Bitcoin
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210 statements across 62 episodes · 92 bullish · 43 bearish · 49 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Marc Andreessen · said 1,283 times in 120 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Chris Dixon (169), Michael Copeland (72), Balaji Srinivasan (70), Adam Ludwin (54), Brian Armstrong (49), Ali Yahya (47), Dan Boneh (43), Linda Xie (42)
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2026 24 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 43 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
- Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 58 mentions in 8 episodes 7 per episode
- Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- Regulating Crypto in the Name of National Competitiveness
- Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 18 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2021 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2020 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2019 825 mentions in 62 episodes 13 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
- a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
- a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
- 54 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 218 mentions in 15 episodes 15 per episode
- 3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
- A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- Beyond Cryptocurrencies
- Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 70 mentions in 4 episodes 18 per episode
Everything said about Bitcoin, oldest first
Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Andreessen: Global early-adopter tech market now starts at 50 million people
“A subtle but important thing that's happened in the last 20 years is the market of early adopters now is now very large. And so, and I just, like, look at it numerically, like, the number of total internet users in, like, 1999 was maybe fifty million people. A…”
Jul 28, 2017 bullish
Jul 28, 2017 positive
Jul 28, 2017 bullish
Blockchain is the first publicly available, append-only database
“The thing that we're excited about Bitcoin is, A, the, obviously, the currency, but what's more interesting is even the block applications of the blockchain, right? It's the first time when we have sort of an append-only database that's kind of you can put thi…”
Jul 28, 2017 neutral
Dec 9, 2017 positive
Rampell: Bitcoin transactions are fully traceable on-chain in perpetuity
“Whereas Bitcoin, you can actually track every subsequent transaction from a Bitcoin wallet and when Bitcoin is sent. And it's really remarkable because if I put ten million dollars over here in Bitcoin, I can see where all of those coins end up in perpetuity.”
Dec 9, 2017 positive
Dec 9, 2017
Dec 9, 2017 neutral
Dec 9, 2017 negative
Dec 9, 2017 neutral
Dec 9, 2017
Dec 9, 2017 negative
Dec 9, 2017 neutral
May 5, 2018 neutral
Chainalysis and Elliptic use machine learning experts to de-anonymize Bitcoin
“There's also services like Chainalysis and Elliptic, whose sole purpose is to de-anonymize networks like Bitcoin. So they have entire teams of machine learning experts to really try to trace some of these coins and what the identity is.”
May 5, 2018 neutral
May 5, 2018 neutral
Jul 15, 2018 bullish
Stark: VCs laughed at Lightning Labs before the 2017 crypto shift
“So recently I was quoted as saying we're back in a Bitcoin, not blockchain world because so back when I was fundraising for my company, Lightning Labs nobody cared about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. People would laugh us away. They wouldn't take meetings with u…”
Jul 15, 2018 positive
Jul 26, 2018 bullish
Yahya: Crypto networks with lower security than Bitcoin will emerge
“So certain blockchains, like say, like the Bitcoin meme is that Bitcoin is fully decentralized and is extremely secure, secure to the point at which it'll be resilient even against attacks by nation states like China. But there are applications out there that …”
Jul 26, 2018 bullish
Dixon: Crypto networks are fundamentally a new type of computer
“You know, being kind of, being technology focused, we kind of, we like to look at it or one way we like to look at it is as a, as you can think of a crypto network like Ethereum or Bitcoin or one of the many other new innovative, you know, networks out there a…”
Jul 26, 2018 positive
Ali Yahya: Bitcoin and Ethereum emerged from bottom-up community collaboration
“Ethereum Bitcoin to a considerable degree emerged out of communities working together as opposed to necessarily a top-down monolithic design that's imposed upon an organization or a group of people who are working together by a single person or a small group o…”
Jul 26, 2018 neutral
Ali Yahya: Bitcoin is organized around digital gold, Ethereum around technology
“But in the case of Bitcoin, or at least the later form of Bitcoin, the current Bitcoin, the shared meme seems to be fixed supply, store of value, digital gold. In the case of Ethereum, it's more of a meme around technology. Say we're building a technology, it'…”
Nov 2, 2018 bullish
Nov 2, 2018 positive
Haun: Darknet share of Bitcoin transactions dropped from 30% to 1%
“At its peak in 2012, 30% of bitcoin transaction volume, 30%, was associated with dark net markets. Marketplaces like Silk Road or Alpha Bay. And we typically, of course, associate dark net markets with criminal activity. But by 2018, that number is down to one…”
Nov 2, 2018
Nov 2, 2018 bullish
Haun: Bitso processed 16 million in US-Mexico Bitcoin payments last year
“In fact, the CEO of Bitso, the founder and CEO of Bitso here in Mexico, told me that last year, in Bitcoin payments alone, not all cryptocurrency, just Bitcoin, He processed sixteen million Bitcoin coming between the US and Mexico.”
