“If you ask them—the Israeli right wing—“Which do you choose,” they’d say democracy. But in practice they’re choosing the status quo, and the status quo is not static. It’s moving towards, increasingly, a one-state reality where Palestinians cannot vote.”
“We flew over to this conference in Amsterdam in 2014, and we were early enough to crypto that we could walk up to booths manned by the founders of Coinbase, Blockchain, Xapo, and Ripple.”
“We see Blockchain as a way to bring financial opportunity,” Mr. Heyn says to The Politic. “It’s a great way to include small private companies, he continues.”
“There is no uniform ‘blockchain law’ or an overarching set of regulations applicable to blockchain technology right now.”
“To me, the spirit or ethos out of which Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Blockchain grew relates to the financial crisis and mistrust of central banks and large financial institutions.”
“To me, the idea of blockchain is to share alike in the benefits of a more efficient and cost-effective operation. That includes the middlemen.”
“I think what I like most about this system is the speed with which its growing; in other words, how quickly the main actors in Mexico are turning to blockchain.”
“The reference points are revolutionary technologies, whether that’s the internet, mobile, or any of these things that fundamentally represented a new and better way of doing things.”
