Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.
I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.
With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.
We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.
We've weathered a few storms before, like when social networking was considered a fad. I think that we have a track record of being on to something big.
I've been a huge fan of Mike Judge for a long time.
I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends.
The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
