Amazon can probably get packages to literally any place in the world, even if the last mile is on a dirt bike or something, what you can't get is paid for those goods, which is very ironic, that the physical stuff we can move all around the world and we can't get money to a lot of places around the world.

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We're in the bottom of the first inning, the game really hasn't started.

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Yes, there's been some ups and downs in between, but overall if you zoom out long enough, the trend is going in the right direction, the graph is still up and to the right.

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We've tried to solve that problem by creating Gemini, which allows you to engage with crypto in a regulated compliant trusted way, we're trying to make it easy to onboard because our own experience in the space was very difficult, scary, and risky, and we've spent the last five years trying to mitigate that.

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It's been really fun to be a part of two major revolutions or movements, i guess we sort of have a thing for networks : Facebook( FB) being a social network and then money or crypto being the ultimate social network.

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It's very exciting and validating for the space of crypto.

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

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

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Bitcoins - it's freedom. It's very American.

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Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

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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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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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I think fiat currencies will become digital.

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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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you youth wind people

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

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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.

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With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.

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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.

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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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When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

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