https://minutesof.com/on/crypto/ Everyone on the record about crypto: 15 verbatim quotes from 3 people, April 2021 to February 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:54 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/a1532266-e131-4ce8-830e-6e888bc021a0/ https://minutesof.com/q/a1532266-e131-4ce8-830e-6e888bc021a0/ “In an age of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, a default to paper delivery should be a relic, not a standard.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements crypto https://minutesof.com/q/c1e9458d-6410-48d7-b958-2b6054401a04/ https://minutesof.com/q/c1e9458d-6410-48d7-b958-2b6054401a04/ “To deliver on President Trump’s goal to ensure that the United States is the crypto capital of the world, we are embracing innovation to bring more products onshore, creating clear rules of the road for capital raising with crypto assets,” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements crypto https://minutesof.com/q/803966fe-41dd-4bd0-b690-1b8da3d43d6c/ https://minutesof.com/q/803966fe-41dd-4bd0-b690-1b8da3d43d6c/ “And by the way, that's how every bond is priced. And that's by the way, how all the initial coin offerings work in the crypto world. It's just what you would do.” — Bill Gurley, Brew Markets Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:28:10 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/e23cca16-1b7e-4bb5-920a-7621c1ca100b/ https://minutesof.com/q/e23cca16-1b7e-4bb5-920a-7621c1ca100b/ “And now if you have a wallet of any kind and I have a wallet of any kind, I can send you, you know, 25,000 US dollars in two seconds, and it'll cost me 2¢ to send it to” — Bill Gurley, Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:34:22 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/668a2038-5c1d-4b7e-a5d7-9c23c207d56f/ https://minutesof.com/q/668a2038-5c1d-4b7e-a5d7-9c23c207d56f/ “Here, whether it's $10 or or a million bucks, you know, you put it in stable coin with Coinbase and you start earning 4% daily.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:56:17 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/2a330d71-7d66-4678-b197-11584fdbeddf/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a330d71-7d66-4678-b197-11584fdbeddf/ “we're like Bitcoin at two. And I'm like, god, so Bitcoin represents two out of 500 of the net worth of the world or 400, whatever. It moves a little bit. Could it be four?” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/21ece15c-63ae-4065-8f85-9b0a20a6a8dd/ https://minutesof.com/q/21ece15c-63ae-4065-8f85-9b0a20a6a8dd/ “And that's why someone said to me the other day, if Solana eats ETH, then all of these tokens are worth far less than we imagined because there's just a race to the bottom.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/d5d7c03b-37ba-443e-be68-a0d5d23d3570/ https://minutesof.com/q/d5d7c03b-37ba-443e-be68-a0d5d23d3570/ “Yes. But I think there's an equally interesting counterpoint to that, that Solana might be cheaper than Ethereum, but then the son of Solana might make Solana equally uninteresting.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/8ba60c78-d89e-41fc-8e92-a0a9704fa5fb/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ba60c78-d89e-41fc-8e92-a0a9704fa5fb/ “And everything from my history of studying finance and economics would say that if you declared you'd never rake the system governance token, simply the right to kind of control a group or community would be worth a fraction, a small fraction of what an economic token would be.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/9cea8102-8fdb-4ec2-afb0-1ff3e06aaaac/ https://minutesof.com/q/9cea8102-8fdb-4ec2-afb0-1ff3e06aaaac/ “It's interesting to me. I've been spending a lot of time trying to go deeper on crypto, and I think there's a fascinating question about whether or not a token will have value if it doesn't have the ability to eventually rake a system that it's involved in. And one of the great examples out there is the Uniswap DAO” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/de31649a-67d7-4397-a2f4-9c8a48648cec/ https://minutesof.com/q/de31649a-67d7-4397-a2f4-9c8a48648cec/ “And so if you build the right incentive structure around your tokenization, that could be a massive advantage to an on ramp, especially if you're able to get your currency to appreciate over time.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/979f3803-4c5b-4227-af40-53d57a53a667/ https://minutesof.com/q/979f3803-4c5b-4227-af40-53d57a53a667/ “There's a ton of people that are thinking about tokenization and how that intersects with a marketplace company or a UGC company and a game company.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 07 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/9526d122-7505-4f88-9f8d-3bab7392ac7b/ https://minutesof.com/q/9526d122-7505-4f88-9f8d-3bab7392ac7b/ “We are in chain analysis, which you referenced. And I'm swayed by the Ethereum crowd. The parties that are involved there seem to be way more pragmatic.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Tech Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:40:05 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/02fb07a8-fe9f-491e-ab59-ee626a059b90/ https://minutesof.com/q/02fb07a8-fe9f-491e-ab59-ee626a059b90/ “I was swayed by the arguments of the Ethereum crowd. And so if our and and and I've taken I've taken a personal position, not something at benchmark.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Tech Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:40:05 +0000 crypto https://minutesof.com/q/bd09892a-7692-4a7d-84e7-a90962f4ed17/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd09892a-7692-4a7d-84e7-a90962f4ed17/ “So we're looking at a deal with, Andreessen, because I thought Balaji was one of the smartest people in the space. The company was called twenty one dot co.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Sat, 17 Apr 2021 02:12:13 +0000 crypto