Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.

Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.

There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.