If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
Valuation is what people are willing to pay.
One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.
