About this episode From the show’s notes Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary financial account, and why banks are now embracing crypto.
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Timestamps
Chapters 23 · press a time to start there 00:00 Intro 01:14 How Coinbase won the exchange market 06:22 Losing money on every bitcoin purchase 10:54 North Korean hackers 14:54 The Everything Exchange 17:39 Crypto will be bigger than gold 19:22 Stablecoin adoption 23:28 Jamie Dimon and big banks on crypto 26:44 Coinbase as your primary financial account 27:53 Neobanks 29:41 Bitcoin going to $1 million 33:16 Crypto in an investment portfolio Show all 23 chapters 34:43 GENIUS Act 37:10 Electing a pro-crypto Congress 45:24 Reforming accredited investor rules 48:33 Squashing scams 50:11 Bitcoin preserving the American experiment 57:09 Balaji Srinivasan 1:01:05 The mission-first company announcement 1:05:50 How does Coinbase focus? 1:07:44 Venture bets and Brian vetoing USDC 1:12:02 Brian’s AI coding mandate 1:15:13 Advice for Stripe 
