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Masad: Single anonymous individuals creating trillion-dollar projects will become common
“It's a big market right now, but it was created by a single person, and we don't know who they are, and I think that's going to be a common occurrence in the future.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Xie: Bitcoin is very easy to trace via counterparty metadata
“And so Bitcoin is very easy to trace and a lot of people give information away about other people. So even if you're being really smart and someone transacts with you, they give away, away information about you.”
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 …”
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.”