Nov 2, 2018 positive
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 negative
Nov 2, 2018 neutral
Krugman: Best bull case for Bitcoin is acting like cash hoards
“The best argument I could possibly be persuaded for on, on the question of Bitcoin Is that Bitcoin will become like gold or high denomination notes. It'll be something that people hold in their stashes in, in in Buenos Aires, or actually high denomination euro…”
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Krugman: Significant probability Bitcoin's value eventually drops to zero
“Now, I'm not a hundred percent sure of that, but maybe, ah, ah, but I think that there's a certainly a, I would say a quite significant probability that the whole thing just drops to zero, ah, because I have not yet seen any reason why this has to be a valuabl…”
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 negative
Krugman: Crypto replaces institutional trust with digital gold-biting
“So, the interesting thing about all of this shift to cryptocurrency is it's saying, let's throw away This technology, it's more, it's a social technology rather than a, you know, a mathematical technology, but let's throw away the social technology of repeated…”
Nov 2, 2018 negative
Krugman: Bitcoin consumes real resources like computing power and electricity
“The striking thing about Bitcoin is that it sets up a system in which, ah, first of all, ah, the creation of this currency involves a lot of real resources. We're actually spending a lot of resources now computing power or electricity to generate this, much as…”
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Paul Krugman argues Bitcoin mining energy efficiency gains are self-defeating
“Bitcoin is what people are owning now in large value, and any gains in energy efficiency just gets swallowed up very quickly. You just push further into that margin, and it, ah, it, it's, ah, it's a self-defeating form of progress.”
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 positive
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2018 positive
Nov 2, 2018 neutral
Dec 15, 2018 neutral
DOJ tasked prosecutor Katie Haun with shutting down Bitcoin in 2012
“The first time I ever heard the word Bitcoin was back in 2012 when I was a federal prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. And I heard the word Bitcoin because I was asked to prepare an investigation and a case against it and to help shut it down.”
Dec 15, 2018
Dec 15, 2018
Dec 15, 2018 bullish
Katie Haun: Shutting down Bitcoin is like shutting down the internet
“This was one of the early misconceptions out there about cryptocurrency, that you could shut something down like Bitcoin. That would be like saying, let's go shut down cash or the internet. Not only not possible, but also not desirable.”
Dec 15, 2018
Dec 15, 2018
Dec 16, 2018 positive
Yahya: Proof of work aligns incentives among mutually distrustful network participants
“The insight is that you have to contribute something to the network in order to get to vote and to get paid. The result is an elegant incentive structure that encourages mutually distrustful participants to keep each other in check.”
