Accountants Quote by Walter Wriston

“But all those who used their knowledge in a bid to enact social change saw cryptography as a tool to enhance individual privacy and…

— Paul Vigna

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because…

— Julian Assange

“certainly influence the future course of cryptocurrencies, which we take up in chapter 14; governments everywhere are facing the question of how to balance…

— Kenneth Rogoff

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a…

— Gene Spafford

“Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology,”

— Neal Stephenson

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.

— Ted Lieu

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“We have an opportunity to reform the financial system, to turn it into the public utility that it’s supposed to be—a level playing field…

— Paul Vigna

I think that it is really important that there's federal oversight of the crypto industry.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

“At their core, cryptocurrencies are built around the principle of a universal, inviolable ledger, one that is made fully public and is constantly being…

— Paul Vigna

Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they…

— William Mougayar

What's happening in crypto - and certainly what's happening at Ripple - we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is…

— Brad Garlinghouse