Tyler Winklevoss Quotes

Bitcoin as an asset class is brilliant, as a means of payment, fantastic.

If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.

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

I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn't tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.

Digital currency is now a misnomer for Bitcoin. It can be used as currency, but it can be used for many things.

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

Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn't just a flash in the pan.

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.

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

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.

I don't think it's any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.

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

By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.

Bitcoin is not currency; it's the internet of money!

Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for the bitcoin; they value it because they believe that they can exchange it for something else.

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy.