Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft and richest person in the world.
"I think it's a technical tour de force but that it is an area where governments are going to maintain a dominant role." "Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don’t have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.”
Warren Buffett
EO of Berkshire Hathaway and the second richest person in the world.
"Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don’t have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.”
Dr. Eric Schmidt
olds a PhD in Computer Science, was CEO of Google and is now Executive Chairman. He is also ranked as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $8.3 billion.
"Technical answer in bitcoin is that bitcoin is a remarkable cryptography achievements."
"Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value"
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev has been the Russian Prime Minister since 8 May 2012. The Russian Prime Minister is considered the second highest position in the government, after the President.
"There are many examples of this, such as actively developing "blockchain" technologies. So called 'smart contracts' allow creation of self-regulated autonomous organizations independent of the State. Such systems take on a life of their own, transcending existing written laws. This presents extremely interesting phenomenon and challenge to legal scholars. It seems that in many such cases there exists a limit of what a law is able to achieve in principle. The deals that transfer property, that certify the property rights - it all happens in a highly automated fashion. ...Such novel situation calls for a concerted effort to deal with it. We need to analyze it. It puts non-standard tasks in front of the legal scholars, lawmakers.So non-standard solutions are needed that may lay the foundation for a completely new legal field. I hope for productive discussions regarding this issue among us."
Richard Branson
An English businessman and investor who is best known as the founder of Virgin Group comprising more than 400 companies. Branson is the seventh richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of US$4.9 billion."There's a big industry around and, you know people have made fortune out of bitcoin." "If people have lots of bitcoin and they want to go to space, I much rather they spend that money on a spaceship."
Chamath Palihapitiya
Venture capitalist and partial owner of the Golden State Warriors. In March 2013, Palihapitiya confirmed that his venture fund had raised over $275 million in its second round of fundraising. "It is a huge deal, it's a huge, huge, huge deal." "I mean I personally -- I own bitcoin in my hedge fund, I own bitcoin in my fund, I own bitcoin in my private account."
Lawrence Summers
n economist who is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University. He served as 71st Secretary of the Treasury of the United States from July 2, 1999 to January 20, 2001 and the 27th President of Harvard University from July 1, 2001 to June 20, 2006.
Dr. Patrick Byrne
Holds a Masters from Cambridge in Mathematical Logic and a PhD from Stanford in Philosophy. He is an investigative financial journalist, entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer, CEO and chairman of publicly traded Overstock.
Peter Thiel
Co-Founder of Paypal and investor in Bitcoin merchant processor Bitpay.
"I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world."
Julian Assange
Founder of Wikileaks.
"Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off."
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