Patrick M. Byrne quote: "People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008."

How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
PATRICK M. BYRNE

On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. a...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
PATRICK M. BYRNE

You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of hu...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
PATRICK M. BYRNE

For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlemen...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much cent...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no central...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There&#...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the bloc...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like s...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of m...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think bloc...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in ...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
PATRICK M. BYRNE

Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, wh...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. I...
PATRICK M. BYRNE

We alleged that the Rocker Defendants paid for and edited false and libelous reports from Gradient, ...
PATRICK BYRNE

Candidly, that's why it's a market that hasn't seen a lot of firms coming here.
PATRICK BYRNE

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an...
PATRICK M. S. BLACKETT

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
ROBERT BYRNE

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?
DAVID BYRNE

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identi...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me,...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in tha...
GABRIEL BYRNE

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to fi...
GABRIEL BYRNE

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I ...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
GABRIEL BYRNE

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely d...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen...
GABRIEL BYRNE

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter&#...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Corporations are the new dictators.
GABRIEL BYRNE

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or ge...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
GABRIEL BYRNE

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too...
GABRIEL BYRNE

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I&...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from ...
GABRIEL BYRNE

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second ...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressi...
GABRIEL BYRNE

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit...
DAVID BYRNE

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really...
DAVID BYRNE

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
ROBERT BYRNE

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Br...
DAVID BYRNE

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being ...
RHONDA BYRNE

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and stil...
DAVID BYRNE

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It...
DAVID BYRNE

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his lif...
ROBERT BYRNE

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
ROBERT BYRNE

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
ROBERT BYRNE

Respect is love in plain clothes.
FRANKIE BYRNE

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
ROBERT BYRNE

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
DAVID BYRNE

Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or...
ROBERT BYRNE

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Confidence is always overconfidence.
ROBERT BYRNE

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
DAVID BYRNE

There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.
KEVIN BYRNE

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
ROBERT BYRNE

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
ROBERT BYRNE

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
ROBERT BYRNE

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to ...
DAVID BYRNE

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a l...
DAVID BYRNE

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
DAVID BYRNE

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushe...
DAVID BYRNE

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don'...
DAVID BYRNE

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
JANE BYRNE

I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionate...
DAVID BYRNE

I welcome the liberation of music from the prison of melody, rigid structure, and harmony. Why not? ...
DAVID BYRNE

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came f...
ROSE BYRNE

We had similar situations with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears and they responded quickly with o...
BILL BYRNE

If you look at what we've got represented now on both the men's and women's side, we have some of th...
BILL BYRNE

Coach Blair's team showed marked improvement last year and judging by the way his team is practicing...
BILL BYRNE

The priorities are keeping people out of dangerous situations and being able to help others who may ...
BILL BYRNE

We have spent last couple of days reviewing many options about playing this football game. Our first...
BILL BYRNE

We wanted to do what we could to help. We'll treat your athletes just like they were our own.
BILL BYRNE

This is a program that can be successful in absolutely everything that we do. There are two flagship...
BILL BYRNE

My goal is to make Texas A&M a destination. Billy is the perfect fit here. He's from Texas, his fami...
BILL BYRNE

[Texas A&M was the highest-profile program that fell short in both football (887) and men's basketba...
BILL BYRNE

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
DAVID BYRNE

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.
JANE BYRNE

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you...
DAVID BYRNE

I don't like begging money from producers.
DAVID BYRNE

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
DAVID BYRNE

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. m...
BRADLEY BYRNE

I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more att...
BRADLEY BYRNE

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bi...
DAVID BYRNE

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartment...
DAVID BYRNE

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of of...
DAVID BYRNE

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
ROBERT BYRNE

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating cer...
DAVID BYRNE

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, ...
DAVID BYRNE

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a...
ROSE BYRNE

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little c...
DAVID BYRNE

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, o...
DAVID BYRNE

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has e...
DAVID BYRNE

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it...
DAVID BYRNE

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is bad...
BRADLEY BYRNE

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
ROBERT BYRNE

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)
ROBERT BYRNE

Love will find a lay.
ROBERT BYRNE

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
ROBERT BYRNE

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
ROBERT BYRNE

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
ROBERT BYRNE

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
ROBERT BYRNE

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
ROBERT BYRNE

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new.
CHRIS BYRNE

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deepl...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situati...
DAVID BYRNE

