Winklevoss twins' Bitcoin 2013 Talk - page 3.

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Quote from: abbyd on May 19, 2013, 02:18:30 PM

Quote from: canada on May 19, 2013, 01:13:48 PM

that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.

It was a little bit DUH, I guess when you're born into such wealth you really don't have to be all that smart?

On the other hand, maybe they'll make "Jager Bombs", whores, and polo shirts easier to buy with BTC?

Bingo.

If you're rich, you've got to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you're poor, you've got to be a genius to get rich.

I saw someone say Bitcoin wasn't fair because it didn't keep the existing wealth structure. WTF.

Don't know what the guy did. He was probably a bankster.

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brb keeping up with the Kardashians

Quote from: canada on May 19, 2013, 01:13:48 PM

that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.

True, they're no Matt Mullenweg when it comes to public speaking, but I thought their presentation was pretty good.

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Quote from: canada on May 19, 2013, 01:13:48 PM

that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.

It was a little bit DUH, I guess when you're born into such wealth you really don't have to be all that smart?

On the other hand, maybe they'll make "Jager Bombs", whores, and polo shirts easier to buy with BTC?

canada

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that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.

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Everyone seems to miss the glaring point about "working with" the existing financial system.

It is all temporary. Bitcoin is the "poison pill" that will kill the host that doesn't adapt. So while the government and sundry financial services will be trumpeting success with Bitcoin's "taming" - what they're really enabling is for a bridge to exist between the old and the new, with the new eventually overwhelming the corrupt system.

Bitcoin is here to stay, and it doesn't matter what kind of slice the old bastards take out of it - it will be their downfall.

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R.I.P Silk Road 1.0

Wouldn't government adoption of Bitcoin undermine many of it's essential revolutionary features? Sure the crypto currency might ensure its success this way but wouldn't it also lose its original purpose?

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Quote from: Gordonium on May 18, 2013, 05:31:25 PM

Great talk. I always used to think that they were total tools. I was wrong.

Yeah; an excellent talk. The thing I like about them is that they never, ever give up.

And I'm really hoping that their goal is to use the dough they got from Zuckerberg to wipe Facebook Credits off the map with bitcoin. Heh. Irony... Cool

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Again we see investors looking to make an exit in Bitcoin pushing the remittance market and regulation as the ultimate goal and absolute pinnacle of success for a cryptocurrency, as though $400 billion were significant enough to support Bitcoin in the long run. To put that in perspective, the economies of all but a handful of tiny island nations are worth more than that. If Bitcoin can't even reach the size of, say, Iceland, it's doomed. We have to think bigger.

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Quote from: sgravina on May 18, 2013, 09:20:06 PM

No questions? Come on. These guys own 1% of all the bitcoins. Doesn't that raise anyone's curiosity?

If anybody gets a chance ask them these questions:

1. Why?
2. How did you acquire your bitcoins?
3. What is your cost basis?
4. Are they held a personal property or as corporate property?
5. How does your bitcoin security work?
6. How will you handle bitcoins in your tax returns?

They've already answered 1, 2, 3 (roughly), and 5. Not that they had any obligation to do so.

4 and 6 ain't anybody's business.

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kinda like preaching to the choir presentation Cheesy

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Quote from: smoothie on May 18, 2013, 08:44:13 PM

Quote from: Gordonium on May 18, 2013, 05:31:25 PM

Great talk. I always used to think that they were total tools. I was wrong.

Same here.

They were quite humble and open minded. Very good talk.

+1 My personal opinion of them changed quite a bit.

There was no really important or new information in their talk, but at least it has shown that they probably are not the elitist assholes that I imagined them to be.

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Thank you!

kevcoins

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good to know they are into bitcoin

herzmeister

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what's their name on this forum anyway? Huh

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nice .I'll share from my websites this video and pic.

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as long as they don't claim that they are satoshi nakamoto and try sueing gavin andressen for some odd reason links with stealing code.

.... but then again, it would make a nice sequel to the social network movie and gain some more publicity

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Quote from: sgravina on May 18, 2013, 09:20:06 PM

No questions? Come on. These guys own 1% of all the bitcoins. Doesn't that raise anyone's curiosity?

If anybody gets a chance ask them these questions:

1. Why?
2. How did you acquire your bitcoins?
3. What is your cost basis?
4. Are they held a personal property or as corporate property?
5. How does your bitcoin security work?
6. How will you handle bitcoins in your tax returns?

Some of these questions they don't have to answer now do they?

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No questions? Come on. These guys own 1% of all the bitcoins. Doesn't that raise anyone's curiosity?

If anybody gets a chance ask them these questions:

1. Why?
2. How did you acquire your bitcoins?
3. What is your cost basis?
4. Are they held a personal property or as corporate property?
5. How does your bitcoin security work?
6. How will you handle bitcoins in your tax returns?

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Quote from: Gordonium on May 18, 2013, 05:31:25 PM

Great talk. I always used to think that they were total tools. I was wrong.

Same here.

They were quite humble and open minded. Very good talk.

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thanks very much for this, i'm gutted I couldn't be there. Hoping to be able to see most of the good talks the come out of the weekend.

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