Balaji Srinivasan


Marchés

Balaji Blasts Memecoins, Calling Them 'Zero-Sum Lottery’ as TRUMP Token Sends Market In Frenzy

The former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said in a thread on X that memecoins aren’t wealth creation.

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Finance

Institutional Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $11.5M, Aims to Facilitate Tokenization Boom

Utila's self-custodial wallet offers a simplified user interface, fast onboarding process and recently added enhanced tokenization capabilities to better serve token issuers, co-founder and CEO Bentzi Rabi said in an interview.

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Consensus Magazine

Balaji Put His Money Where His Mouth Was

Srinivasan bet $1 million the U.S. dollar would collapse (and lost), and evangelized his ideas about startup societies, making him one of CoinDesk's Most Influential in 2023.

Balaji Srinivasan (Portrait by Mason Webb)

Finance

Balaji Closes Bitcoin Bet With $1.5M in Donations, Including $500K for Bitcoin Core Development

Amid the initial bank failures in the U.S., the tech entrepreneur in mid-March had bet $1 million that bitcoin would hit $1 million within 90 days.

Balaji Srinivasan (onscreen) speaking at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Balaji Srinivasan Says $1M Bitcoin Bet Is Closed Out 'by Mutual Agreement'

Entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan said in a tweet that the "million dollar bet is now closed out by mutual agreement," and Srinivasan "made $1M+ in provable on-chain donations." Arca Chief Investment Officer Jeff Dorman shares his reaction as bitcoin jumps above $28,500 on Tuesday.

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Balaji Srinivasan: $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Take Longer Than 90 Days

Entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan explained the rationale for his bet that bitcoin (BTC) could reach $1 million in price by June 17 during an interview at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2023 conference. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest on Balaji's controversial $1 million bitcoin prediction.

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Founder of The Network State on Managing Digital Financial Risk

Founder of the Network State, Balaji Srinivasan discusses at Consensus 2023 the methods people are using to diversify their financial assets in the digital space.

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Marchés

Balaji Srinivasan Explains $1M Bitcoin Bet Rationale, Says Could Take Longer Than 90 Days

The entrepreneur pointed to the government printing money as the reason for his bullish call.

Balaji Srinivasan speaking at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Reclaims $30K: What's Next?

Truflation founder Stefan Rust joins "All About Bitcoin" to discuss bitcoin's price movement around the $30,000 level and his BTC outlook amid systemic inflation. Plus, reaction to Balaji Srinivasan's bet that bitcoin will reach $1 million.

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Peter McCormack: Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong

Podcaster Peter McCormack is out with a new opinion piece in CoinDesk's Consensus Magazine, discussing the seeming return of bitcoin's inflation hedge thesis and what it takes to get people into bitcoin. McCormack also weighs in on Balaji Srinivasan's bet that bitcoin will reach $1 million, writing in part, "my concern, like many bitcoiners is that we’re still not ready for a world where Balaji’s prediction is proven correct, and if he is right, we have much bigger problems to worry about."

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