Balaji Srinivasan

I'm interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I'm also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing. ”

Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical. ”

If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains. ”

Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM. ”

Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation. ”

We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology. ”

Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more. ”

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds. ”

The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant. ”

By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens. ”