Ethereum

“I was an early investor in cryptocurrencies. So Bitcoin, Ethereum Zcash, a bunch of other ones you've heard of. I shouldn't say every major coin, but every major coin that I think has some technological innovation you know, I've probably got like something in …”

“There's this a protocol called liquidity protocol. It's a new protocol. They do zero percent interest loans on your ETH. So you can put up ETH, you take a zero percent loan.”

“I bought a little bit after the crowd sale, but it was like single digit dollars. It was very cheap.”

“So if you have, if you're into Ethereum and U S dollar pool, when Ethereum is going up, you're like losing some of it, right? Because you're giving it away. To kind of like receive basically dollars. And, you know, so if you want to hold a lot of Ethereum long…”

“Now I should say, I personally think consensus is kind of a shitty company. They hired like a thousand people. I don't think they had like the business fundamentals to support any of that. You know, so, so I don't think consensus itself is gonna be that succes…”

“Crypto probably, Bitcoin is probably, Bitcoin plus Ethereum has probably created more individual billionaires than any other project, right?”

“The auction closed, and I think it made 33,000 dollars. So I think it closed at 11.55 ETH which is about 30, 32, 33,000 dollars.”

“He was like really early at Ethereum. And he like, he was the first marketing guy at the Ethereum foundation when it was like whatever, you know, 60 cents or some shit like that.”

“I think that 90% of the rest of the stuff is a complete scam. I think NFTs are, for the most part, total bullshit. I think Web Three, for the most part, is total bullshit. And I think that the people who entered into that space oftentimes are horrible entrepre…”

“I think Solana is going to go up a lot. It's going to go up a lot more than Bitcoin. I think it's going to go up a lot more than Ethereum in this specific bull market. Cause it's a smaller market cap. There's a lot of energy and excitement around it and all th…”

“Instead, what I did is I bought a little bit of Solana at 48 dollars. It started to go up a little bit more. And usually when that happens, people are like, oh, cool. I was right. Instead, I doubled the bet at 55. Like the position is going in your favor. And …”

“Oh yeah. I mean, if even one of those, if just Ethereum had come out of it, I mean, smashing success. So if just Figma had come out of it, smashing success, right? So those are like the two power law winners of the thing.”

“So we created a grant called the milk money grant. And we're like, this is not enough to get rich, but it's a little bit of milk money, right? It's enough where you can justify spending like two or three months on a project. And it was one ETH, which at the ti…”

“The beautiful thing about Vitalik is that the guy is such an uber nerd that like, You can actually take them at face value, and it's so nice to have somebody you could take at face value, and other people might disagree. I don't care. I take them at face valu…”