0/ When explaining the significance of bitcoin to precoiners, I've found it helpful to use the views of people they already trust and respect.

So here's a compilation of some of the brightest minds in tech, networks and investing on bitcoin.

feat. Jack, Woz and Naval

1/ perhaps best positioned to fully understand the evolution of digitally transacting value is @jack. The dual CEO of two multi-billon dollar companies with 100m+ combined users, Dorsey once stated he was personally acquiring $10k of btc per week.

2/ with a net worth in the region of $1.9bn, the co-founder of LinkedIn, member of the PayPal mafia and now partner at @GreylockVC has acknowledged he owns bitcoin. More recently, he was behind the Satoshi vs. Hamilton rap battle video- https://bit.ly/2RLZfgH 

3/ The Angel Philosopher (a.k.a @naval ) has been offering some of the most insightful commentary on bitcoin since 2013. As an early investor in Uber, twitter and producthunt, Ravikant has exposure to bitcoin through Metastable Capital.

4/ the co-founder of Netscape and @a16z , Andreessen serves on the board of Facebook, eBay and Oculus VR. In 2014 he penned the now famous NYT op-ed 'Why Bitcoin Matters' referring to bitcoin as a 'breakthrough in computer science.'
https://nyti.ms/38x7Mdg 

5/ Co-founding PayPal '88, parallels are often drawn between its original vision & btc. The WSJ reported in 2018 that Thiel's Founders Fund acquired $15-20m of bitcoin in mid-2017. He's also an investor in Layer1 which is focused on mining bitcoin w renewable energy in the US.

6/ with ~$2.5trn in customer assets under management, Johnson has been opening up the legacy giant to playing in the digit assets sphere, making venture investments in bitcoin-related businesses and mining it internally for educational purposes.
https://tcrn.ch/2EbcbVd 

7/ Statistician, former options trader, essayist and author. Taleb's books are recommended by some of the greatest rationalists of our era. His essay on bitcoin, which features as the forward to @saifedean 's The Bitcoin Standard, is here- https://bit.ly/2PHVlCz 

8/ Woz stated that he first purchased some bitcoin at $700, though for never specifically as an investment. He still regularly experiments with bitcoin and related hardware.

9/ former Facebook exec turned VC, Palihapitiya co-founded Social Capital in 2011. His fund has since exited Slack, Box and SurveyMonkey. In 2013, in conjunction with two partners, he claimed to have held 5% of all bitcoin in circulation.

10/ Legendary portfolio manager Bill Miller ( @B3_MillerValue ) is perhaps best known for beating the S&P every year between 1991-2005. Calling himself a 'bitcoin observer', Miller's firm holds bitcoin, viewing the asset as a binary option.

11/ This list only seems to be getting longer..

Paul Tudor Jones manages $7bn+ in assets as the CEO of Tudor Investment Corp, founded in 1980.

He has referred to #Bitcoin as a 'store of value' and is known for his investment philosophy of 'Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego'.

12/ Having spent 10 years as CEO of Google, and six years as Exec. Chairman (Google/Alphabet), Eric Schmidt is a fair judge of what constitutes 'remarkable'.

He had this to say back in 2014, praising #bitcoin 's architecture.

13/ Formerly of AT&T, Priceline and Virgin Mobile (USA), Dan Schulman has a deep understanding of markets and communications networks.

As CEO of PayPal since 2014, he recently confirmed to @polina_marinova that he personally owns #Bitcoin .

14/ Considered the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov sees Bitcoin and as 'inevitable'.

'I think it’s a natural response of technology to help the public regain the control that has been gradually lost to outside institutions.'

15/ Co-founding MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) in 1989, @michael_saylor is leading the charge for adopting #Bitcoin as the primary treasury reserve asset over USD.

“There’s 3,500 publicly traded companies with $5tr in their treasuries and it’s all melting.