Coinbase's Reddit AMA: ‘It’s like Amazon in the early days’

Coinbase's Reddit AMA: ‘It’s like Amazon in the early days’

Brian Armstrong compares Coinbase to Amazon in the early days in terms of innovations that will benefit customers. The CEO of U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Brian Armstrong has apologized for poor customer support and revealed the company could integrate with DeFi protocols in a comprehensive Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. The Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) posted on March 17 had amassed over a thousand questions and responses from members of the social media platform. Company CEO Brian Armstrong and CFO Alessia Haas finally got around to responding to a few of them a week later on March....


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