Balaji Srinivasan

The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

— Balaji Srinivasan

Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

— Balaji Srinivasan

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive…

— 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,…

— Balaji Srinivasan

I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself…

— Balaji Srinivasan

I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know…

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed…

— Balaji Srinivasan

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

— 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…

— Balaji Srinivasan

Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we…

— Balaji Srinivasan

We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com…

— 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…

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the…

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

— 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…

— Balaji Srinivasan