Brock Pierce

“I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn't tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.”

“Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.”

“I played 'Mortal Kombat' competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.”

“I've been very blessed in my life.”

“I only help the superheroes, I don't help the villains.”

“Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.”

“Has the Internet changed our lives? Have mobile phones changed our lives? The blockchain is something that is that transformative.”

“When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.”

“A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.”

“My name is Brock and it also means 'broke.' I'm going for broke - I intend to give everything away of everything I have over time.”

“A billionaire is someone who can positively impact a billion lives.”

“I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.”

“I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.”

“When the Internet first launched, you had all these newspapers saying that the Internet was only used by bad people, to do bad things and what was the point of it. But the Internet changed everything, just like Bitcoin will.”

“Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip - blockchain and crypto is the fourth.”

“Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.”

“We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.”

“The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.”

“No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.”

“Being able to borrow against one's crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market.”