80. Thousands of crypto companies will be created and go public, but only a few will be massive successes.
–James Altucher, the author of the bestselling book “Choose Yourself” and an editor at The Altucher Report
81. “Bitcoin, or some kind of cryptocurrency, has the ability to decouple African Americans from the economic system in a positive manner,” he says. “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
82. “The important function of a currency is, it’s a means of payment, it has to be generally accepted, it has to be a store of value and it’s a transaction currency. Bitcoin is only a transaction currency.”
–Axel Weber, UBS Chairman and former Bundesbank President
83. We should write songs about Bitcoin. It won’t stop going up. I’ve never seen an investment like it in my life.
–Dr. Boyce Watkins, Founder and CEO of Watkins Enterprises, former professor of finance at Syracuse University
84.Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.
–Satoshi Nakamoto, Founder of Bitcoin
85.“We are just seeing a classic hype cycle. The Internet in 2001, the NASDAQ crashed down. In many ways, bitcoin is the most exciting technology since the Internet, we think,”
–Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
86. “Cryptocurrency Protocols Are Like Onions.”
–Vitalik Buterin, programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine
87. “I understand the political ramifications of [cryptocurrencies] and I think that government should stay out of them and they should be perfectly legal.”
–Ron Paul, Former U.S. representative and presidential candidate
88. Despite the optimism, there will be a massive wipeout, and 95 percent of the alt-coins out there will go away — just like the dot-com bust. The surviving coins will go up a ton. This will happen within next four-six months.
–James Altucher, the author of the bestselling book “Choose Yourself” and an editor at The Altucher Report
89. “There’s no question that Bitcoin has the capacity to accelerate other activities in the community that are destructive, because of its arms-length nature,” he says. “I think for many people in the black community who have heard of Bitcoin and have associated it with the an illicit marketplace, they will keep away from it so as not to introduce it into a community that has enough issues with alternative economies.”
–Nicholas Pearce, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management
