Wences Casares quotes

“Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.”
-- Wences Casares

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“In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.”
-- Wences Casares

Source : "Wences Casares Explains Bitcoin". Chicago Gold Ideas Conference, www.weusecoins.com. March 16, 2015.

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“Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.”
-- Wences Casares

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“When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we're not paying attention! That's incredible. That's what had one chance in a million, and it already happened.”
-- Wences Casares

Source : "Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin". Interview with Ben Popper, www.theverge.com. August 29, 2014.

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“If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.”

“The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”

“Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.”

“Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.”