Brian Armstrong

16 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 21, 2018 by Brian Armstrong · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 21, 2018 neutral
Insight
Armstrong: Mainstream crypto adoption requires scalability, stablecoins, and better dev tools
“It's like, we've got to get the scalability of the networks up. The volatility of the coins probably needs to come down, or stable coins, which is like this whole, you know, area of research happening right now with like a dozen teams is going to be a really g…”
Brian Armstrong Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 29:10 Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
Dec 21, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: Only 40 million people worldwide own cryptocurrency in 2018
“I mean, so there, there's only about forty million people in the world today who have a little bit of crypto, and most of them have gotten into it by buying a little bit as an investment.”
Brian Armstrong Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 37:51 Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
Dec 21, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Armstrong founded a charity delivering direct crypto payments in Venezuela
“In fact, you know, I started a charity that's making small direct cash payments to people in places like Venezuela with crypto which we can talk about.”
Brian Armstrong Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 24:29 Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
Dec 21, 2018 bullish
Prediction Held up
Armstrong plans to scale Coinbase and run a public company
“For me, I actually want to be a CEO, run a business, have it be enormous, like, I'd like to run a public company someday”
Brian Armstrong Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 22:50 Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Armstrong: Two to three billion cell phone owners are unbanked
“And there's something like two to three billion people in the world who have a cell phone, but do not have a bank account or credit card.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:06 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Developing world's first bank accounts will be mobile crypto wallets
“And we think a whole generation of kids and people in the developing world will actually grow up, and their very first quote unquote bank account will actually be a digital currency wallet on their cell phone.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:32 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Armstrong: I am long Bitcoin and dollar-cost average my purchases
“Personally, yes, I'm long Bitcoin. I buy Bitcoin. I, I'm not too concerned about the price day to day. I tend to dollar cost, average it over a long period of time.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:01 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Armstrong: Bitcoin-native applications will create multi-billion dollar companies
“So, these are very small today, but I think in the future some of these will end up being many multi-billion dollar companies and systems.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:19 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Bitcoin mainstream adoption will be gradual, not a single breakthrough
“Is there going to be some moment where bitcoin just suddenly is mainstream? No, I don't think so. I think it's going to be, you know, a series of lots of small things that happen over time.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:18 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Bitcoin usage will invert to 80% payments and 20% speculation
“And I think over time what'll happen is that those two percentages will shift. The 80% will end up becoming the 20% speculative asset, and it'll be 80% payment network actually happening.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:55 a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Future generations will never own traditional checkbook bank accounts
“There's going to be this whole generation of kids that grow up, and their phone is the only bank account they've ever known. They're never going to have a bank account in the way we think of it with a checkbook or something like that”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:48 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Armstrong: Global payment systems are non-innovative, expensive national oligopolies
“It's this patchwork quilt of different countries. They all have their own proprietary system for pay-ins and pay-outs, and they don't really have an incentive to innovate. It's like a little oligopoly in each country with high fees and slow movement of funds a…”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:00 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Open financial networks will expand global economic freedom and property rights
“We think that's going to bring about all kinds of benefits for the world, you know, a lot of innovation, quality of opportunity, economic freedom, strong property rights for people all over the world.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:59 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: One billion people will use open finance within 20 years
“There's a billion people using the open financial system on a daily basis, and, you know, I think that could be done in five years, like, without a lot of hard work, it could be 10 years, 20 years.”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:01 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Armstrong: 90% of global capital resides in institutional hands
“90% of the capital out there is actually in institutions”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:42 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: 90% of 2018 crypto activity is investment and speculation
“I think still 90% of what people are doing with crypto is investment or speculation, and that's great as an initial way to get people's interest into crypto, but it's more interesting to think about, you know, the utility phase, which is this 10%”
Brian Armstrong Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:32 a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
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