“If anything, the recourse to Christie’s and the introduction of blockchain “uniqueness” gives the lie to the techno-optimist pitch that NFTs allow an end run around the art establishment.”— Jason Farago, nytimes.com
“The Internet stack, in terms of how value is distributed, is composed of "thin" protocols and "fat" applications. As the market developed, we learned that investing in applications produced high returns whereas investing directly in protocol technologies generally produced low returns.”— Joel Monegro, usv.com
“I say if you do not become a millionaire in the next 10 years, then it’s your own fault.”— Erik Finman, nypost.com
“Both streetwear and cryptocurrency seem to offer alternatives to established systems that have adapted poorly to cultural shifts.”— Jeff Ihaza, ssense.com
“Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin brothers who became billionaires after the run-up in the price of Bitcoin and other digital assets toward the end of last year, have seen their fortunes drop 37 percent in the past month as the cryptocurrency plunged.”— Tom Metcalf, bloomberg.com
“U.S. dollars are not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who accept it as payment and of other fools who agree in turn to accept it as payment from them. The main difference is that, for the moment at least, the illusion, in the case of dollars, is more widely and more fiercely beli…”— Maria Bustillos, medium.com
“Started in 2014, monero is very different. It encrypts the recipient’s address on its blockchain and generates fake addresses to obscure the real sender. It also obscures the amount of the transaction.”— Olga Kharif, bloomberg.com
“There are more people that buy digital clothing than there are people who buy and sell crypto currencies. Its a giant market.”— Michael Novogratz, youtube.com
“It has no agreements with any blockchain firms, and says 'there is no assurance that a definitive agreement with these, or any other entity, will be entered into or ultimately consummated.'”— Arie Shapira, bloomberg.com
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, nakamotoinstitute.org
“We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work.”— Satoshi Nakamoto, p2pfoundation.ning.com
“CryptoKitties has become so popular that it's taking up a significant amount of available space for transactions on the Ethereum platform.”— Garrick Hileman, bbc.com
“One of the most popular ways to short bitcoin is through CFDs, a derivative that mirrors the movements of the asset. It’s a contract between the client and the broker, where the buyer and seller of the CFD agree to settle any rise or drop in prices in cash on the contract date.”— Camila Russo, bloomberg.com
“Cumberland, DRW’s digital-currency unit, says it has traded more than $20 billion worth of bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies in the past year.”— Alexander Osipovich, wsj.com
“Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing different things. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the protocol is written to sustain this cryptocurrency. Clearly, Ethereum platform has ETH, it is also a digital currency, but it exists to sustain the protocol.”— Vitalik Buterin, cointelegraph.com
“Instead of the scripting language being simply a way of describing the terms of relations between two parties, contracts were themselves fully-fledged accounts, and had the ability to hold, send and receive assets, and even maintain a permanent storage.”— Vitalik Buterin, vitalik.ca
“Ok, I am going to just stop commenting on bitcoin issues almost entirely and focus on ethereum tech. I think the community needs to go through *a lot* of healing, and the firebrands on all sides that are *so sure* that their side is righteous and the other evil deeply worry me.”— Vitalik Buterin, twitter.com
“We just broke over 500 hundred thousand transactions per day for the first time. Which in case you can't divide is something like 7 transactions a second.”— Vitalik Buterin, youtu.be
“In essence, Ethereum 2.0 will advance the core model of the protocol through sharding, which, to paraphrase his words, sharding is like creating a blockchain with a hundred different universes with different account spaces in each universe.”— COBINHOOD, medium.com