blockchain

“The future of blockchain is big. The future of Bitcoin is difficult, but I would separate it. So I think blockchain is really a game changer, and Bitcoin just a small part of the whole blockchain development.”

“So I'm hugely bullish on Bitcoin. I think, though, in the short term, there will be ups and downs and, you know, maybe a few more scandals. Long term, though, I think the blockchain or, you know, this ledger, public ledger technology will be fundamentally disr…”

“I would say that if you see our portfolio we are investors in blockchain and block stream which are kind of like blockchain related businesses.”

“Yes. I really like smart contracts. I think those based on the blockchain, or using the blockchain, I think that. That's really promising.”

“All of these things, Bitcoin, the blockchain, there are going to be new technologies applied to venture capital just the way file sharing was applied to the music industry, or Uber was applied to the taxi industry. I think venture capital is going to be change…”

“We're not, Going global, we're bringing people to the United States in order to train them in specific industries such as blockchain and virtual reality is where our focuses have been.”

“And to me, they're completely integrated. Everyone's, they're very integrated and they're very similar. It's one can't exist without the other because the Bitcoin system is the incentivized system to help the ledger stay opera in operation because the ledger i…”

“I actually think regulation is good because it legitimizes it. Like, every time the US government makes a new rule about Bitcoin or the blockchain more people get interested in it rather than shy away from it because it feels like it's more and more endorsed b…”

“I'm one of the ones that think it might, and I think the way it disrupts our business is it allows folks to transact directly with the buyer of their product before they have said product. So, In a block in, in these ICOs that we're seeing now, you can put out…”

“A lot of people that say, I want a blockchain, the same people that a few years ago were saying, we want big data, which in a couple years were saying, like, oh, AI is very important to us. I think it's become a buzzword that almost means nothing. They mean so…”

“I feel like I'm seeing too many people spend too much time on it right now, and I kind of see it as more of a speculative investment for most people at this point, not a guaranteed way to plan your retirement.”

“If you think about all the technologies that are in development today, like AR, VR, genomics, and things like CRISPR, if you think about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, these technologies are also being developed on and approaching their iPhone moment, so to …”

“You could build a game like Fortnite in a centralized manner while having its cosmetic assets live on the blockchain.”

“If you're building something on the blockchain, is it as interesting if you just use the word database instead of ledger or blockchain? And if you do, then you don't need to be building on the blockchain.”

“Features can be copied, and that's the nature of most open source worlds, and really what that comes down to is you need to own the community, because in this Blockchain world. Anyone can try to fork away from you.”

“The customer of a blockchain is, is not retail. The customer of a blockchain is developers.”

“You can pick a winner in a bad category, and you can still really not do well if you're entering in at a growth phase. I think we've picked some companies that have proven to be the category leader, but if it's in an area like InsureTech, or areas of PropTech,…”

“There are businesses that are guaranteed to be disrupted by blockchain that are old fashioned, old, you know, businesses that everyone hates because they're monopolists and you can disrupt them with blockchain technology. So I would be short those companies.”

“So, so to me, the point of a blockchain is to enable digital ownership.”

“So blockchains are to centralize services as open source software was to centralize operating systems, right? Like this is, that's what we're doing here. We're trying to open the services layer of the internet.”

“We have some traditional assets in a box. We tokenize that one for one, and the tokens actually get put on blockchains where they're tradable.”

“Finally, a use for the frickin blockchain that's standalone and independent of its kind of a trading asset.”

“Blockchain for agent payments. Blockchain is, is in the valley of disillusion right now. It's like, it's really in a bad spot.”