Journeys

“I loved crypto. I loved the libertarian ideas. At that time, everyone was talking about freedom, about privacy, about the necessity of changing finance, about giving back financial freedom to people. I really believed in that and I still believe in such ideas.”

“If you’d asked people in the late 1800’s what they wanted, they’d have wanted a faster horse and buggy. They didn’t know they wanted a car.”

“In the future, I think people will use money without even knowing what the underlying technology is. Whether it’s the Bitcoin network, Lightning, Liquid, Litecoin or anything else. In the end, that’s going to be abstracted away from the user. All they care about is sending value.”

“Ultimately, the future is not something to be predicted at all. It’s something to be achieved.”

“The Treasury can just snap their fingers and print money. Bitcoin doesn’t work that way. Here’s this alternative financial system that I’ve never really thought about before. All of a sudden I was like, huh, there’s something here.”

“Obvious ideas are obvious after the fact.”

“I started to see that it was the blockchain community who would be happy to have me. My expertise was appreciated instead of being looked down upon.”

“There’s a lot of tuning we can do to make this thing faster. Right now, we’ve slowed it down to a mere 10,000 TPS but that’s so far beyond what people are using, it’s not urgent."

“And at that moment, I was like, okay. Something has to be done about this. This is just bullshit. I’m not standing for this. We have to have our own currency.”

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