Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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BARRY SILBERT You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily. PETER PORTER I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical a... BALAJI SRINIVASAN There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two per... HARVEY BALL There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about go... GAVIN ANDRESEN Protect your space and circle. Invest in people who you know will feed you just as much goodness as ... ALEXANDRA ELLE Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I th... FRED EHRSAM All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take i... RATKO MLADIC While it's not obvious to people now, in the long-run, the permissionless innovation that Bitcoi... NICK TOMAINO People can be so cold, they will hurt you, and desert you, they will take your soul if you let them,... JAMES TAYLOR For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But... ADAM DRAPER People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for. ALLAN MILLER People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for. ALLAN RAYMOND MILLER The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all th... NAVAL RAVIKANT I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin. GAVIN ANDRESEN As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services,... BARRY SILBERT People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO That's quite small when compared to the number of people in Arizona on a social service basis. We wi... JEANINE L'ECUYER Bitcoin has been described as a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency that is used like money... PERIANNE BORING As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin ... BARRY SILBERT When the actual Bitcoin network launched in 2009, no one knew about it, and many of those who did th... FRED EHRSAM We will be trying to appeal to a large group of people with our items. There will be some eclectic a... KATIE KING I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour... ELTON JOHN Slowly more and more people are realizing that this is the way to go. Within five years most people ... ANTHONY WEI Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy. TIMOTHY C. DRAPER People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit ... FRANK ROMER I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individual... GEORGE CARLIN Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a curren... ERIK VOORHEES You will be practicing with them twice a day, and they are just as good as you are. They will be jus... JUSTIN BRAY What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globall... ADAM DRAPER Gemini is a spot bitcoin exchange. To use it, you sign up with Gemini.com and undergo the initial st... TYLER WINKLEVOSS All ways will lead and take you there as long as you know where you want to go. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE You can take this as far as you want with me and I will go with it 100 percent. DANIEL JONES Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so al... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of th... LOUIS B. ROSENBERG Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell th... MARK SKOUSEN There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to ... OLAF CARLSON-WEE Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental sys... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p... LAUREN OLIVER You take a bit of a shot in the dark and usually offer them to a broad group of people. But it is a ... ALAN GLICKSTEIN Naturally I will take another look at our strategy here, considering many opinions from within and o... TAKASHI SENSUI It's important that each individual knows this can happen and knows how to take care of themselves b... JACK RICHARDSON I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, route... NAVAL RAVIKANT The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transfer... FRED EHRSAM Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of soci... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS This year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man; exert more effort in each of my endeavors pro... DUANE ALLMAN If we can go up and learn those lanes and shoot like this, I'll take my chances. There will be some ... MARK MAY Of those planning to use additional credit in March, almost half were using it because they have to ... ALLEN GROMMET We want people who will take care of these buildings and cherish them. GREG SEKULA Everybody has to move; run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because... ARIEL SHARON I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phone... BLU CANTRELL Soon this shall pass. People will come and people will go. You either accept or not. Choose what's w... KELLY KNIGHT But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it. DALEY THOMPSON The pressure was there to keep taking shots but when you're not making them you don't want to take a... KAREEM RUSH I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.' ADAM DRAPER Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thin... GARRY TAN There will be some healthy competition within the girls squad to see who will make up the top five. ... BRIAN BULLIS A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue t... JOYCE MEYER Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good wa... BILL GATES Food is like a legal drug. 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