I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

The most objective measurement we have is that the market actually valued the two split Ethereums more than it valued the one original Ethereum; the market viewed it as a good thing, and I don't see it as any sort of disaster whatsoever.

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.