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Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator Sep 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:46 Jesse Pollak And the big ones that people talk about and use and kind of are adopting their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:46 Amjad Masad I don't know what the market cap exactly, perhaps it's more than trillion dollars of Bitcoin, but like that's a single person.

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:05 Harj Taggar It was just, like, regular people who wanted a nice user interface to, like, buy and hold Bitcoin, and it was like...

How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 17, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:18 Jared Friedman So when Coinbase got started in 2012, the Bitcoin trading market was minuscule. 2 times in the scene

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 19, 2022 · 10 mentions

Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:20 Cory Doctorow That we, we are very soon to be in the market for graceful recovery, not for luxury bunkers where you can wet the bed and wait for, you know, better people than you to rebuild civilization so that you can emerge with your like AR-fifteen…

EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator Aug 7, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:25 Russ Roberts I got tired of talking about Bitcoin and monetary theory and what caused the financial crisis of 2008. 2 times in the scene

Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator Jul 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:40 Elad Gil You know, maybe it's Bitcoin, maybe it's Ethereum, maybe it's a privacy token like Monero, Zcash.

Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator Jul 6, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 João Batalha So, um, so I remember, for instance, presenting a few years back, presenting the Bitcoin paper to, to Louise and Mika, which don't have a CS background. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:49 Luís Batalha Um, uh, Lawrence Lessig commented on the Bitcoin paper. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:28 João Batalha But for instance, even like something like the Bitcoin paper where it is like, and I, I mean, I studied photography in college and even like, it took me a few reads through it to, to actually get it.

Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator May 2, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Craig Cannon Probably know or have a loose understanding of what blockchain, what Bitcoin, all of this stuff is, but just so we establish kind of a ground truth, uh, Linda, why don't we start with you? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:16 Linda Xie Um, Bitcoin itself 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:35 Avichal Garg I mean, you look at something like the, um, the, uh, BTC, the Bitcoin ETF, uh, uh, paperwork that went in and all these people filing for it.
  • ▶ 39:06 Linda Xie And so Bitcoin is, um, very easy to trace and a lot of people give information away about other people.

Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator Mar 9, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 42:37 Andy Bromberg Uh, the first thing I would say is some of the most success, one of the most successful angel investments in the past decade was investing in Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:22 Paul Buchheit So, crypto is another one of these things, like I gave Linux as an example, where the thing that brought me to Google was my enthusiasm for Linux, and I think if you were paying attention to what, like, nerdy 21 year olds were excited…

Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:19 Tom Sparks Um, you know, we saw a lot of early Bitcoin stuff go away because people were using like horribly insecure hosting stuff. 2 times in the scene

There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator Dec 6, 2017 · 1 mention

Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator Oct 20, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:31 Michelle Kuo Uh, the production of art, especially starting around the 19 fifties, sixties, seventies, um, and even more so now, of course, with, you know, God knows what, you know, an artist is using Bitcoin.
  • ▶ 41:03 Michelle Kuo Um, we actually published a piece about, um, Bitcoin and the blockchain.

Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2017 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 52:54 Kor Adana Uh, we talk about Bitcoin a lot on the show, so cryptocurrencies are part of one of the, the plot lines along with, um, the whole evil corp Philip Price storyline. 6 times in the scene

Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator Sep 21, 2017 · 1 mention

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:18 Tikhon Bernstam We're going to like, we're going to be really friendly to Bitcoin people. 3 times in the scene

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 9:10 Juan Benet Now, there's a whole second aspect to it, which is, you can look at a network like Bitcoin as a, as an, as an entity that managed to get 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:34 Juan Benet So you didn't have the same, the same fungibility that you, sorry, the same level of trustlessness that you have with something like Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:20 Juan Benet Just think about Bitcoin as a way to incentivize people to add a bunch of hardware to a network. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:55 Dalton Caldwell It was, it was kind of like when Bitcoin very first came out, it was sort of like a cool thing on Slashdot. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:26 Juan Benet I think there were a ton of people thinking very deeply about what Bitcoin was gonna do to the world, and a lot of people invested very heavily into Bitcoin, um, and creating Bitcoin companies. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:36 Juan Benet You get something like Bitcoin and Ethereum, um, which are arguably like... 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:58 Juan Benet So you saw this happen with Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:12 Juan Benet I just, I don't mean to imply Bitcoin or Ethereum is, like, Bell Labs.
  • ▶ 1:32:06 Dalton Caldwell I think the raw data for Bitcoin a few years ago wasn't pretty. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:39:30 Juan Benet But I think it's, it's going to come in kind of like a wrecking ball in that a ton of, a ton of, I know a lot of researchers that, um, in crypto and game theory and so on, that understood the crypto world and then either got a bunch of… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:10:27 Juan Benet So, a great example of this, I know of a lot of Bitcoin mines that have super cheap power.
  • ▶ 2:11:32 Juan Benet It's like the best interaction to, to the, to the future, I guess, than, than Bitcoin ever was or, or that kind of stuff.

Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:19 Drew Houston Online storage was kind of the startup cliche of its time, the way that Bitcoin or other things have been.
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