Scarce Quotes by Balaji Srinivasan

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

— Balaji Srinivasan

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

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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…

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

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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

Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.

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

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

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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…

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

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

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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