
“The Winklevoss twins, who transformed a lucrative Facebook payout into a venture capital fund, say it’s now time for bitcoin companies to work with governments rather than against them. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates famously portrayed in the 2010 film The Social Network, showed up at the Bitcoin 2013 conference to talk up the future of the Internet’s favorite alternative currency — as long as it escapes a government crackdown. ‘I don’t think anyone wants a fight — I think everyone here wants to build bitcoin, to work with regulators,’ Cameron Winklevoss told over 1,000 conference attendees. ‘Cooperation is really the way forward.'”
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