Bitcoin
part of Bitcoin And Cryptocurrencies
8 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 1, 2017 by Juan Benet · said 78 times in 20 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Juan Benet (22), Dalton Caldwell (14), Kor Adana (6), Andy Bromberg (5), Tikhon Bernstam (3), Linda Xie (3), João Batalha (3), Tom Sparks (2)
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 20 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
- Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 40 mentions in 7 episodes 6 per episode
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
- The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
- There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator
- Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Bitcoin, oldest first
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Benet: Bitcoin and Ethereum enable cheap financial instruments, not consumer utilities
“What Bitcoin and Ethereum did was allow you to create Any kind of, you know, financial instrument extremely cheaply and with, you know, almost free verification of correct proceeding of this financial instrument, which is not normally a consumer need.”
Jul 1, 2017 positive
Oct 11, 2017 bullish
Kor Adana in 2017: Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are the future
“Personally, I think blockchain is unbelievably exciting, and I think it's the future. So I am all for people investing in cryptocurrencies, investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and it is a volatile market right now, and you have ICOs coming out every day, and That …”
May 2, 2018 negative
Jul 27, 2018 bullish
Gil: A subset of current crypto projects will become massive like Amazon
“And then in parallel, I think there's things that exist today that are sort of the Amazons of crypto that are gonna be massive in their own right and already exists. You know, maybe it's Bitcoin, maybe it's Ethereum, maybe it's a privacy token like Monero, Zca…”
Jan 19, 2022
Caldwell: Brian Armstrong's original Coinbase YC pitch wasn't about buying Bitcoin
“Another thing I want to note is even Brian and his YC application Didn't really believe in his own idea because what he basically applied to YC with was the P to P transfer parts. It wasn't buying Bitcoin and holding it. It was the idea that he could build som…”
Jan 19, 2022 bullish
Seibel: Portable digital gold like Bitcoin is 10x better than physical gold
“I think the other fun insight here is that like portable online gold Is valuable. Like it is 10 X better than gold. And so as something you might want to have, if you think gold is something that you might want to own, and it seems like the market does like ow…”