Tyler Winklevoss Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
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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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The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.
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Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.
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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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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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We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.
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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.
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I think fiat currencies will become digital.
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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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We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.