Armstrong: Bitcoin community is ideological; Ethereum community is pragmatic technologists
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong compares the developer culture and community mindset between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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“The Bitcoin group, I would say they had a lot of people join early on that were kind of more ideologically motivated or perhaps pedantic... And the Ethereum community I would describe as more like technologists or people who just want to focus on the underlying technology and build something that scales.”
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