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Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.


Adelise M. Cullens

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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 People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in mu...
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 A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
MADELEINE M. KUNIN The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble in...
M. SCOTT PECK Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.
HASAN M. ELAHI