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" 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. "

Tyler Winklevoss

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise. "

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

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

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" I think fiat currencies will become digital. "

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" 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. "

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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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" We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0. "

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" 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 are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal. "

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" We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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

" 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. "

Tyler Winklevoss

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

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

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" Gox was a pattern of poor operations, poor customer service, poor PR. You can't just take bitcoin and hide. "

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

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" Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia. "

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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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" We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin. "

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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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