Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital, evaluates how US regulatory bodies have approached cryptocurrency markets.
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Garg: Crypto dApps and computation will not create most long-term value
“Even though most of the dollars today, I think, are going towards those last two buckets of distributed computation and distributed applications, I don't think that's actually where most of the really new value will get created in the long term.”
Opinion
Garg: The real threat to crypto is authoritarian adoption, not bans
“The real risk, in my opinion, therefore, is not that the government bans this stuff. I think the real risk, actually, is that nefarious governments fully, fully embrace it.”
Insight
Garg: Fully decentralized teams cannot effectively scale complex tech projects
“Yeah, I generally think decentralized teams won't work. I think in the very, very early days of any platform, they can work, and it's because there is not that much competition, and a lot of what you need to build out is infrastructure, and you have a small nu…”
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Garg: Crypto companies will eventually recentralize in Silicon Valley
“So what I would expect will happen is actually, over time, crypto companies will actually recentralize in large part to Silicon Valley.”
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Garg: Mid-tier venture firms face severe disruption from on-chain capital competition
“The people I think should be worried are if you're like VC firm, 15 through 1000, right? Like I think you get disrupted because capital, as it becomes a commodity, if you're a venture firm, 25 and you're like not breaking the top decile in terms of returns, An…”
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Garg: Bitcoin could become a central bank reserve larger than the yuan
“Could Bitcoin actually be a Reserve currency that central banks are purchasing that could be bigger than the yuan or the euro in central banks. I don't think that's crazy, actually.”