A biography for Roger Verhasn’t been written yet.
“Bitcoin will experience many bubbles along its way to improving the lives of everyone on the planet. I'm not concerned with the short-term price fluctuations.”
“The most objective measurement we have is that the market actually valued the two split Ethereums more than it valued the one original Ethereum; the market viewed it as a good thing, and I don't see it as any sort of disaster whatsoever.”
“Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.”
“I consider the guys at Mt. Gox my friends.”
“Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.”
“Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.”
“I don't have much faith... in the government police.”
“You have to be really, really careful how you use bitcoin in order to use it privately.”
“I don't think it matters at all if the Bitcoin Foundation were to close.”
“Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.”
“St. Kitts' government is much more libertarian compared with the U.S. It's not even close.”
“Bitcoin is here to stay.”
“I think examples of free market transactions between peaceful people using Bitcoin and the Internet, I think it's a wonderful thing. It's going to make the world a better place.”
“Monero at a protocol level is very, very private and has that big advantage over bitcoin.”
“PayPal came within an inch of being shut down by regulators when they started. The feds seizing the Dwolla account and stealing the money that is owned by Mt. Gox customers is more proof that Bitcoin is the superior payment system.”
“If bitcoin is more expensive or slower than traditional financial systems, people aren't going to use it.”
“I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever.”
“People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.”
“Somehow I wound up with the nickname 'Bitcoin Jesus,' so people expect me to know about everything everywhere.”
“The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.”