Naval Ravikant

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do…

— Naval Ravikant

A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world…

— Naval Ravikant

If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation…

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I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

— Naval Ravikant

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

— Naval Ravikant

On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That's an insane flood.

— Naval Ravikant

Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

— Naval Ravikant

At the end of the day, what makes Silicon Valley work is technology and the outcome of making money. Those two things…

— Naval Ravikant

It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

— Naval Ravikant

Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash,…

— Naval Ravikant

The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It…

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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to…

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If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.

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While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin…

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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of…

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Rules that may be easy for Wall Street are a death sentence for startups. They are easy to break accidentally and the…

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For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting…

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We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our…

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Unlike a normal venture fund, we never stop raising capital. We can always absorb new capital on the platform and into the…

— Naval Ravikant

Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and…

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We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be…

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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business…

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With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

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I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web…

— Naval Ravikant

Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

— Naval Ravikant