ROGER VER

If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.

At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

I consider the guys at Mt. Gox my friends.

Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.

I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever.

St. Kitts' government is much more libertarian compared with the U.S. It's not even close.

Anybody who has enough information about what's going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

The U.S. is making it extremely difficult for me to stop being American.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.

I don't think Bitcoin cares what the Chinese or American politicians do.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

If the U.S. government tries to restrict or clamp down, that just means there will be many more bitcoin businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore, and all those Americans will miss out on all the opportunities.

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.

I don't think it matters at all if the Bitcoin Foundation were to close.

Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than later.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.

Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.

Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

I don't think it's any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.