Quotes from Tyler Winklevoss

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 eat, sleep, breathe bitcoin.

There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers.

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

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

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.

We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

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.

I think fiat currencies will become digital.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

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.

Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.

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.

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.

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

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.