Patrick M. Byrne Quotes

United States, Businessman
1962

Patrick M. Byrne (born 1962, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer and CEO of Overstock.com. In 1999, Byrne launched Overstock, after leading two smaller companies, including one owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Also known as Entrepreneur

How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?

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- Real
- High
- Question
This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.

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- Problem
- Trust
- Will

I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.

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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

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- Money
- Want
- Government
We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away, but we need other options if it crashes or wildly inflates.

Patrick M. Byrne
- Good
- Crazy
- Strategy