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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Bitcoin comes up on the a16z Podcast, My First Million, Capital Allocators, Top Founders, All-In
AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- ▶ 11:22 Jason Calacanis If they are saying, this thing is incredibly dangerous, and they continue to update it and release it, they're saying, if something goes wrong in your enterprise, in your life, if it does a major hack, if somehow it figures out how to hack…
Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 2:54 Brian Armstrong Um, even when Bitcoin prices are down, stablecoin payments just keep growing.
- ▶ 18:37 Brian Armstrong Well, we actually shared in our recent earnings deck, um, which are, you know, those are the only numbers I'm probably allowed to talk about, but, um, you know, actually, 88% of our revenue is from non-Bitcoin trading at this point. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Brian Armstrong It's kind of what happened to me with Bitcoin in 2010 or 2011. 2 times in the scene
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 12:48 Cliff Weitzman So if you think, for example, about the logic behind the value of Bitcoin, right? 2 times in the scene
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 15:08 Max Levchin Uh, when, so I, I read the original Bitcoin paper and thought, wow, that's a really clever way of solving the business in general problem. 2 times in the scene
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:08:37 Jerry Murdock I mean, IBM CEO came out and said, Bitcoin's 4 times in the scene
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 8:09 Grant LaFontaine And he, the guy goes, I'll sell it to you for a Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:13 John Coogan For a while, Bitcoin was or had characterized as an end of the world hedge, a form of money for when the nation state collapsed, and people made a lot of money on that bet, but a trader wasn't driven by the fear that 2 times in the scene
Jack Dorsey's Buzz: Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
- ▶ 22:03 Greg Isenberg Um, by the way, I saw, uh, one of the, one of the pieces of feedback is nobody is mentioning that, uh, Buzz has a back door for Bitcoin native payments. 4 times in the scene
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 21:45 Shane Parrish Whether it's crypto ETFs, active strategies, or Bitcoin mining ETF exposure,
Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:37 unnamed speaker It, it, it does get weird and like there will be odd things and, but I mean, we've seen, we've seen, you know, uh, cybersecurity incidents all over the place from big companies getting hacked data leaks to, uh, the crypto locker schemes…
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 18:41 Harry Stebbings When your cab driver in London starts talking about the price of Bitcoin, you know it's time to sell.
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 0:33 Nikhil Kamath Everything from Bitcoins, blockchain, Solana, Ethereum.
- ▶ 37:03 Brian Armstrong And I would say, by the way, Bitcoin is like a digital version of gold. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Nikhil Kamath What was Bitcoin? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Nikhil Kamath I remember a time when people made a business out of just mining Bitcoins. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:12 Brian Armstrong So I think when they were creating proof of stake, they said, okay, proof of work, um, the Bitcoin system, it's, it's very robust.
- ▶ 57:59 Nikhil Kamath Say Bitcoin has become a store of value. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:26 Nikhil Kamath A hundred Bitcoin, whatever number of Bitcoin wallet when it was at about a 110, 115,000, which is not a long time ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:40 Brian Armstrong Well, I don't think Bitcoin was ever against law enforcement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:58 Brian Armstrong We work with BlackRock as well to power their Bitcoin ETFs and different things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:28 unnamed speaker Unlike that, BTC is, like, one unique asset 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:37 Brian Armstrong You know, and dollar cost average, own the index fund, diversify the portfolio, have some, you know, have some in Bitcoin, some in everything, all the different pieces, so. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12:09 unnamed speaker So I'm not necessarily talking about Bitcoin.
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 10:44 Jason Calacanis NVIDIA did not predict that this Bitcoin project would take over and that this would be the best way to do those computations, nor did they anticipate, I think, you know, that AI would take off, but because it was the best solution, the…
Everything in Capital Markets is Downstream of Algorithms · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:03:35 Jeremy Giffon How many people, you know, who like bought Bitcoin and, and, and did really well or bought, they bought a Tesla and then they bought the Tesla stock or they bought an Apple computer
- ▶ 1:14:49 Jeremy Giffon For the people who are really good to dress up those ideas in a way that makes them feel differentiated and smart enough to what is actually sort of just long Elon or long Bitcoin.
The Two Harvard Dropouts Who raised $800M to take on NVIDIA · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 9:55 Rob Wachen I mean, Bitcoin miners run at under a quarter of the voltage of GPUs.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Paul Erlang Right now it's mostly on-chain assets, meaning like on-chain native assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, attention-based assets, et cetera.
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:28:13 Jason Calacanis Or does it come from people selling their Bitcoin and moving it over to something more exciting?
Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:49 Molly O'Shea I don't have a throne for you or a big marble Bitcoin, but I do want to talk about some of those product releases.
