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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. "

Tyler Winklevoss

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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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

" Bitcoins - it's freedom. It's very American. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I remember when people called Facebook a fad. "

" We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. "

" When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone. "

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

" I think fiat currencies will become digital. "

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

" With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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" The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express. "

" I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly. "

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

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

" 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. "