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is...
DAVID BYRNE

When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to y...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
ROBERT BYRNE

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's...
ROSE BYRNE

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a...
GABRIEL BYRNE

We know very little about him and out of courtesy we have accepted his invitation to meet with us.
OLLIE BYRNE

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
ROBERT BYRNE

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
JOHN BYRNE

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
DAVID BYRNE

I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Sere...
GABRIEL BYRNE

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activit...
DAVID BYRNE

We'll have a great variety of items in the exhibit, including large coverlets, afghans, woven garmen...
JOAN BYRNE

This sends a very clear message that we are committed to being in Santa Rosa.
PAT BYRNE

Your thoughts become things!

RHONDA BYRNE

Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.
RHONDA BYRNE

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that trut...
RHONDA BYRNE

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of get...
DAVID BYRNE

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
DAVID BYRNE

The low-end guys work in packs. Some are unqualified and unscrupulous.
ALEC BYRNE

In the old days, paparazzi would never be seen. The first time the target would know he was shot [ph...
ALEC BYRNE

It's definitely a way to reclaim some market share, but how do you get a kid to want it? Kids are mo...
CHRIS BYRNE

He's made some huge lifestyle changes. I think that difficult period allowed him to figure out what ...
MICHELLE BYRNE

If possible (surgery) should be within the golden hour, ... But you can still produce good results w...
PETER BYRNE

Would I have been better off as a teacher in Ireland or Spain? It's a very difficult question to ans...
GABRIEL BYRNE

The consumers' trust has been eroded and the EU must restore public confidence in its food science a...
DAVID BYRNE

There may be some amendments here or there, but as long as the proposal that has been announced rema...
DAVID BYRNE

This is a major breakthrough that will provide consumers with much needed protection and rights,
DAVID BYRNE

Consumers now clearly want copper-fastened guarantees that these controls are being implemented,
DAVID BYRNE

Parents are looking for options that allow kids to incorporate physical activity into their play -- ...
CHRIS BYRNE

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distan...
JANE BYRNE

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
DAVID BYRNE

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
DAVID BYRNE

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public plac...
GABRIEL BYRNE

Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she...
TOM BYRNE

Things come and go, but the Ant Farm is very much like Barbie or G.I. Joe or Hot Wheels that have ma...
CHRIS BYRNE

KB hasn't articulated a strategy about what they're doing yet, but need to stock a lot of the hot to...
CHRIS BYRNE

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. A...
GABRIEL BYRNE

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It...
DAVID BYRNE

Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography
ROBERT BYRNE

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
ROBERT BYRNE

Stop crime at its source! Support Planned Parenthood.
ROBERT BYRNE

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on
ROBERT BYRNE

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o...
ROBERT BYRNE

Prejudices save time.
ROBERT BYRNE

Properties that are undervalued get pushed up to value or above because there will be more than one ...
ROBERT BYRNE

On one level, the Hollywood-like romance is tongue-in-cheek. But on the other level, it means seriou...
CHRIS BYRNE

I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It's about his policy....
DAVID BYRNE

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisf...
DAVID BYRNE

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public ...
DAVID BYRNE

I expect that we will achieve consensus on Monday,
DAVID BYRNE

very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.
DAVID BYRNE

[It's] a model that the nurse-midwife provides total care to her patient and yet has backup in an em...
JOHN BYRNE

No one likes it when I go away, and generally we have all gone together, but now that the children h...
JOHN BYRNE

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk oper...
JOHN BYRNE

[John Byrne, IM's CEO, stated,] Most corporate actions software contains only very limited tax funct...
JOHN BYRNE

People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.

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People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.

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