Media Appearances
Other Selected Media Appearances
- The Bitcoin Matrix: Yan Pritzker: Inventing Bitcoin, Building Swan & Leaving Russia
- Salvi Chicago: Bitcoin Chicago: Yan Pritzker of Swan Bitcoin
- Satoshi en Venezeuala: Hablemos de Bitcoin
- Satoshi en Venezuela: Hablemos de Bitcoin
- Swan Signal Live: Erik Townsend and Yan Pritzker
- End of the Chain: Bitcoin as Freedom Money
- Around the Coin: Why Bitcoin is Revolutionary Technology
- The Breakdown: Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money
- The BlockCode Podcast: The Future of Bitcoin Education
- Total Connector: Inventing Bitcoin with Yan Pritzker
- Bitcoin Rapid-Fire: Discussion about Inventing Bitcoin and Beginners
- Kestutis Rasimavicius: Inventing Bitcoin
- Market Disruptors: How Buying Bitcoin will save the world
- Citizen Bitcoin: The Money Red Pill, Bitcoin Tech and Swan Bitcoin
Writings on Bitcoin
Bitcoin: Utopia vs Reality
Does Bitcoin Have Intrinsic Value?
Exploding Three Myths About the Upcoming Bitcoin Halving
Inventing Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin Mining Decentralization a Threat to Bitcoin?
Is Bitcoin mining centralization a threat?
Rampant Inflation Is on the Way and Here’s What it Means for Bitcoin
The three futures of digital money
What is Bitcoin?
What is a Bitcoin Fork
We’re gonna get free slowly. Bitcoin is freedom money.
Biography
Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. Yan spent the last twenty years as a software developer and entrepreneur focusing on tech startups. His most recent company, Reverb, was acquired by Etsy in 2019. Yan is the author of the book Inventing Bitcoin, the best technical book for beginners, and gives talks on Bitcoin related topics ranging from the importance of Bitcoin as a tool for freedom to the technical details of how Bitcoin works.
Quotes
“Yes it is volatile,” Pritzker said. “And yes it does create a lot of hype. But that’s where our mission has gone, to reduce that hype and really make it clear to people that what they should be doing is saving a little bit at a time, regardless of the price.”
It’s a savings plan. We’re looking at bitcoin as something that you’re putting away for a rainy day. You’re saving a little bit every month.
There’s nothing wrong with trying new ideas. The problem is when you sell these things as money, right? And then you try to compete with something like Bitcoin, which is the hardest, most decentralized, most immutable money on the planet.
We’re exporting our inflation to the rest of the world with all this money we’re printing.
I like that there’s a new narrative emerging around Bitcoin as a savings tool.
The longer that Bitcoin goes on, the easier it is to tell a story. It’s hard to tell a story now about a new money that’s only 10 years old or 11 years old. It’s gonna be easier to tell that story to our kids who will have 25 years of this money existing behind them
People always forget how early we are into Bitcoin.... The reality is half a percent of the world has any Bitcoin. It might be as high as 3-5% in America, but most of those people have it on Coinbase, and they don’t know what they bought.
Bitcoin is a painful teacher. You either learn from other people’s experiences or you learn from your own.
We believe that as our money goes fully digital, we’re going to have to choose between a digital, government-controlled money or a freedom money like Bitcoin. And over time, people are gonna make that choice for themselves, and hopefully, people will choose the freedom money.
We’re gonna get free slowly. Bitcoin is freedom money.
It will be too late if you have to get Bitcoin at a time where everything’s already locked down... You need to be getting it when it’s still not on anybody’s radar.
The smart people are accumulating Bitcoin.
We’re exporting our inflation to the rest of the world with all this money we’re printing