Adam Draper

“China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.”

“What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.”

“The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.”

“I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'”

“In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.”

“I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!”

“Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.”

“I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.”

“I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.”

“The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.”

“I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.”

“Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.”

“Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.”

“There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.”

“The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.”

“If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.”

“A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.”

“I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.”

“Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.”

“For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.”