Bitcoin Quote by Barry Silbert

“People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.”

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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so…

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Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in - it's going to…

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Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses…

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That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into…

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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

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Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so…

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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this…

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We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enthusiastic as ever about Bitcoin as…

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