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Adam Draper: Blockchain technology cannot exist without Bitcoin's incentive structure
“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…”
Adam Draper: US government regulation actually drives crypto adoption by legitimizing it
“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…”
Boost VC Focuses Its Accelerator Investment Program on Blockchain and VR
“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.”
Adam Draper pitched 3,000 investors to close 35 LPs for $6.6M fund
“I so it took me 12 months to raise my money. So, so from when I opened to raise money to close, it was like no, no, Back in 2013 to november 2220 14, and I closed 6.6 million bucks. I had to, I reached out to probably 3000 investors. I ended up meeting with ab…”
Draper: Bitcoin cuts cross-border transfer costs by two-thirds
“Border to border transfer of money. It can be a third the cost and one fifth the time of sending money today with this new technology, which is really, really exciting.”
Draper: Around 200,000 miners power the Bitcoin transactional network
“There's something like 200,000 people who are hooked up to this network who are powering this huge transactional thing.”
Adam Draper: Boost VC portfolio company Joystream merges BitTorrent with Bitcoin
“We have one company in this tribe that's called joy stream run by a solo founder who is trying to merge two technologies that have never been merged before, which is the peer to peer technology of BitTorrent with the peer to peer technology of Bitcoin. So basi…”
Boost VC Has Invested in Approximately 120 Companies Across Six Cohorts
“Since then at boost VC, we've been, we've run Six tribes. We call them tribes. They're three month programs where we provide housing, office space, and we invest in companies, and we've invested in about a 120 companies.”
Boost VC invests $10k-$25k across 50 startups per year
“It's an accelerator program. So we do two, two tribes a year, two sessions a year that are three months, they're three months long where we provide housing office space and we invest in the companies and we invest between 10 and 25,000 dollars. To 25 companies…”