Dec 16, 2018 positive
Yahya: DAI offers Bitcoin's advantages with price stability for hyperinflationary economies
“Now, the beauty of DAI as a cryptocurrency is that it has all of the advantages of Bitcoin, but it is also a price table, and it is because of that stability that it is a credible digital alternative to fiat in countries where hyperinflation is a problem or fo…”
Dec 16, 2018 positive
Dec 21, 2018 bullish
Armstrong: Bitcoin is a global value protocol as big as the internet
“The Internet was such a transformative thing in society. It's this global decentralized protocol for moving information around. But here was another protocol that was also global and decentralized, but it was for moving value around, or money. And I remember t…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Balaji: Apple's Bitcoin ban will drive users off iOS within three years
“Like, you know, locking down Bitcoin on the iOS platform is going to be, I think, seen in like three years as one of the more short-sighted things that, that could be done. Because it's going to be so, such a big deal. And so it's the kind of thing that could …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Regulatory barriers delay hard tech compared to consumer software
“There are applications in genomics and, you know, drones and Bitcoin and three printing and things like that that do run into regulatory challenges. And so you know, some of the reason that people see these things that are perceived as fluff that, that, you kn…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Dixon: Fixed asset supply does not guarantee perpetual price growth
“People say, because there's only so many of them, the price will always go up, but we have so many counters, like gold, for example, I don't think anyone thinks gold will always go up. There's plenty of examples of things with fixed quantities where the price …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Felten: Bitcoin will become too large for traditional regulators to disrupt
“I think a lot of people in the sort of old school finance, finance and financial regulation world just think this whole thing is a bubble and will go away if they ignore it. I don't think that's true, and I think that as they wake up, they may start looking at…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Felten: Bitcoin's 21 million supply cap is changeable by community consensus
“Right now the monetary policy is grow asymptotically to twenty-one million Bitcoins, but that could change by consensus of the community. That twenty-one million limit is not inherent mathematically. It's just a number that is hardwired into the currently used…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Felten: Bitcoin volatility will decrease as adoption and liquidity grow
“I think the exchange rate of Bitcoin will settle down if it grows. You get more liquidity in the market, and you get more sophisticated economic modeling of what the fair price is. And then I think the volatility goes down somewhat.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Green: Bitcoin core developers rejected early, inefficient versions of Zerocoin
“So we actually, when we initially came out with zero coin, it was not very efficient. We approached Bitcoin and said, Hey, this is great. You guys should adopt it. And they kind of looked at it as funny and they said, you know, this is not efficient.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Choksi: Users care about Bitcoin's interface and utility, not mechanics
“I'm not convinced that people actually need to really even know what Bitcoin is. I mean, for, at the end of the day, for an end user, you just care about the GUI and the interface to the information, and is it easy to use, and am I getting what I need out of i…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Casey: Bitcoin's primary use case is developing world remittances
“There's a sort of a consensus, really, that the biggest use case is, is sort of resolving the problems of the developing world, where there's a lot of You know, it's very expensive to move money, send remittances, and there's a lot of people who literally don'…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Vigna: Bitcoin diffuses centralized financial power across broader society
“What I think Bitcoin can do is take that power of the currency and diffuse it. A decentralized system where people really can be their own bank if you want to, or you can use a certain, you know, it takes that concentrated power and it diffuses it among the br…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Vigna outlines the five psychological stages of Bitcoin adoption
“The stages, it's, you know, it's dismissal, it's disdain. Your first one is disdain. Disdain, dismissal, curiosity. The fourth one is actually the key. The fourth one is the aha moment, the eureka moment, and we played around with, I wanted to call it the oh f…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Casey: Wall Street sits between dismissal and curiosity on Bitcoin
“Wall Street, of course, is a, you know, huge, amorphous mass of people but if you were to kind of collectivize the thinking, I think they're possibly on the border of, they're not at the oh fuck moment... Ultimately, I think that they're at, The third stage. I…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Casey: Framing Bitcoin as a 'trustless' system is a problematic mistake
“One of the reasons why I think they struggle with that is because they've come up with this meme that I think is actually problematic, and that is that there's no, we're a trustless activity. We don't need trust anymore. It's like, no, no, you absolutely do ne…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Casey: Bitcoin replaces central intermediaries with community blockchain consensus
