“Bitcoin has built its reputation and structured its virtual currency around being both anti-government and anti-establishment.” Picture resource: https://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/31294/
Mercedes Kelley Tunstall
Chambers USA-noted consumer finance regulatory and former bank in-house counsel and FTC lawyer | Picture resource
“For many reasons the crypto-assets in your digital wallets are unlikely to be the future of money [...] But that is not meant to dismiss them. Their core technology is already having an impact. Bringing crypto-assets into the regulatory tent could potentially catalyze innovations to serve the public better.” Picture resource: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/mark-carney/biography
Mark Carney
Governor, The Bank of England
“An exchange based on trading kiddy cards does not seem like a sound foundation for a monetary system.” Picture resource: https://digitalchamber.org/dc-blockchain-summit-2018/james-j-angel/
James J. Angel
Professor in finance at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University
"[Bitcoin is]certainly something more than just a fad [...] The concept of anonymous currency is a very interesting concept -- interesting for the privacy protections it gives people, interesting because what it says to the central-banking system about controlling that.” Picture resource: https://www.ced.org/people/single/james-p.-gorman
James Gorman
Chief executive officer, Morgan Stanley
On bitcoin interceders: “The most paranoid class of investors. They’re hoarding it to ward off what they believe is hyper inflation. They don’t trust the Fed. They don’t trust the government. They don’t trust central banks.” Picture resources: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/nobel-prize-winning-economist-and-new-york
Paul Krugman
New York Times writer
“We need better cross-border payments [...] because it’s good for development, it’s good for financial inclusion, [...] So Bitcoin can help us, it can pay us a service by forcing us to upgrade our systems. That’s a positive lesson. [The international community still needs to understand and] control these gateways between the shadow-currency universe and the regular financial system.” Picture resource: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/orga/decisions/html/cvcoeure.en.html
Benoit Coeure
Executive board member, European Central Bank
“People get excited from big price movements, and Wall Street accommodates [… ]. You can’t value Bitcoin because it’s not a value-producing asset. [It is a] real bubble.” Picture resource: http://cafef.vn/warren-buffett-se-lam-gi-khi-thi-truong-lao-doc-20180209115019802.chn
Warren Buffett
Chief executive officer, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and billionaire investor:
“I believe there is still a nontrivial chance Bitcoin goes to zero, but each day it does not, that chance declines as more venture capital flows into the Bitcoin ecosystem and more people become familiar with Bitcoin and buy it.” Picture rescue: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/01/16/bill-miller-hopkins-philosophy-gift/
Bill Miller
Founder, Miller Value Partners
"[Bitcoin is the] biggest bubble in human history [and the] mother of all bubbles”. Picture rescue: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058946_2059124_2059122,00.html
Nouriel Roubini
Professor of economics at New York University, who predicted the global financial crisis of 2008
“I tend to think of bitcoin as an experiment. It is an interesting experiment, but it’s not a permanent feature of our lives […] We are over-emphasising bitcoin, we should expand it out to blockchain, which will have other applications.” Picture resource: https://www.fordfoundation.org/ford-forum/robert-shiller-bio.html
Robert Shiller
Nobel prize-winning economist