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Liu: The crypto industry is meritocratic and supportive of women
“I think one of the misconceptions there have been a couple of articles recently is that somehow it's an unfriendly place for women. That's never been my personal experience. In fact, I've always felt that it's been one of the most fun, meritocratic fast moving…”
Liu: Frame crypto as consumer empowerment, not censorship resistance
“I think generally it's true that, you know, you can motivate a small, very passionate minority by, you know, being anti something. But if we take those same principles and reframe it as instead of being censorship resistance, but rather, you know, empowering c…”
Liu: Quasi-religious devotion was necessary to keep crypto alive
“There are a number of, I mean, it's almost religious how people kind of feel about their particular protocol or their sort of, or their project which in a way has been necessary in order to breathe life into the space and to keep it going from in 2008 until wh…”
Liu: Ethereum Foundation employs 5 to 10 people despite $70B market cap
“Ethereum, for example, has, depending on the day, you know, above a 50, 60, seventy million seventy billion market cap, right? So if you think about the corollary of a similarly sized company here, here in the Bay Area, Uber might be an apt analogy. Uber has t…”
Liu: Binance became the top crypto exchange in under one year
“Binance is, you know, arguably, you know, largest, largest exchange in the world right now. And they launched their own token, pay all of their people in BNB and maybe some other cryptocurrencies. It's unclear where their headquarters are. It's unclear where t…”
Liu: US crypto disputes end in court, not with death
“Given, you know, personally, given the choice, I still think that the U S is a relatively good place to be doing business and be in crypto because in the U S you know, if you disagree, you can go to court in other jurisdictions. If you disagree, you go to jail…”
Liu: Speculation was the first use case for cryptocurrency
“Speculation is really the first use case of cryptocurrency.”
Liu: Consumer platforms will integrate crypto into loyalty programs within a year
“And so I think over the next year, we're going to see a number of those things to be proven out. And what we've already at least heard is that what was, I think Starbucks talked about maybe integrating blockchain to the loyalty program. Rakuten, which is, you …”