“Bitcoin is a solution to that, because it outsources that role, that intermediation of trust, to the entire community. And it finds a, you know, a fascinating, unique instrument that, you know, that is the blockchain and the consensus process through which the…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Mountain View is poorly suited for heavily regulated frontier tech startups
“Like if you wanted to build a company that operates drones and trades in Bitcoin while doing that and maybe layer something, I don't know, stem cells into that mixer or something, it's very unlikely that you should create that company in Mountain View.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Popper: Storytelling ability drove Wences Casares' success and influence in Bitcoin
“Wences as an entrepreneur is fascinating because he is so good at telling stories, and I think that's a big part of the reason he has managed to influence Bitcoin the way that he has, and the way, and that he has managed to build the companies that he has, bec…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Popper: Argentina's High Tech Literacy Enabled Early Bitcoin Adoption
“I think that what Argentina has that a lot of other places don't have with dysfunctional economies is a very well-educated, literate tech-savvy population that, that knew how to embrace this technology and that had the skills to do that and a comfort with, The…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Popper: Improved infrastructure will allow Bitcoin to compete globally like in Argentina
“When you look at it, there are a lot of lessons to be drawn for how it might be used elsewhere once, once the technology, once the protocol, once the code, once the infrastructure is improved, it will be able to compete in other places in similar ways”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Popper: Major Bitcoin crises stemmed from uninsured centralized custodians
“Many of the crises that have hit Bitcoin Have been as a result of people trusting their bitcoins with some central institution that was essentially allowed to hold their money in the same way that a bank does, but without any insurance.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Popper: Bitcoin is not ready to serve as a mainstream currency
“It's pretty clear that at this point, Bitcoin is not ready for prime time in that way. There are sort of basic problems with the protocol, with the number of transactions that can go through the system, and significant improvements that need to be made before …”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Popper: Mainstream Bitcoin adoption will take 5 to 10 years
“And I think the people who are kind of really in the trenches working on this recognize that this sort of thing takes five, 10 years, and, you know, Wences often would say that to me when I was talking to him in the course of reporting on this book that, you k…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Popper: Argentina is not the future or model for broader Bitcoin adoption
“I wouldn't argue that Argentina is the future of Bitcoin, or Argentina is paving the way for Bitcoin, you know, broader adoption by ordinary people. I just think it's a great experiment to watch, because it's the place where people are trying that right now”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Popper: Argentina is the only country where ordinary citizens use Bitcoin commercially
“And in Argentina, as I mentioned, as you mentioned, is really the one place where I saw that happening, where I saw ordinary people who didn't have any political motivations, didn't really understand the technology using Bitcoin because it allowed them to do s…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Dixon: Bitcoin's greatest value is enabling new payment types
“I personally am much more excited about the latter kind for Bitcoin. In other words, I'm more excited about new ways that you can use Bitcoin and pay for things that you couldn't before. So for example, micro payments, machine to machine payments, versus save …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Hearn: Micro-tipping accelerates adoption by introducing users to spending Bitcoin
“Tipping has been really great for this as well, because, you know, people can receive a tip without even really expecting it, and then suddenly they feel like, hey, I've actually got some money, I could go down to a local cafe and buy myself a drink, and it's …”
Jan 2, 2019
Hearn: Satoshi set Bitcoin's 1MB limit when blocks were under 10KB
“He imposed a maximum one megabyte block size, and as there's one block every 10 minutes on average, that's, you know, you can calculate a maximum transaction rate from that. And at the time he put it in, we were around, you know, less than 10 kilobytes per blo…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Hearn: M-Pesa cannot support cross-border transactions, creating opportunity for Bitcoin
“The moment they want to trade across borders, systems like Impeza don't even work either. So there's a real niche, well, not even a niche, right? There's a real serious need for many people that Bitcoin can meet there.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Hearn: Reaching Bitcoin capacity limits will kick users out of the system
“At worst, things break quite badly, but even at best, even if things don't break, some users won't be able to use Bitcoin, right? They will be kicked out of the system, effectively. There won't be enough capacity to handle them.”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hearn: Western Bitcoin adoption suffers from poor messaging, not lack of utility
“If you're in the West and you have access to, you know, credit card payments and so on, it's not always clear why you would want to use Bitcoin, but that's not because there aren't good reasons, it's because we're not doing a good job of, like, telling people …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Armstrong: Every investor should own one Bitcoin to learn about cryptocurrency
