Brad Garlinghouse Quotes

I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.

Before I went to prison, there were not really many blockchain products. It was only bitcoin.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

Distributed ledger technology is fashionable. In fact, if you could wear it, you'd put Ralph Lauren out of business, at least in my case.

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 been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.

Blockchain technologies will change transactions in a broad way.

There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.

At GDAX, we want to see new protocols and their tokens flourish.

With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

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

Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

It's clear to me now that Ethereum is the new currency of the Internet. It's way ahead of where Paypal was in its day, and it's much more exciting to its customers than Paypal ever was.

Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.

Blockchain's a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.

The blockchain is a distributed network that solves all the problems that we have of finance, but more broadly, it's like a philosophy. It's a way of life.

Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency.

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.

Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.

I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.

What's happening in crypto - and certainly what's happening at Ripple - we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.

Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.