
“‘Someday, either zombies walk the Earth or something close to that,’ says Byrne, the son of the man who built the GEICO insurance empire, Jack Byrne, and a protege of Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in the history of Wall Street. ‘Bitcoin is the solution.’ Like Marc Andreessen, one of the founding fathers of the web browser, who has also put his weight behind the digital currency, Byrne brings more than highfalutin metaphors to the table. The 51-year-old has proven that, beneath his wonderfully entertaining and often perplexing way of describing the world, he has a knack for seeing where things are going before others do.”
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/rise-fall-rise-patrick-byrne/
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