Tyler Winklevoss Quotes
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Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.
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There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers.
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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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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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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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Bitcoins - it's freedom. It's very American.
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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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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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With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
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The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.
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I think fiat currencies will become digital.
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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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Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
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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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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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Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing.
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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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To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.
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Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.
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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.