“Should every investor own maybe one Bitcoin? Yes, I think they should. And the reason is not so much as an investment. It's to start learning about this technology Which will be a major influence on finance in the future.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Armstrong: Bitcoin's sidechain upgrade mechanism ensures long-term survival
“It's a very high-risk upgrade because a lot of those things haven't been tested at scale before, and so it's really awesome to see Bitcoin have a mechanism for upgrades essentially built into it, which gives me a lot more confidence that it'll survive the test…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Armstrong: Mainstream merchants like Starbucks will eventually accept Bitcoin
“Now, someday, if the world, if Bitcoin becomes more and more popular, like we all think it will then yes, even the Starbucks across the street will be accepting Bitcoin, because they still don't want to pay two percent, they'd rather pay a fraction of one perc…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Mims: Bank adoption signals Bitcoin has real commercial potential
“And I see a lot of early adopters especially among banks, and that, to me, is always a sign that this is going somewhere real, because they're not gonna spend all their money and analyst time on things that aren't gonna make them money,”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Armstrong: Bitcoin is the only way to build global, permissionless prediction markets
“Or if you want to build a global crowdfunding site, or a prediction market, or something like that, where people all over the world without having to register can, within a couple seconds, put money into this thing, or see it tip, It's like literally the only …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Bitcoin technology will be a big deal globally
“Digital assets can basically, Bitcoin is basically a platform to be able to exchange those in a trusted way online. And, you know, this is an extremely powerful idea. Like, this idea is very powerful. The technology is very powerful. And this will be a big dea…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Andreessen: Developing world financial inclusion will drive global Bitcoin adoption
“And so there's a very, very big opportunity to use these new technologies, and those include Bitcoin, and those include smartphones, to really up level the capabilities that people have in, in many countries. And I think that's a big part of how Bitcoin will p…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Back: Bitcoin hard forks require full ecosystem compromise to succeed
“Because of the nature of hard forks where everybody has to upgrade at once, it's essentially, you know, it's essential that all of the participants, including the users, the miners, the ecosystem players providing different kinds of services to users, that the…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Back proposes scaling Bitcoin block size limit to 8MB over four years
“So the proposal I made was to increase to two megabytes failure immediately, as soon as we can roll out change, which to be clear, any of them would take about six months to roll out. Increase to four megabytes after two years, and eight megabytes after four y…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Morkos: Bitcoin governance rejects top-down decision-making by industry bigwigs
“No, I don't think the point is to, you know, gather all the bigwigs in the room and make decisions. That's not how a system like Bitcoin works. I mean, everyone makes their own decision, and the idea is to have all the information come together so people can S…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Back: Massively scaling Bitcoin sacrifices decentralization, turning it into PayPal
“You can scale massively and lose the decentralization, and at that point, Bitcoin loses most of its distinguishing features, and you're left with a kind of PayPal situation With all the things people gripe about with PayPal.”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Mougayar: Active blockchain networks cannot be stopped
“No, it doesn't matter because the technology is already in the wild. It's already on wheels. It's flying. It's a nonstop kind of set of computers. Blockchains, once, once you turn them on and they are bona fide blockchains, it's, that's it. They cannot be stop…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Srinivasan: Bitcoin remittances will not beat legacy systems in their first decade
“Remittances are, to Bitcoin, what VoIP was to the internet. In the sense of, it'll work at some point in the first five years or 10 years of the thing, it's not high enough quality with the obvious alternative, namely VoIP versus landlines or remittances versu…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Ehrsam: Bitcoin's restrictive language prevented developer application building
“And when you ask that question, then you try to sort of do a root cause analysis of it where you ask, okay, well, why aren't there many, that many apps getting built? And I think the answer you arrive at is the scripting language in Bitcoin makes it really, re…”
Jan 2, 2019
Buterin: Adding full scripting early would have collapsed Bitcoin in 2010
“Way that the Bitcoin community would be able to kind of manage itself and all these different things that I can think Satoshi probably definitely would have had way too much on his plate if, you know, we're getting hacks and collapsing in 2010 because all at t…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Buterin: Building fair lotteries on Bitcoin requires O(N³) collateral versus O(N) on Ethereum
“Like, one of them was they published this at the Financial Cryptography, in the workshop, that they were trying to create a provably fair lottery on top of Bitcoin, and it turns out that if you have N players in the lottery, Then you basically have to have O o…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Buterin: Bitcoin's Protocol Lacks Native State Persistence Across Transactions
