"Bitcoin introduces a platform on which you can run currency as an application on a network without any central points of control. A system completely decentralized like the internet itself. It is not money for the internet but the internet of money."
"And what is money? Money is a language. Money is a linguistic abstraction. Money is a language that we use to communicate value to each other."
"You cannot operate closed systems that have borders and require permission to join with a rate of innovation that is controlled by the most conservative tendencies within your organization because now you are competing with a technology that enables exponential growth, exponential innovation, at the edges, without permission by anyone in the world."
"In the history of money that now spans tens of thousands of years there have been maybe 5 major changes. From pure barter exchange to the introduction of the first abstraction of value: shells, feathers, beads, nuts, stones, and then precious metals, and then paper money, and then plastic money, and now network money."
"When you take digital currency mainstream and give it to the 4 billion people who have been isolated from international finance and commerce, and you give them the opportunity to control their money from despotic governments and corrupt banks that are stealing from them, you give them the opportunity to control their future."
