The avaricious misanthropy of Brian Armstrong

The avaricious misanthropy of Brian Armstrong

If the mission is to create economic freedom for Coinbase's CEO, he's taking all the right steps. You can tell from Brian Armstrong’s opening words that he’s a numbers guy.“There have been a lot of difficult events in the world this year,” understated the Coinbase CEO in announcing that forthwith, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States would do a better job of ignoring them.According to Armstrong’s recent blog post, Coinbase’s mission is to “create an open financial system for the world”. He left out the second half of the company’s mission statement, the part about being....


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