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

I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.