Q&A with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on starting the company, battling North Korean hackers, stablecoin adoption, the GENIUS Act, pro-crypto Congress, and more
Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what's happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers …
A profile of Tron founder Justin Sun, who wants to be the “Elon Musk of the crypto world” and advises the Trump-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal : X: @aosipovich and @bettermarkets . LinkedIn: H.E. Justin Sun X: Alexander Osipovich / @aosipovich : Who is Justin Sun, the new advisor to the Trump family's cr...
A profile of Alexis Ohanian, a Reddit co-founder, Serena Williams' husband, and early investor in Coinbase and ETH, who owns 700+ NFTs and raised $500M in 2022
Alexis Ohanian's ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized.
Coinbase plans to lay off a further ~950 employees, or ~20% of its workforce, seeking to reduce its operating expenses by 25% QoQ; Coinbase laid off 18% in June
- Coinbase is cutting a fifth of its workforce following an 18% staff reduction in June. — CEO Brian Armstrong pointed …
Coinbase names four executives, covering Ireland, Germany, the UK, and EMEA, to lead its expansion in Europe
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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 …
A look at Brian Armstrong's GiveCrypto, which started to financially empower those in need and aimed to raise $1B but turned into a mess of misplaced assurances
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FORTUNE; ORIGINAL PHOTOS BY GETTY IMAGES — Christian Maloba needed a job. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @justindoom , @leomschwartz , @leomschwartz , and @jeffjohnroberts Tweets: Tay...
Los Angeles-based Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a “sufficiently decentralized” social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised $30M led by a16z
Two years ago, Varun and I started working together on an idea called RSS+. Wayne Jones / crypto.news : U.S. Inflation at 9.1%, Farcaster's Successful in a Funding Round, Crypto Market Bearish Spell C...
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans
for the simple reason that no one (including the owner) would be permitted to make political statements or gestures of any kind on the job. It would be a place to work, and not an extension of the cul...
Coinbase plans to reduce its headcount by ~18%, or ~1,100 people, seeking to “stay healthy during this economic downturn”, saying the company “grew too quickly”
Earlier today, I shared the following note with all Coinbase employees. — Team,