Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity. Jeremy Allaire More Quotes by Jeremy Allaire More Quotes From Jeremy Allaire With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how all forms of property are secured and exchanged, how voting and governance function, including spilling into the automation of commercial law, audit, and accounting. Jeremy Allaire automation accounting voting law We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely. Jeremy Allaire value money business time There's all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they're quite non-digital. The blockchain innovation really allows us to take everything where there's record keeping, everything where there's trust around record keeping, and it allows us to make that digital, immutable, permanent, and global. Jeremy Allaire go innovation trust identity The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money. Jeremy Allaire will free money way The big idea of, 'Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet' - that's on the horizon; that's how we built everything we do. Jeremy Allaire horizon digital internet i-can I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle. Jeremy Allaire circle doing internet world The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible. Jeremy Allaire help possible internet love We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value. Jeremy Allaire value think bitcoin payment I think there's a need for services that will make it easier for Chinese consumers to spend globally. The Bitcoin network could be an attractive solution. Jeremy Allaire solution need will think If you look at the trends, China very well could be the driver of the adoption of block chain consumer services. Jeremy Allaire look you china trends We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email. Jeremy Allaire value internet communication easy This is the thing that I think we're all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people. Jeremy Allaire think learning together people We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior. Jeremy Allaire being experience behavior people The emergence of open Internet protocols for value exchange, today led by the global adoption of Bitcoin's blockchain, paves the way for value to move as freely as information and data move on the Internet today. Jeremy Allaire value internet today way Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business. Jeremy Allaire view finance business people The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments. Jeremy Allaire away going go vision Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers. Jeremy Allaire blockchain value want people Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird. Jeremy Allaire think you innovation people Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy. Jeremy Allaire new good money age By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade. Jeremy Allaire new attractive economic design
