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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.
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.
Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.
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.
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.
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.
There’s a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It’s absurd to think otherwise.
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.
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.
The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.
With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
I’m not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.
Hate is a strong word. It’s also very destructive, so no – I don’t hate Mark Zuckerberg.
We eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin.
There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers.
We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.
I’ve been a huge fan of Mike Judge for a long time.
Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.
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.
I think fiat currencies will become digital.
We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.
When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.
Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.
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.
Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing.
If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.
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.
Gox was a pattern of poor operations, poor customer service, poor PR. You can’t just take bitcoin and hide.
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.
Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.
Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren’t like, ‘Did the Yankees win today?’
I remember when people called Facebook a fad.
Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen.
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.
One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.
When you have a lot of talent, you don’t necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.
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.
To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.