Armstrong tweets in public airing of Coinbase's internal discontent
The petition was quickly removed, and the number of signatures was not shown, but its list of objections to the Coinbase status quo got a big reaction from the CEO. A disgruntled Coinbase employee, identified only as 0x58E3, created a petition on Mirror.xyz on Thursday calling for the removal of three company executives. The petition, titled Operation Revive COIN, has been taken down, but it was captured by the Internet Archive and other websites. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to it at length on Twitter. Coinbase chief operating officer Emilie Choi, chief product officer Surojit....
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Brian Armstrong, CEO of record-funded Bitcoin wallet service and exchange Coinbase, plans a code update to allow for bigger blocks in the second week of December, and has indicated he prefers BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) 101. This makes Coinbase the latest Bitcoin industry heavyweight to endorse the proposal as adopted by alternative Bitcoin implementation Bitcoin XT, although the company is still open to other solutions. Armstrong recently sent out a series of tweets in support of a block-size increase, in which he stated the intention to upgrade his company's code by December. It....
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The chief executive of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has eased out concerns regarding bankruptcy in one of his tweets. He further allayed the fears of Coinbase users by stating that the company’s latest quarterly filing was performed keeping in mind the requirements of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Further adding to that he mentions that […]
Leaked Coinbase audio sheds additional light on the company's apolitical sea change. Coinbase leadership recently moved to curb sociopolitical discourse within their company, mandating that the team should focus on the company's mission rather than politics. Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong later held an all-hands meeting, billed as an "ask me anything" session, to discuss changes in company culture with his employees. Audio of this staff-wide meeting from Oct. 1 was subsequently leaked to media outlet Motherboard; the technology wing of Vice media."An internal all-hands meeting....
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong feels pretty confident about the outcome of a block size hard fork. In fact, he’s willing to bet $5,000 that “Bitcoin’s first hard fork works out just fine.” In a Medium post by the Coinbase founder, Armstrong declares that the code will not be a split and is merely upgrading. Brian Armstrong has been very vocal about the....