25 Quotes by Balaji Srinivasan

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

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

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

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

It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

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

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

Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.