Fred Ehrsam

The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.

— Fred Ehrsam

At GDAX, we want to see new protocols and their tokens flourish.

— Fred Ehrsam

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.

— Fred Ehrsam

Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.

— Fred Ehrsam

Ethereum will be a first-class citizen on Coinbase.

— Fred Ehrsam

AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on.

— Fred Ehrsam

Developer mindshare is the most important thing to have in digital currency.

— Fred Ehrsam

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

— Fred Ehrsam

Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.

— Fred Ehrsam

Tokens align incentives between developers, contributors, users, and investors. They allow everyone who wants to contribute to a project early the opportunity…

— Fred Ehrsam

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

— Fred Ehrsam

Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, 'Let's do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.' A token…

— Fred Ehrsam

Redistributing tokens is a balancing act. In most cases, forks probably want to keep ownership for users constant so users have at…

— Fred Ehrsam

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves…

— Fred Ehrsam

If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure…

— Fred Ehrsam

Bitcoin has a core technological innovation: The ability to publicly verify ownership, instantly transfer that ownership, and do so without the need…

— Fred Ehrsam

Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is already creating as transactions flow over it.…

— Fred Ehrsam

When the actual Bitcoin network launched in 2009, no one knew about it, and many of those who did thought it would…

— Fred Ehrsam

When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in…

— Fred Ehrsam

Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How…

— Fred Ehrsam

Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like…

— Fred Ehrsam

I think it's fundamentally a good sign that more and more professional traders and market makers are providing liquidity to the whole…

— Fred Ehrsam

When you drill down, blockchains are really a shared version of reality everyone agrees on. So whether it's a fully immersive VR…

— Fred Ehrsam

There's been a myth perpetuated where people think, 'I need to go into consulting, banking, finance, law, or medicine to make a…

— Fred Ehrsam

For the foreseeable future, I'm all about building blockchain-based decentralized services.

— Fred Ehrsam

Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel…

— Fred Ehrsam

Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.

— Fred Ehrsam

Private funding was one of the first methods used when MIT funded Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and…

— Fred Ehrsam

Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring…

— Fred Ehrsam

The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way…

— Fred Ehrsam

Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of…

— Fred Ehrsam

At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the…

— Fred Ehrsam

Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is…

— Fred Ehrsam

Sales conducted on-chain through smart contracts couldn't really be done before Ethereum, which is why they are a newer concept. I think…

— Fred Ehrsam

The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

— Fred Ehrsam

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes…

— Fred Ehrsam

While it may seem scarier in the earlier days, I think ultimately the blockchain creates a safer world.

— Fred Ehrsam

AIs trained on open data are more likely to be neutral and trustworthy instead of biased by the interests of the corporation…

— Fred Ehrsam

The scripting language in Bitcoin is important because it is what makes Bitcoin 'programmable money'. Within each Bitcoin transaction is the ability…

— Fred Ehrsam

The ability to easily buy and sell Bitcoin has been a really key factor in accelerating Bitcoin adoption.

— Fred Ehrsam