“When I was a designer, my art was my livelihood, and I needed to know that I would be paid on time; implementing Smart Contracts is really exciting because you don’t have to worry about that anymore.”
“If you give legal value to information that is registered immutably on the blockchain, then you don’t need to pay $50 thousand every year just to have another company reconciling numbers.”
“We can do something similar with genomic data, and we can create a way to disseminate that data to scientists who need it for research while also allowing people to receive compensation for their data through blockchains.”
‘“You’re already getting paid as much as ‘Joe.’ You get that’s wrong, right?’ I mean yes, but I have the experience and the background to do what you need to do. And nobody else does, that’s just reality.”
“We need to think about how this technology can be beneficial, not only to people at the top of the pyramid, but also to people across the pyramid, and especially to those at the bottom of the pyramid.”
“The matter of fact is that everyone wants to claim the glory of being the first integrator of a new technology, but nobody wants to be the failure of the investment in unknown technology.”
“I hope they succeed, because if they do, the technology has a lot of potential to help many of those who haven’t benefited as much from the last couple of decades of technological growth.”
“We needed to transcend just a focus on individual morality and self-reliance and come to a more communal understanding of what kind of community we wanted to be, what kind of country we wanted to be, and what that required.”
