why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Supported
Hays: Jeffrey Epstein Invested in Coinbase at a $400M Valuation
“Looking back and seeing, seeing even, even after the original conviction, how many companies he was able to get in, he got into Coinbase at 400.”
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: Coinbase Issued a $20 Million Bounty to Catch Extortionists
“We put out a twenty million dollar bounty for any information leading to their arrest. And conviction.”
Assertion Supported
Hays: Coinbase is acquiring Cobie's Echo for $375 million
“Coinbase and Kobe announced that Coinbase is acquiring Echo. Yes. Echo is an angel list like platform for crypto. So they help groups of people invest in different projects. Yep. They paid three hundred and seventy five million. And so you can think of this as…”
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: Attackers demanded $20 million extortion payment from Coinbase
“They sent us this demand once, once we were, you know, they realized they'd been found out, and customers were kind of getting educated about this they sent us this demand for twenty million dollars, or we're gonna release all this information.”
Assertion Supported
Coinbase Establishes Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain
“So Coinbase established an independent advisory board on quantum computing and blockchain.”
Assertion Partly supported
Armstrong: Early Coinbase referral program paid $10 in Bitcoin per user
“If you invited your friend and they onboarded They got 10 dollars of bitcoin, and you got 10 dollars of bitcoin. And at the time, that was like about one bitcoin.”
Assertion Contradicted
Coogan: Coinbase offered a 1 BTC referral bonus during YC Summer 2012
“In our YC batch, the referral bonus for going on Coinbase at the time was one Bitcoin.”