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

Tyler Winklevoss

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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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" 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. "

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" You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online. "

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

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

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

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" Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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