ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
The number of industries, communities, habits, traditions, and even interpersonal interactions that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize is massive. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without people starting to start thinking it’ll do the same tomorrow, so that’s why these bubbles form. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
If you see a market that has slow and steady growth long enough, you’ll start to front-run it, and that slow and steady growth will start turning into steeper growth, and that will accelerate the process. Erik Voorhees Read Quote
