Bill Gates

Called Bitcoin's design "a technical tour de force" on live Fox Business TV in 2013

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Event May 6, 2013 Added August 15, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Article

Bill Gates on Bitcoin: "A technical tour de force" — praise for the design, objections aimed elsewhere

One 2013 sentence praised Bitcoin's engineering and predicted governments would keep the upper hand. Gates's criticism since — anonymity, speculation, energy — never touched the design.