- ▶ 16:30 Brian Armstrong The wealthiest people in Argentina, they can, they can get a brokerage account open in, you know, in the U S somehow and hold real estate or these inflation, Bitcoin, these were inflation resistant assets.
He shut down his last startup and gave the money back—then hit $1M ARR in 6 months. | George, Fou... · PMF Show
- ▶ 45:36 Pablo Srugo You remember like the first person who told you about Bitcoin?
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:09 Ryan Petersen Um, I was, well, actually Bitcoin, early Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:51 Nima Ghamsari Um, there's like, the most money people had were these magic cards that were all over the office, and we were early mining Bitcoin, and so, yeah, it was a different culture, and I had to adapt to it, which I really enjoyed, actually.
What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- ▶ 25:54 Amjad Masad It predicted Bitcoin.
- ▶ 39:28 Amjad Masad Um, AI, sort of like Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:44 unnamed speaker So you might need to use, you might, you might need to transfer like tens of thousands of Bitcoin low fees.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 15:51 Shane Parrish Whether it's crypto ETFs, active strategies, or Bitcoin mining ETF exposure,
He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 42:21 Pablo Srugo You remember like the first person who told you about Bitcoin, the first person who told you about Uber, you want to be that person because being first is cool.
She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 30:17 Jackie Reses He had a vision for Bitcoin trading that he wanted to see executed, and in the way that he and a team started 4 times in the scene
Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 21:09 Kristian Marquez Um, you know, Bitcoin starts to gain everybody's attention, let's just oversimplify and say around 20 10, how did it get your attention? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Rick Marini You might just say, I want to buy 10,000 dollars of Bitcoin and forget about it and let it go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:24 Rick Marini Of course, there are scammers out there that will scam someone into sending them Bitcoin or, you know, because people, you know, fall for something, which is unfortunate and sad.
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 23:33 Shane Parrish Whether it's crypto ETFs, active strategies, or Bitcoin mining ETF exposure,
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:16 unnamed speaker The Bitcoin price has been a little bit flat recently.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:27 John Coogan The creators and the maintainers of that protocol and crypto would be different because the Bitcoin protocol had the value capture component like baked into it. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:22 unnamed speaker You know, do you put one percent of your assets in Bitcoin?
Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 32:36 Paul Tudor Jones If I think about big shots, just Bitcoin, 2020, a knockout. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:11 Paul Tudor Jones At that point in time, it was Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:39 Paul Tudor Jones I'm not gonna be thinking about the 87 crash or, or Bitcoin.
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 14:32 Shane Parrish Whether it's crypto ETFs, active strategies, or Bitcoin mining ETF exposure,
Mastering Growth Equity with Melanie Nabar of Volition Capital | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 31:31 Melanie Nabar I wish I could go back and, and think of the first time somebody told me about, you know, Bitcoin, for example. 3 times in the scene
180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 51:53 Pablo Srugo You remember like the first person who told you about Bitcoin?
The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 10:40 Leif Abraham If you sell Bitcoin, you can buy a T-bill with it, you know, the second after and consolidate the performance reporting where you have one chart, that's why all the asset classes, which actually quite hard.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 15:49 Shane Parrish Whether it's crypto ETFs, active strategies, or Bitcoin mining ETF exposure,
Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good
- ▶ 1:04 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) I mean, like from 2013, right, people think that Bitcoin is only used by drug lords, uh, or for illicit activities.
- ▶ 10:05 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) What makes Bitcoin unique is that we don't know, we, well, the founder's no longer participating. 5 times in the scene
How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire
- ▶ 0:53 Jeremy Allaire And I had been really excited about, uh, what was happening with technologies like Bitcoin,
- ▶ 2:21 Elad Gil So for example, Bitcoin, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:16 Elad Gil So if I look at a lot of the blockchains that, um, people have found exciting over the last few years, um, obviously there's Bitcoin, which, you know, was almost purposefully designed in a certain way to make it a little bit less adaptable…
- ▶ 34:54 Jeremy Allaire Um, and, uh, and, and so the same guys that are, you know, trading derivatives over here on, on, you know, oil or Bitcoin over here,
- ▶ 35:32 Jeremy Allaire Again, a little conversation we were having before we recorded, like, you know, proof of work, obviously, um, it was itself an innovation, and sort of, um, essentially, like, the exhaust of the proof of work of Bitcoin is, is just, like,… 6 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 53:10 Balaji Srinivasan And, um, Zotel is a Zcash powered mobile wallet, um, that is basically fully encrypted Bitcoin. 14 times in the scene
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 2:27 Owen Jennings Um, and I think that's flowed through Twitter, Square, Cash App, Bitcoin, etc.
