Bitcoin, every mention
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every year 2018 anyone Chris Dixon 169Michael Copeland 72Balaji Srinivasan 70Adam Ludwin 54Brian Armstrong 49Ali Yahya 47Dan Boneh 43Linda Xie 42Sonal Chokshi 41Olaf Carlson-Wee 39
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bitcoin comes up
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 2:26 Brian Armstrong So, you know, you know, in 2010, um, I was home for Christmas visiting my parents, and I happened to read the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper for Bitcoin, and I think I just saw it on Hacker News one day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Chris Dixon So I think there's a deep reason why, you know, the homebrew computer club, like all of these kind of great things in the history of technology did start in garages and, you know, clubs and, you know, the, the Bitcoin meetups you went to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:15 Chris Dixon So then, so you started the company, you know, I think, you know, we invested when, in, uh, in, uh, in kind of one of the, I don't know if it wasn't really the first kind of, uh, I don't know, you know, upswing of Bitcoin, but it was one… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:02 Brian Armstrong Yeah, so I remember for a long time, you know, when Coinbase started, and for a long time after that, it was Bitcoin only, right? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:51 Chris Dixon And so, you know, just think, you know, Bitcoin, of course, has hashcash built in. 3 times in the scene
Crypto, the Future of Trust
- ▶ 14:56 Ali Yahya Almost exactly 10 years ago, the Bitcoin white paper was published. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Ali Yahya Its provocative insight came from the thought that there's no reason why the Bitcoin database needs to be restricted to just money, and there's no reason why updates to that database need to be just payments.
- ▶ 20:16 Ali Yahya 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…
- ▶ 24:57 Ali Yahya You can use the technology to track how much Bitcoin everybody owns, but you can just as well use it to track who owns all of the adorable cats that happen to be playing starring roles in Pokemon-like online games.
Beyond Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 1:05 Linda Xie So when I came across Bitcoin, I was really compelled by this idea of censorship resistant,
- ▶ 3:16 Linda Xie Bitcoin actually wasn't the first case of digital money.
- ▶ 4:21 Linda Xie But there was a really key breakthrough when Bitcoin came along. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:30 Linda Xie I also want to note that the incentives actually work so well that Bitcoin has become very profitable. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:44 Linda Xie So as I talked about, ah, Bitcoin accesses incentive mechanism for the Bitcoin blockchain to work. 2 times in the scene
Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- ▶ 0:32 Katie Haun And the reason it's so ironic is that 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. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:59 Katie Haun But the one thing that we can all agree on is that anonymizing technologies, things like Tor, the onion router, or pseudonymous technologies, things like Bitcoin, we're making it really hard for the government to find out who is running…
- ▶ 5:54 Katie Haun French Maid was selling DPR information into the government's investigation for hundreds of thousands of dollars of Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:19 Katie Haun The essence of the tip was Nob's moving around a lot of Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Katie Haun In fact, even special counsel Robert Mueller traced Bitcoin payments to Russian GRU operatives in the election interference case.
- ▶ 19:57 Katie Haun 30% of Bitcoin transaction value was associated with dark net markets like Alphabay or Silk Road, but by 2018, that number is down to less than one percent. 2 times in the scene
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 12:46 Benedict Evans 20 years ago, the idea that anybody would buy fashion online was about as insane as the idea that Bitcoin would replace fiat currency.
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 0:18 Rodrigo Pacheco You were talking about Venezuela as a good example of the usability of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, but, ah, Nicolas Maduro, ah, cracked down on the Bitcoin exchanges and at the same time create the Petro.
- ▶ 3:00 Rodrigo Pacheco Uh, Katie, uh, Paul was talking about, uh, if there is no consensus in terms of the value, for example, of block, of, uh, Bitcoin, tomorrow everybody wake up and say, I don't care about Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Paul Krugman I was trying to, the data aren't so great, but it looks like there's something like five hundred million to a billion dollars worth of transactions, ah, a day in Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:12 Katie Haun Satoshi's white paper was in 2008, but if you think about when people started really hearing more and more about Bitcoin, it was substantially later, and even those of us who were in the government or some more mainstream institutions, you… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:54 Katie Haun But I, I, I do think that right now, another move we're seeing is Bitcoin relies on proof of work for mining.
- ▶ 12:55 Rodrigo Pacheco So how is the, the Bitcoin or the cryptocurrency technology is going to work for them?
- ▶ 15:10 Katie Haun One out of three millennials would rather own Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies than stocks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:29 unnamed speaker And that, that is a question that is making Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Katie Haun Bitcoin is already too expensive, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 unnamed speaker That Bitcoin is sort of like a poor form of payment because of the fact that it's pseudo anonymous. 4 times in the scene
A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- ▶ 0:27 Paul Krugman They think that the, both the algorithms underlying cryptocurrency and the system that the founder of crypto, of Bitcoin, whoever he was, created are extremely ingenious.