“But with Bitcoin itself, you can't do that because the protocol has a kind of inherent Statelessness to it. Like, you can't remember the notion of, well, this guy already withdrew 500 ETH six hours ago, and another 500 ETH two hours ago, so he can't withdraw a…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Dixon: Ethereum proved multiple scaled blockchain networks can coexist
“One, it showed that you could just simply have another Scaled network, right? I think a lot of people just assumed it was gonna be one network to rule them all, network effects, et cetera. So it showed just like an existence proof that you could do another net…”
Jan 2, 2019
Dixon: Protocol network tokens require a distinct valuation model from digital commodities
“My personal nomenclature, like I think of in the first bucket, the commodity bucket, there's Bitcoin, there's Monero, Zcash, maybe Dash. And then there's this other thing, which is kind of the networks, call them fat protocols, call them tokens. There's this w…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benet: Bitcoin mining energy consumption exceeded Slovenia's total power expenditure
“Yeah, last we calculated it was more power expenditure than all of Slovenia and so, I think it's much more now because of the recent spike, a lot of miners came in in the last couple of months, so it's a lot of power,”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benet: Silicon Valley dismissed Bitcoin by missing its core value of verifiability
“And so it's partly for that reason, I think, that Silicon Valley effectively dismissed a lot of the potential of Bitcoin. It just looks like such the wrong thing. If you could, you know, beat the throughput of Bitcoin with a SQLite database in your phone, why …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Tomaino: Decentralized stablecoins are essential missing middleware in crypto
“The volatility of Bitcoin and Ether are such that they're moving five or 10% in a given day, and no one that's actually using it as a medium of exchange for something or placing bets would actually want to use that, right? So a decentralized stablecoin, in my …”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Weisman: Crypto tech is unregulated, but financial applications face existing laws
“The underlying technology is not regulated, and it would be very difficult to regulate, but when you have applications of the technology, some of which we've heard about earlier today, when those applications cross into an area where there is an existing set o…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Yahya: Successful crypto networks emerge bottom-up from community collaboration
“They also tend to emerge in a bottom-up way. They're organized in a bottom-up way. And I think this is a trait that's common to a lot of the crypto networks that are most successful. I think Ethereum Bitcoin to a considerable degree emerged out of communities …”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Feb 26, 2019 bearish
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Walden: General base-layer protocols must ossify to foster developer trust
“The more general the service of a crypto network, the more it should be ossified. So again, coming back to this, IP is ossified, Bitcoin has ossified, maybe a general computation substrate is better ossified because it lends itself to the trust that the develo…”
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Mar 1, 2019
De la Garza: Leaked AWS credentials led to $500K in unauthorized mining
“There's one company that I heard of that checked their credentials for AWS into their GitHub repo on accident, mistake that people make. Within a couple of hours, they had run up about 500,000 dollars of AWS compute charges as people tried to mine Bitcoin.”
Apr 19, 2019 bullish
Yahya: Blockchains as general computers is a five-year-old paradigm
“Even if it's been 10 years since the publishing of the Bitcoin white paper, this is still very, very early days, because I think that it's only been recent, it's only recently that, that people have begun to conceive of blockchains as computers, as opposed to …”
Apr 19, 2019 negative
Apr 19, 2019 neutral
Fish: Bitcoin is a decentralized storage network for a single file
“You can think of a, you know, decentralized accounting system, Bitcoin being the first example of such as a example of a decentralized you know, storage network. It's just that the one file that the entire system has decentralized the storage of is the ledger …”
May 8, 2019 bullish
Carlson-Wee: Bitcoin enables internet digital scarcity and sovereign-free finance
“It means that for the first time you can have digital scarcity on the internet, And of course you could move to a global unified financial and monetary system that's outside the scope of any sort of sovereign state political control and is really opt in by all…”
May 8, 2019 negative
Dixon: Sub-second transaction finality is impossible in proof-of-work systems
“You just simply can't have, ah, like sub-second transaction finality in a proof of work system. Like, so Bitcoin, like you really need to wait, you know, each block is 10 minutes, and it has to do with the coordination among the network, and the network propag…”
Jun 24, 2019 positive
Aug 29, 2019 positive
Narula: Bitcoin has operated reliably for 10 years without protocol compromise
“So proof of work has been, though it consumes a lot of electricity, it requires a lot of electricity to run the specialized hardware, has been working pretty reliably for 10 years. It's very impressive, actually. A lot of people never thought that it would wor…”
Aug 29, 2019 positive
Narula: Bitcoin was the first intermediary-free digital payment system
“It took me a little while to realize this, but this was actually the first time that this had ever happened. This was the first time we could make online digital payments without a bank or another financial institution in the middle.”
