Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

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• Balaji Srinivasan:

  There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

• Balaji Srinivasan:

  The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

• Balaji Srinivasan:

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

• Balaji Srinivasan:

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

• Balaji Srinivasan:

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

• Balaji Srinivasan:

  Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement aroun

• Balaji Srinivasan:

  Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever m

• Balaji Srinivasan:

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

• Balaji Srinivasan:

  We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.

• Balaji Srinivasan:

  I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on,