Peter Schiff says Bitcoin is “not gonna go to zero.”
“The United States has frozen Venezuelans gold, Russia’s gold, they’ve gone after China’s gold. You can’t do that with an asset than cannot be censored.” - Anthony Pompliano
Julian Assange explaining Bitcoin back in 2014:
"The most interesting thing happening is bitcoin, it's probably the most interesting intellectual development on the internet."
"Bitcoin, it's underlying technology, breaks Orwell's dictum by providing proof of publishing at a certain time and that is the intellectual underpinning of that whole system."
Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University on being self sovereign with Bitcoin:
"The Michael Saylor followers right now who think that they're somehow Bitcoiners when they own a preferred stock that sits in their brokerage account and can be censored at any time... There's operational risks with that and there's leverage risks. And the actual Bitcoin that secures the assets of the balance sheet of the company is sitting at various custodians."
"Having things in centralized places, having Bitcoin IOUs or anything like this is a big mistake."
"If you don't know how to move Bitcoin around, if you don't know how to send it on-chain... you're going to be dependent on larger services. And the risk is that those don't even have the Bitcoin that they say that they do."
KENT HALLIBURTON: "If you want to be able to send value outside your borders, Bitcoin is really the only reliable way that you can do that without another government censoring you."
"It's asymmetric. Me as a single individual, I can project my power because you have to extract the secret key or my private seed phrase to be able to move my Bitcoin. And that goes the same for every individual, whether they're an entity or an individual."
"Can the US government just force their way into stealing Iranian Bitcoin? No, I don't think they can."
"They've just managed to put a gun to the head of the exchange operator and have them send all their Bitcoin to the US."
Vijay Boyapati explains how serious TradFi is taking Bitcoin:
"You better believe that they're going to be pushing adoption when you have people like Charles Schwab... they're the biggest broker in the country... So i'm BULLISH on adoption."
ARTHUR HAYES: "I don't think most people want financial freedom at the end of the day."
"It's all about what am I going to do for you that's not going to cost you anything. And the reason why they're able to do that is because they have access to the printing press and fractional reserve banking and the way the system is set up."
"The average person in the world does not want sound money. They want to get the free thing, but their neighbor doesn't get it."
"There will be those who appreciate hard money, who appreciate being able to save and beat inflation... But from a human perspective, I don't think that humanity is going to move to hard money, but maybe AI agents will."
Matthew Kratter from Bitcoin University explains what happens if Bitcoin doesn't succeed:
"The one thing that we definitely want to keep free and and open is is money itself. And to the extent that Bitcoiners hold their own keys, run their own nodes, it gives us hope that the money will not be turned off and captured."
"Money is the ultimate form of government control. And so this is one thing that Bitcoin is trying to do is trying to route around fiat money and help to develop a parallel system that is less captured."
"The gold standard failed once and gold doesn't give you the same freedom that Bitcoin does."