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" Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature. "

Tyler Winklevoss

Building

You

Discovery

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" When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short. "

" The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down. "

Tyler Winklevoss

You

Thought

" We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all. "

" I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends. "

" Every investor around the world wants to invest in U.S. markets because they're regulated and they're licensed. They're trustworthy; they have confidence. If you take that away, the global economy will take a hit like nothing else. We want to create that for Bitcoin. "

" Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. "

" I've been a huge fan of Mike Judge for a long time. "

" The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure. "

" The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen. "

" In our early experiences with bitcoin, we found how few people were building bitcoin exchanges the right way. They really weren't taking the regulation seriously; they were taking it too much like how you would approach something when you're 18, full of the excitement of youth and throwing caution to the wind. "

" I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that. "

" For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn about yourself, the sense of satisfaction as you get older and move on, you'll never forget that. It's huge. "

Tyler Winklevoss

You

Move On

" I think it's always interesting when you see a company start moving so quickly - it's like wow, incredible. When a company like Uber starts breaking away, it's not a linear thing. It's exponential. All of a sudden, the guy you know who threw $25,000 at Uber very early on - all the sudden, that $25,000 is $25 million. "

" One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it. "

" On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing. "

" Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?' "

" There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers. "

Tyler Winklevoss

Support

Will

" Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned. "

" Gemini is a spot bitcoin exchange. To use it, you sign up with Gemini.com and undergo the initial standard review process, similar to what you'd encounter at a traditional bank. Once you're through, you can ACH or wire cash to the platform, then begin buying and selling bitcoin. "

" Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen. "

" Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for. "

" We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based. "

Tyler Winklevoss

Grow

Entrepreneur

" Calling bitcoin volatile - it's a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That's what unregulated assets do. "

" To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet. "

" Facebook is like the Internet: a large company and an application. Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralisation, so you could build a decentralised company on top of it, a stock market. It's an Internet of ownership, so it's not quite a direct comparison. "

" We've weathered a few storms before, like when social networking was considered a fad. I think that we have a track record of being on to something big. "

Tyler Winklevoss

Networking

Storms

" Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg. "

" You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online. "

" I remember when people called Facebook a fad. "