Brock Pierce Quotes

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

As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0.

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.

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

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.

Countless banks around the world are already testing distributed ledger systems in proof-of-concept trials.

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

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

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.

Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

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.

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.

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.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

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.

Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced applications to be built on top.

I think fiat currencies will become digital.

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