--- layout: base lang: en id: press title: "Bitcoin Press Center - Bitcoin" dialogs: title: "Bitcoin Press Center - Bitcoin" pagetitle: "Bitcoin Press Center" summary: "Find interviewees, answers and high quality press materials." volunteer: "Interviewees" faq: "FAQ" faqmore: "To learn more about Bitcoin, please visit the complete FAQ or the Bitcoin Wiki." materialvideo: "Videos" materialvideoformat: "More formats and languages" materialvideoyoutube: "Video on Youtube" materialvideomore: "More videos" materialpicture: "Pictures" materialpicturemore: "Show more pictures..." materialquote: "Quotes" materialquotemore: "Show more quotes..." quotesatoshi: "With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless." quotetonygallippi: "Bitcoin is Money Over Internet Protocol." quotedankaminsky: "Entire classes of bugs are missing." quotechrisdixon: "There are 3 eras of currency: Commodity based, politically based, and now, math based." quotejeremyliew: "The potential for disruption is enormous." quotewencescasares: "Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser." quotetylerwinklevoss: "We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error." quotemaxkeiser: "It's the cheapest way to move money around." quotebillgates: "Bitcoin is a technological tour de force." quotegavinandresen: "You can basically put a bank in your pocket... That's pretty amazing." quotenavalravikant: "All the things that gold does, Bitcoin kind of does better." quotetimothylee: "Bitcoin allows wealth to be reduced to pure information and transmitted costlessly around the world—something nobody knew how to do before 2009. Its applications won’t be immediately obvious, especially to ordinary users." quoteandyskelton: "PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries ... Whatever the reason, we don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control." quotetuurdemeester: "The Babyboomers gave us the personal computer, Generation X gave us the Internet, and now Generation Y is building a new financial paradigm." quoterichardbrown: "Had you asked me five years ago, I would just say it was impossible. Bitcoin and crypto currencies solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else." quotefredwilson: "We believe that Bitcoin represents something fundamental and powerful ... It reminds us of SMTP, HTTP, RSS, and BitTorrent in its architecture and openness." quotejohndonohoe: "Digital currency is going to be a very powerful thing." quotefrancoisrvelde: "It represents a remarkable conceptual and technical achievement, which may well be used by existing financial institutions (which could issue their own bitcoins) or even by governments themselves." presscoverage: "Press coverage" --- {% comment %} TODO This page contains a lot of texts. But it could be translated if we have enough active translators in the future. {% endcomment %}

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Communicate with the Bitcoin Foundation or local non-profit organizations.

Find more potential press contacts at the independent bitcoinpresscenter.org.

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{{ page.dialogs.quotechrisdixon }}Chris Dixon, Technology Investor

{{ page.dialogs.quotewencescasares }}Wences Casares, Technology Entrepreneur

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{{ page.dialogs.quotedankaminsky }}Dan Kaminsky, Security Researcher

{{ page.dialogs.quotejeremyliew }}Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners

{{ page.dialogs.quotejohndonohoe }}John Donohoe, Ebay CEO

{{ page.dialogs.quotetylerwinklevoss }}Tyler Winklevoss, Entrepreneur

{{ page.dialogs.quotesatoshi }}Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin Developer

{{ page.dialogs.quotebillgates }}Bill Gates, Executive Chairman, Microsoft
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google

{{ page.dialogs.quotegavinandresen }}Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist, The Bitcoin Foundation

{{ page.dialogs.quotetimothylee }}Timothy B. Lee, Reporter, The Washington Post

{{ page.dialogs.quoteandyskelton }}Andy Skelton, Developer, WordPress

{{ page.dialogs.quotetuurdemeester }}Tuur Demeester, Author, MacroTrends

{{ page.dialogs.quoterichardbrown }}Richard Brown, Executive architect, IBM

{{ page.dialogs.quotefredwilson }}Fred Wilson, Co-Founder of Union Square Ventures

{{ page.dialogs.quotefrancoisrvelde }}François R. Velde, Economist, Federal Reserve

{{ page.dialogs.quotenavalravikant }}Naval Ravikant, Founder of Angellist

{{ page.dialogs.quotemaxkeiser }}Max Keiser, Journalist & TV Host

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Preview Finextra, Bullish on Bitcoin 2013-10-22

Richard Brown, executive architect, IBM thinks the future for crypto-currencies looks very bright.

Preview News Channel 8, Andrea Castillo discusses Bitcoin 2013-08-09

Andrea Castillio from the Mercatus Center discusses and explains Bitcoin.

Preview Financial Times, The rise of Bitcoin 2013-07-05

Bitcoin, a decentralized, virtual currency, is garnering increasing interest from investors and entrepreneurs. Maija Palmer reports from a Bitcoin conference on where the currency is heading and goes to buy her first (fraction) of a Bitcoin.

Preview Forbes, Why bitcoiners believe in the digital currency 2013-05-13

After a week of living on the crypto-currency, Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill invites Bitcoin enthusiasts to a dinner meet-up to help her spend the rest of her digital wallet and share their views on the alternative currency.

Preview The Guardian, Berlin streets where you can shop with Bitcoin 2013-04-26

The Guardian meets the Bitcoin Kiez, among the first point-of-sales shops and restaurants to accept Bitcoin.

Preview Bloomberg on the future of Bitcoin currency 2013-04-11

Convergex's Nicholas Colas and Holland & Company's Michael Holland discuss the future of Bitcoin on Bloomberg Television's.

Preview FOX Business with Trace Mayer 2013-04-05

Is Bitcoin for real? Bitcoin investor Trace Mayer explains the virtual currency.

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