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" Gox was a pattern of poor operations, poor customer service, poor PR. You can't just take bitcoin and hide. "
Tyler Winklevoss
Service
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" Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned. "
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" 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. "
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" We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin. "
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" Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for. "
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" To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet. "
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" 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. "
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" Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0. "
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" We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. "
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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. "
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" I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed. "
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Day
" If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap. "
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" 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. "
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" We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it. "
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" 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. "
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" There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers. "
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" Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?' "
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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. "
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" Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing. "
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" Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg. "
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" When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone. "
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" 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. "
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" With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information. "
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