Balaji S. SrinivasanVerified account

@balajis

CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal. Contact:

Stanford, CA
coinbase.com
Joined November 2013
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    8 hours ago

    My kids pretty much self learned pre-school materials on youtube kids, the only thing is hard to detach kids from long watching to the shows.

    Recently discovered that YouTube is raising the next generation. Kids below the age of three are already glued to YouTube on iPad Pros, instead of television. A new electronic babysitter? Arguably better than TV — at least it’s programmable with educational content via playlists.
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    9 hours ago

    My 5 year old son watches videos on Thomas Edison (his hero) & knows more about astronomy, human anatomy & botany than either of his parents, because YouTube

    Recently discovered that YouTube is raising the next generation. Kids below the age of three are already glued to YouTube on iPad Pros, instead of television. A new electronic babysitter? Arguably better than TV — at least it’s programmable with educational content via playlists.
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    Recently discovered that YouTube is raising the next generation. Kids below the age of three are already glued to YouTube on iPad Pros, instead of television. A new electronic babysitter? Arguably better than TV — at least it’s programmable with educational content via playlists.

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    Jul 3

    Successfully training neural networks requires almost no math skills, but does require knowing a large number of otherwise useless tricks.

    What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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    20 hours ago

    Obstacles to mainstream crypto adoption in Venezuela, ranked: 1. *Actually usable* mobile wallet that runs on Android 4.0 and bypasses censorship 2. LOW FEES 3. Crypto/VEF liquidity ... ... ... 8389. Volatility. Remember we're using a currency that halves in value every month.

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    Jul 4

    Updating some slides, quite amazing

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    18 hours ago

    “I’m almost certain that in 10 or 20 years that I’ll get much better cardiac care from my cellphone in a village in India than [from a doctor] at Stanford.” - at

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    Jun 27

    We just released a book that focusses on all aspects of growing your business. Give it a read:

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    Jul 3

    Fascinating visualisation of how people interpret probabilistic terms

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    Jul 2

    With a fully sequenced genome for the aquatic salamander called an axolotl, scientists hope to unlock the secret of regenerating lost body parts.

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    Jul 2

    Me, and of helping with his first Bitcoin transaction ever. Had a great time at the debate tonight. Peter was reasonable and curious, and it was an honor and privilege to share the stage this evening.

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    Jul 2

    The audience was asked to vote on whether they saw bitcoin beating government fiat at the beginning and end of the debate: the yay votes rose from 40 to 55%, while the nay votes fell from 40 to 31%

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    Jul 2

    Deposits are now rolling in for we're live! Crypto is quickly becoming an institutional asset class. If you run a fund, sign up for more info on storing crypto.

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    Jul 2

    Coinbase Custody is officially open for business, providing secure storage of crypto assets for institutions in both the US and Europe. Before the end of the year, we hope to bring this offering to Asia as well.

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    Jun 28

    It's now possible to implement face tracking and emotion detection in 10 lines of code — I'd expect apps (esp streaming apps) to start using that to detect moments of delight / frustration. The era of data-driven content creation is just getting started.

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    Jul 1

    ❤️

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    Jul 1

    Neural networks come to the super low-cost computer vision camera. Train on your PC (or in the cloud) and run the model in a board not much larger than the lens. Perfect for

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    Jul 1

    Story of the zipper = story of most new tech: early inventors failing to capitalize, incremental improvements leading to critical early customers (B.F. Goodrich!), some clever marketing, then hockey stick growth 🤐 Fun read:

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    Jun 29

    3. Defendant proved that its content was originally produced by showing two hash values: one on the bitcoin blockchain, another on FACTOM. The defendant had hashed the relevant data onto the relevant chains & proved by way of timestamp that infringement would’ve been impossible.

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    Jun 29

    2. The Internet Court of Hangzhou court ruled that data stored on the blockchain is admissible as evidence in trial due to the characteristics of the tech. The facts are pretty basic: a dispute over IP/ copyright on a website.

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