- ▶ 20:33 Owen Jennings Your cash app should look really different from mine, and the reason why, it's like, okay, well, I get my paycheck in the cash app, and I'm super into Bitcoin.
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:57 John Coogan So, Google researchers have warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets with fewer resources than previously thought, adding urgency to the debate over how… 5 times in the scene
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
- ▶ 19:17 Sean McAvoy And that's kind of like irks Texas, like somewhat in terms of like, hmm, these crypto guys are double dipping, you know, they're mining, uh, Bitcoin, but are also playing in the, in the energy market because they have all these batteries…
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 1:29:58 Marc Andreessen Right, and so maybe it's like Bitcoin, and Minecraft, and WhatsApp, and Instagram, and, and then I start running out of examples.
They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means
- ▶ 13:47 Jason Calacanis Educates a bit on how we got to a world in which Bitcoin investors might be a hundred X or 50 X and
- ▶ 38:17 Michael Selig I'll tell you when I was in private practice and folks started entering into Bitcoin swaps and crypto swaps, characterizing that as a type of a derivative relative to cattle and wheat and other commodities really was a whole lot of legal…
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 1:30:42 Shane Parrish How do you think about something like Bitcoin? 7 times in the scene
Ray Dalio: "AI Is Eating Everything - and It Might Eat Itself"
- ▶ 20:37 David Sacks Why hasn't Bitcoin performed in the same way? 6 times in the scene
Navigating the Shift to AI SEO with John Hargrave of Media Shower | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 20:33 Kristian Marquez I mean, I'm sure Bitcoin is in, in most people's parlance, but the universe is much, much broader than that today.
- ▶ 23:29 Kristian Marquez Uh, but it's, but it doesn't by any means seem ubiquitous, nor do we necessarily find that they will make everything but, say, Bitcoin or Ethereum available. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:03 John Hargrave I, uh, learned about Bitcoin back in 2013. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:53 John Hargrave And to be clear, this isn't Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 40:18 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, but it repeated itself with Bitcoin in 2012. 6 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 2:19 Brian Armstrong So Bitcoin is decentralized. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:01 Brian Armstrong And within a year or two of that, I had, I read the Bitcoin white paper. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Brian Armstrong We built this little Android app for Bitcoin, a Bitcoin wallet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 David Senra Like, Fred identified that you guys were losing money on every single Bitcoin transaction. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:42 Brian Armstrong So, okay, this is another interesting story where we, okay, believe it or not, the first version of the Coinbase app, actually, you couldn't buy or sell Bitcoin. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 Brian Armstrong I mean, that, that's what I got excited about when I first read the Bitcoin white paper was like, this could be a new kind of financial system for the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:13 Brian Armstrong He had written his, he wrote his thesis in college on Bitcoin, and then he did this kind of like, walkabout sort of
- ▶ 1:02:15 David Senra So I was reading a ton of the, um, Bitcoin subreddit back then. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:00 Brian Armstrong Recognized early what was happening with the invention of Bitcoin, but I didn't, I didn't invent Bitcoin myself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:47 Brian Armstrong I started to feel a little bit about epigenetic reprogramming like I did about Bitcoin when I first read about the Bitcoin white paper.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:14 Jerry Murdock Like, I'm not that big a Bitcoin fan.
Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
- ▶ 18:26 John Collison Beginning with the invention of modern cryptocurrency with the Bitcoin white paper of 2008, it has taken
Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- ▶ 9:14 John Collison In 25, the price of Bitcoin dropped precipitously and is now 50% down from October, but stablecoin payments volume doubled to around 400,000,000,060 percent of which is estimated to represent B to B payments. 2 times in the scene
How Eugene Johnson, CEO of Revi is Disrupting Retail Transactions with AI and Customer Data
- ▶ 8:19 Eugene Johnson So my average Bitcoin price was like 200 dollars a coin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:14 Kristian Marquez Um, well, so it's interesting the parallels to, to Bitcoin.
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 3:14 Sagar Enjeti So you'll see that in 2011 that Jeffrey Epstein is contacting Jason about Bitcoin. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:44 Sagar Enjeti Well, what I was trying to point out was Jeffrey Epstein's knowledge or interest of Bitcoin in 2011, and that links to a broader
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 58:48 Shane Parrish Sort of like a Bitcoin or you don't invest in the exchanges like Coinbase or something?
He exited for $100M+. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:21 Dileep Thazhmon Now Bitcoin is crazy. 2 times in the scene
The 12 Investing Rules Billionaires Never Discuss Publicly
- ▶ 0:32 Codie Sanchez I don't try to speculate on Bitcoin, and I do not need the hottest stock tip from your actually broke nephew who is day trading on Robinhood.
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