An interview with Brian Armstrong on crypto and economic freedom, Coinbase's “no politics in the workplace” policy, the crypto downturn, regulation, and more
Ahead of my lunch with crypto exchange chief Brian Armstrong, his team tell me they had tried to find a decent restaurant …
Financial Times Hannah Murphy
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Parker
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@AdamSinger @alex And this just seems incoherent and/or dishonest. You literally can't loan assets on chain for use off chain “transparently.” That was the problem with all these failures. You can't offer lending products (other than margin loans) on chain, and margin loans are a…
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@kylebrussell
Kyle Russell
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Duplicate a protocol. Rename, get your friends to lock up money in yield farming, begin the “the box” pump and dump process of offloading your associated coin as it climbs in value. Evil committed, no centralized tech required. “Can't be evil” assumes unrealistic participants htt…
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@adamsinger
Adam Singer
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@alex Why shouldn't he be bullish after selling millions in stock and sitting in his lavish home. He won lol
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@joshspero
Josh Spero
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“I've never met a poor libertarian in Silicon Valley, I think to myself” https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
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@mshannahmurphy
Hannah Murphy
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Where does Armstrong fit on the spectrum of shill to visionary? One former colleague tells me he's “like a guy riding a magic carpet, who thinks he's magic and not the carpet” But no one can doubt his self-belief. My Lunch with @ft with the Coinbase CEO: https://t.co/W27lKSWeYu
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@petersgoodman
Peter S. Goodman
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Other than the not insignificant problem of having presided over a bonfire that destroyed tens of billions of dollars in shareholder value, Brian Armstrong is definitely a Davos Man https://www.ft.com/...
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@adamlashinsky
Adam Lashinsky
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I read carefully to see if @brianarmstrong would offer a scintilla of an explanation of how crypto will amount to anything to justify the still $11B value of his company, rather than the usual platitudes. He doesn't. Spoiler alert: He just believes. https://www.ft.com/...
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@johnthornhillft
John Thornhill
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What's the cryptopians' answer to the crypto catastrophe? Why, more crypto, of course. Sparky Lunch with the FT with Coinbase's Brian Armstrong @MsHannahMurphy https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@henryfarrell
Henry Farrell
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https://www.ft.com/... This @MsHannahMurphy profile of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is very good, but it makes me want even more a tick-tock on how the Tornado Cash lawsuit emerged from a company saying this just 2 months before https://homeland.house.gov/...