marc Andreessen, an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz

78. “It looks and smells like all the bubbles I have seen throughout history,”

–Jim Rogers, legendary Investor, former partner of George Soros of Quantum Fund

79. “Bitcoin is an attempt to replace fiat currency and evade regulation and government intervention. I don’t think that’s going to be a success,”

–Ben Benarke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve