Balaji Srinivasan

Businessman

United States

1980 - Present

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I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.
Balaji Srinivasan
There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
Balaji Srinivasan
It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
Balaji Srinivasan
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
Balaji Srinivasan
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
Balaji Srinivasan
We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.
Balaji Srinivasan
Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
Balaji Srinivasan
The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
Balaji Srinivasan
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
Balaji Srinivasan