- ▶ 6:31 Paul Krugman Things about, well, let's, let's just talk about Bitcoin as it is, and then we can ask the question, can, can the problems be resolved? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:22 Paul Krugman This technology, it's more, it's a social technology rather than a, than a, you know, a mathematical technology, but let's throw away the social technology of repeated games and reputation and try and build a system that is going to…
- ▶ 14:32 Paul Krugman Bitcoin, something like that, might offer a way around that, maybe being used a little bit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Paul Krugman Uh, and if Bitcoin became really a, uh, serious, well, ok, it, uh, you'd be amazed at how quickly, uh, whatever freedom you think you're getting via the blockchain would disappear. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:51 Paul Krugman the best argument I could possibly be persuaded, uh, for on, on the question of Bitcoin 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:37 Paul Krugman What is, what is the thing that you can definitely do that you know that five years from now, 10 years from now, you can do with a, with a Bitcoin? 6 times in the scene
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 0:47 Catherine (Katie) Haun And it's ironic because in 2012, that was the first time I had ever heard of the word Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27 Catherine (Katie) Haun And certainly when I was at the Justice Department, this is what I heard about Bitcoin in 2012 and 2013. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 Catherine (Katie) Haun And what I learned from prosecuting, I did some of the, I put some of the earliest Bitcoin criminals in jail, as a matter of fact. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 Catherine (Katie) Haun Being built around being able to trace cryptocurrency, not only Bitcoin, but countless others.
- ▶ 16:42 Catherine (Katie) Haun She started paying them in Bitcoin.
- ▶ 20:17 Catherine (Katie) Haun 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, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 Catherine (Katie) Haun For cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, as a store of value. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Catherine (Katie) Haun The technology underlying Bitcoin came along. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Catherine (Katie) Haun Bitcoin code is run on computers all over the world, but it's not done for free. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 Catherine (Katie) Haun In the case of Bitcoin, the blockchain, it was Bitcoin, the currency, and there you get crypto networks.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
- ▶ 2:12 Ali Yahya Um, 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…
- ▶ 4:46 Devon Zuegel Uh, what are some things that Ethereum or Bitcoin got right early on or things that maybe resulted in consequences that the designers didn't notice at first?
- ▶ 8:25 Ali Yahya And then the development of Ethereum is kind of like a, it's another city that's being established that's, uh, inspired by the first city that was Bitcoin.
- ▶ 12:12 unnamed speaker Maybe competing with Ethereum, and I think a great analogy there is that we make, we can think of them as, you know, it's a different city trying to have its own kind of structure and governance, but ultimately, you know, you can say we're…
- ▶ 29:56 unnamed speaker Ethereum as an evolution of Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 Ali Yahya But in the case of Bitcoin, or at least the later, the later form of Bitcoin, the current Bitcoin, the shared meme seems to be fixed supply, store of value, digital gold.
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 1:16 Chris Dixon You know, the prices of Bitcoin and, and just so like as a, you know, store value and a new kind of alternative financials. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:21 Chris Dixon I think what's very interesting now is we're in a, we're in a, you know, we're 10 years into cryptocurrency in the sense of Bitcoin was in, you know, the paper first came out in 2008, but really the design space really dramatically…
- ▶ 15:16 Chris Dixon I think the, one of the most interesting ones is sort of the quote business model of let's say Ethereum or Bitcoin.
- ▶ 24:37 Chris Dixon So if you build, you know, if you look at, there's two ways to look at Bitcoin mining, and you'll see some articles that criticize it for taking too much electricity and everything else, and that, that some of those critiques are valid.
- ▶ 40:53 Chris Dixon Because just in a normal open market, the reason that the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum, et cetera go up and down is that they just change with supply and demand.
- ▶ 42:14 Ali Yahya 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.
An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- ▶ 2:39 Elizabeth Stark Uh, so with Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency movement, a lot of this resulted, again, from the eighties, interestingly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 Elizabeth Stark 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, uh, nobody cared about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 Elizabeth Stark Um, there's a 14 year old, um, in the Bitcoin world.
- ▶ 22:26 Elizabeth Stark Back when there was Bitcoin winter and the price was like, 200 dollars, things were very different than now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Elizabeth Stark Um, you know, it's like, oh, like Bitcoin is up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:42 Elizabeth Stark Um, so it does have a different trust model than Bitcoin, but what these technologies can do is enable, um, for example, if you want to invest a thousand dollars in real estate now, you just can't really do that.
- ▶ 37:28 unnamed speaker Satoshi owns a major chunk of the Bitcoin equity. 3 times in the scene
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
- ▶ 19:32 Tina Bhatnagar Coinbase and Bitcoin or the blockchain like interchangeably in conversations.
An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
- ▶ 0:27 Linda Xie So I wanted to start off on a personal note about the events that led to my interest in Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 Linda Xie So Bitcoin really wasn't the first digital money out there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 Linda Xie There was a key breakthrough in digital money when Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin in 2009. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:22 Linda Xie Bitcoin was really just the beginning. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:40 Linda Xie And so you can take this Filecoin and exchange it for US dollar, Bitcoin, or Ether, or some more liquid coin if you don't want to hold on to Filecoin.
- ▶ 18:03 Linda Xie And so Litecoin is just a fork of Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 44:33 Terry Angelos If you try to buy Bitcoin today, that is seen as buying cash, because it's totally fungible.