“‘There are few things scarier than the threat of the government turning off your [portfolio] business and that possibility 100 percent exists with bitcoin,’ said Matthew Witheiler, principal at Flybridge Capital Partners, and one of the four investor panelists at the pitch event. ‘The bitcoin companies that win will be the ones that play by the rules.’ Andrew Chang, a partner at Liberty City Ventures, a VC firm that has created a dedicated bitcoin startup fund, said he is looking for startups that approach their business ‘not necessarily as tech startups would approach it, but as financial institutions would.'”
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