Gavin Andresen Quotes

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.

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

Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.

If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity and the exchange of value, that's where blockchain technology can be put to good use.

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.

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.

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.

t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.

For the foreseeable future, I'm all about building blockchain-based decentralized services.

What proplets do is they look to the blockchain to see who owns them; they are kind of like SIM cards today - they know where they are at.

Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.

If you're someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years.

With NXT there are always going to be a few people who are still developing because that's what NXT is, but that's really exciting because you get to see them thrown into the deep end.

You look at Bitcoin, and it is an entirely new currency, completely decentralized, anonymous; transactions occur incredibly fast for free, all designed by the free market.

The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.

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

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

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

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

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

If you look at the trends, China very well could be the driver of the adoption of block chain consumer services.