There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad. — 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 Image
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 Image
The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains. — Balaji Srinivasan Copy Share Image
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 Image
