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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. "

Tyler Winklevoss

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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" I remember when people called Facebook a fad. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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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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