Aug 29, 2019 neutral
Aug 29, 2019
Narula: Bitcoin solved Sybil attacks by tying identities to economic cost
“That was the insight behind Bitcoin. We were going to address the Sybil attack problem by making these identities actually cost something. So they weren't set ahead of time, but they were allocated according to how much people were willing to participate or pa…”
Aug 29, 2019
Aug 29, 2019
Wilcox: Satoshi Nakamoto failed to encrypt Bitcoin due to early ZK limits
“So when Satoshi Nakamoto was inventing Bitcoin, he tried to figure out how to add encryption into it, and he couldn't figure it out. It didn't fit, because back then, 10 whole years ago we didn't have good enough zero-knowledge proofs.”
Aug 29, 2019 negative
Dec 19, 2019 positive
Dixon: Cryptocurrency adoption is a second-order consequence of social media
“I think things like cryptocurrency, for example, in many ways, it's a consequence of social media. If 20 years ago, someone invented Bitcoin, you'd have like a couple New York Times articles quoting some Yale economists. This is stupid. It's over. Maybe it'd b…”
May 18, 2021 bullish
Boneh predicts Bitcoin and Ethereum data will survive until year 3000
“So I think that the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are going to be with humanity now forever, you know, in the year 3000, you know, the era of Futurama, we're still going to be looking at the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains. Maybe they won't be called that,…”
Nov 8, 2021 negative
Gluchowski: Hyper-Bitcoinization based solely on Bitcoin is utopian and impractical
“The idea of hyper Bitcoinization just based on Bitcoin is kind of utopia because of a lot of usability issues and a lot of issues with just general lack of functionality, which you need for a real financial system.”
Nov 16, 2022
Feb 28, 2024 bullish
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Feb 28, 2024 neutral
Feb 28, 2024 neutral
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Mar 5, 2024 neutral
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024 positive
Andreessen: Major open source and crypto projects were built remotely
“Open source most of the big open source projects got built with people working remote. And, you know, and almost like, you know, in our day, you know, it would have been over Usenet. And then more recently it's over, you know, various kinds of messaging system…”
Jul 23, 2024 bullish
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Feb 20, 2025 bullish
Dixon: Crypto is a new network architecture, not just meme coins
“Crypto is a new, this is what my book's about, is it's a new way to architect internet services, a new way to build networks that has a bunch of different properties, which I argue are beneficial for a bunch of reasons and can do a set of things you couldn't d…”
Feb 20, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025 bullish
Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin achieves universal global consensus across hostile political divides
“So essentially, the point is that Bitcoin is decentralized cryptographic truth. Like essentially the whole thing about Bitcoin that's so hard is how do you get global consensus on who owns what BTC? And we have something now where whether you're a Democrat or …”
Apr 7, 2026 bearish
Apr 7, 2026 bearish
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Aug 19, 2026
LaFontaine: Whatnot Acquired Its Domain for 0.5 Bitcoin
“Logan got ahold of the guy who had whatnot. And he, the guy goes, I'll sell it to you for a Bitcoin. So, I was an early Bitcoin investor, so I had Bitcoin. And Bitcoin back then was worth 10,000 dollars, so not like what it's worth now. And Logan haggled him d…”