The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
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… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
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… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
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… — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share
