“comma develops open source ADAS software. You can call it self-driving software, but currently what we ship is something where the user is supposed to pay attention all the time.” “We want the software to

***”We’re entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we’re discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at least for the first five, six years, there was so little capital

“Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wants to come onto Bitcoin and send one UTXO from

“Bitcoin is being embraced by the U.S. and the U.S. financial system and it is it being embraced by Iran and the Iranian regime at the exact same time and both of them know that

“Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the solar flux from the

“If you think of River or Gemini or Coinbase or whatever, think of all of those as silos and how people custody Bitcoin. If some sort of compromise were to come into the Bitcoin ecosystem

“The whole point of libertarianism is that we should recognise that we don’t know how to plan the world. We don’t know what the solution is going to be. You can’t have a central planner

“I think there will come a point where you get excessive, you swing too far on the individual side of the spectrum, and then it becomes advantageous to group together again, and you become more

“We are trying to make it possible for people to use computers as simple of a statement as this: use computers, without intermediaries and custodians. The more they do, the more the lines will diverge.

“When it comes to building in the approach, you have to be taking the approach as utilising the fundamental principles that we see in Bitcoin itself. So having a standard rule set that you apply

“If people are not ready for Bitcoin, just go use USDT as long as you can before dollar hyperinflation. It’s like Noah’s Ark: it’s going to rain, we build the ark. We don’t have to

“That’s the main reason I like doing this Bitcoin stuff so much, because it’s connected to the real world. It’s proof of work. Like, I can’t sit on my computer and come up with a

“It’s a dangerous business to help people out of slavery. But so what? We have to do this. This is a moral obligation, an ethical obligation, as a technical possibility, and a lot of fun.<br

“PearDrive is like, how could you make stuff seamless across devices and how can you leverage that device that has a lot of storage to get the most out of the device that has a

“Of course, central banking, fiat money is bad, but nevertheless, maybe AI and robotics and this productivity is going to be really beneficial to the global economy, not just the U.S. economy.
We’re going

“Bitcoin needs to be exciting because it provides a utility that no other technology provides. The value transfer technology needs to be embedded in every application in the world. Period. That’s super exciting.”
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“My problem with the core side has been what we talked about with the people that are technical and don’t have the empathy or understand what it was like before you were [technical]. The core

I sit down with Ben Kaufman to catch up and take stock of where Bitcoin actually is right now. We dig into the four-year cycle, whether it still matters, and what ETFs, politics, and financialization