Quotes from Brock Pierce

AngelList Syndicates are perfectly aligned with Bitcoin's ideology. They democratize the system so everyone has access to high value dealflow; it's the power of the people.

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.

We're here to take our skills - our superpowers - and figure out how to help Puerto Rico, the Earth and the people.

I built a supply chain of 400,000 people in China to play games professionally to mine digital currency.

What happened at Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. This is a plague that continues to play like a bad broken record. As long as this continues to happen, how are we ever going to instill confidence in this industry? How are we better than the old financial system?

From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We've had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.

I believe everyone is capable of just about anything if you commit yourself to it.

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

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

A unicorn is a community that's positively impacted the lives of a billion people.

It is possible that Bitcoin will fork at some point. The question is whether or not it'll be a contentious fork. This process is a good thing in the long term, though potentially disruptive in the short term.

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

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.

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.

I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.

The bitcoin/blockchain protocol has never been compromised. Businesses building applications on top of it run the risk of making mistakes.

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

Puerto Ricans are so well educated, they're so capable, they're so competent, but due to a lack of opportunity, when you graduate from college, you leave. Puerto Rico's number one export is human beings; Puerto Ricans!

The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a way that it's done with the right intention.

If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn't play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that's more fun.

The earliest adopters at scale of crypto were gamers.

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.

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

The real problem with Puerto Rico is that it keeps losing its best and brightest. It keeps losing its leaders and its future leaders due to a lack of opportunity.