A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked. — Patrick M. Byrne Around Copy Share Image
The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street. — Patrick M. Byrne Bitcoin Copy Share Image
How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go? — Patrick M. Byrne Bitcoin Copy Share Image
t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain. — Patrick M. Byrne Anybody Copy Share Image
We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel… — Patrick M. Byrne Bitcoin Copy Share Image
There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too. — Patrick M. Byrne Bitcoin Copy Share Image
You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to… — Patrick M. Byrne Contracts Copy Share Image
I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've… — Patrick M. Byrne Caribbean Copy Share Image
This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in… — Patrick M. Byrne Currency Copy Share Image
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because… — Patrick M. Byrne Bitcoin Copy Share Image
For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore.… — Patrick M. Byrne Currency Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a… — Patrick M. Byrne Blockchain Copy Share Image
We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will… — Patrick M. Byrne Bank Copy Share Image
People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's… — Patrick M. Byrne Blockchain Copy Share Image
With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value… — Patrick M. Byrne Currency Copy Share Image
Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way… — Patrick M. Byrne Bad Copy Share Image
There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can… — Patrick M. Byrne Black swan Copy Share Image
If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's… — Patrick M. Byrne Digital Copy Share Image
There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We… — Patrick M. Byrne Money Copy Share Image
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most… — Patrick M. Byrne Consensus Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care… — Patrick M. Byrne Business Copy Share Image
I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We… — Patrick M. Byrne Blockchain Copy Share Image
On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement… — Patrick M. Byrne Currency Copy Share Image
We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke. — Patrick M. Byrne Existence Copy Share Image
I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic. — Patrick M. Byrne Agnostic Copy Share Image
Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt… — Patrick M. Byrne Disruption Copy Share Image
When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals… — Patrick M. Byrne Centralization Copy Share Image
Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in settlement risk tied up in… — Patrick M. Byrne Currency Copy Share Image
We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works… — Patrick M. Byrne Best Copy Share Image
