A Quote by Anurag Thakur

The government is very much open when it comes to digital currencies.

Anurag Thakur

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Anurag Thakur
Indian - Politician
Born: October 24, 1974

I believe the world has shifted from asked 'if' digital currencies will succeed to 'how and when' digital currencies will become mainstream.

Meltem Demirors

Most 'digital currencies' are not really digital currencies at all.

Erik Voorhees

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Bernard Lietaer

In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and early users.

Meltem Demirors

Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies.

Vitalik Buterin

Digital currencies present a chance for money to truly become information, and for the creation of a global financial system that is truly frictionless, open, and uncensored - the vision we once had for the Internet.

Meltem Demirors

A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.

Jeff Berwick

I think fiat currencies will become digital.

Tyler Winklevoss

We saw for a time that digital currencies were radioactive to banks, but that's not the case anymore.

Chris Larsen

I dream of a Digital India where government is open, and governance is transparent.

Narendra Modi

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Perianne Boring

I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.

Abigail Johnson

Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.

Ryan Holmes

The IRS issued guidance for virtual currencies on March 25, 2014 that stated virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, are to be treated as property for federal tax purposes. This requires capital gains on virtual currencies to be recorded and reported. The Bitcoin Foundation says this could lead to unrealistic reporting.

Perianne Boring

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.