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Charlie Shrem

(1989) Entrepreneur

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Charlie Shrem is an entrepreneur.

Quick Facts About Charlie Shrem

Born: November 25, 1989
Profession: Entrepreneur

About Charlie Shrem

[Wikidata] American entrepreneur... | [Wikipedia] Charles Shrem IV is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. In 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting b

Quotes by Charlie Shrem

A lot of people say that I took the first shot for Bitcoin. The first person to walk through the door always…

Bitcoin

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My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their…

Brain

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A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.

Bitcoin

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I'm investing. I'm taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin is my baby; it's my whole world and my whole life. It's what I was put on this earth to do.

Baby

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In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off…

Communication

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I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.

Bank

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Before I went to prison, there were not really many blockchain products. It was only bitcoin.

Bitcoin

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My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.

Everyone

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I spend thousands of dollars on lawyers every day just to make sure that I'm not gonna go to jail.

Day

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Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.

Come

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The hardest obstacles for Bitcoin companies are banking and regulation.

Bitcoin

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