25 Quotes by Balaji Srinivasan

Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.

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

Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.

I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.