Top 7 quotes on digital currency by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

My belief is that the vast majority of people using digital currency today are not seeking to evade taxes. They are simply investors seeking returns and people interested in a nascent new technology.

We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.

By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we’ll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried.

Most big breakthroughs are contrarian ideas that people dismiss and ridicule at the start.

We do have a responsibility as an industry and policymakers and regulators to get a bunch of regulatory clarity, especially for the centralized pieces of crypto.

We need to be held to a higher standard because digital currency is so new and interesting and powerful that it is attractive to a lot of people out there to try to steal it.

I do think some digital currency will end up being the reserve currency of the world. I see a path where that's going to happen.