Balaji Srinivasan

Utila team (Utila)
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,...
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Balaji Srinivasan (Portrait by Mason Webb)
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)

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

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

Balaji Srinivasan: $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Take Longer Than 90 Days
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 20...
Balaji Srinivasan: $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Take Longer Than 90 Days

Founder of The Network State on Managing Digital Financial Risk
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.
Founder of The Network State on Managing Digital Financial Risk

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

Bitcoin Reclaims $30K: What's Next?
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, reacti...
Bitcoin Reclaims $30K: What's Next?

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

(Peter McCormack)
Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong
Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack writes about the seeming return of bitcoin's inflation hedge thesis, and what it takes to get people into bitcoin.
(Peter McCormack)