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" I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly. "
Tyler Winklevoss
Define
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" We eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin. "
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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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" We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal. "
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" To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet. "
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" Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen. "
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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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" When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone. "
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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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" Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0. "
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Web
Beginning
Were
" 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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You
Move On
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" We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin. "
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First
Early
Skepticism
" There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers. "
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Support
Us
Will
" Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?' "
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Dinner
Pure
Today
" 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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You
Thought
Me
" 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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You
Stock Market
Company
" With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information. "
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Bitcoin
Information
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" We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all. "
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Social
See
" 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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" 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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" I think fiat currencies will become digital. "
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" Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing. "
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People
Good
Afraid
" 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. "
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Summer
Think
Old
" The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express. "
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" Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. "
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Run
" 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 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. "
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