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Brian Armstrong calls Sam Bankman-Fried brilliant and praises FTX execution speed
“I think Sam is a brilliant guy. I've gotten a chance to talk to him on a number of occasions. I think he's done a really good job of kind of generating interest in the company with his public persona, which is something that, you know, as more of an introvert,…”
Armstrong: Gary Gensler failed to create clear crypto rules and has been uncooperative
“I think that he had a major opportunity to come in and actually like clearly regulate the industry and publish clear rules and say, this is a security. This is not work with the CFTC and other areas of government to kind of create a clear framework, which prot…”
Armstrong: Bitcoin community is ideological; Ethereum community is pragmatic technologists
“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 underlyin…”
Armstrong: Scaling YouTube or Twitter was harder than scaling Bitcoin or Ethereum
“I don't think, like, Bitcoin or Ethereum is on the order of magnitude of that heart of a problem. Like, I think scaling YouTube was probably way harder, or scaling Twitter or something like that was probably way harder than the kind of things we need to do to …”
Armstrong: Coinbase's Toshi is the Netscape moment for digital currency
“So that's what we're doing with Toshi, which is really kind of like a browser for the Ethereum network. It's kind of like the Netscape moment, if you will, for digital currency, and that we've made it dramatically easier for people to use digital currency apps…”