why aren't all 15 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 3 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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Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Armstrong: Majority of Global Payments Will Run on Crypto Rails
“Crypto's gonna update the entire financial system globally, and, like, the majority of all payments will run on these crypto rails.”
Assertion Supported
Armstrong: Fairshake PAC Raised Hundreds of Millions with 2M Crypto Advocates
“We had like two million Advocates who raised their hand in the US saying they wanted to elect a pro crypto Congress and candidates. We had like a couple hundred million dollars in the fair shake super pack.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: US Is on the Cusp of Passing Stablecoin Legislation
“And so we now have the most pro crypto Congress that we've ever seen. And we're on the cusp of getting stable coin and fair and market structure legislation passed.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong voted against USDC, which now makes Coinbase ~$1B in revenue
“USDC, I will tell you, I actually voted no on USDC to like, which was a terrible, now it's like almost a billion dollars of revenue or something for us.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Armstrong: Most traditional securities will be tokenized on-chain within five years
“So I actually think, like, most traditional securities are going to get tokenized on chain in the next five years.”
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2030
Armstrong: Most traditional securities will tokenize on-chain within five years
“So I actually think like most traditional securities are going to get tokenized on chain in the next five years.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: AI Now Handles Roughly 60% of Coinbase Support Inquiries
“Our customer support, I think like maybe 60% of inquiries are being answered by AI now, which is really good.”
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 Not checkable as stated
Severe inflation drives Bitcoin demand in Turkey and Nigeria
“Where people, like in Turkey, they're getting like, 70% inflation a year or something. It's just like, it's devastating to their entire economy. People have very high demand for the dollar and then Bitcoin. Same thing in Nigeria, et cetera.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: AI agents will act as personal registered investment advisors
“I think it's also, we're going to get, like, AI agents that can be kind of like your RIA, like your registered investment advisor, or almost like your trading bot.”
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 Not checkable as stated
Coinbase's $20 million extortion bounty generated 5,000 tips and 70 leads
“So we had like maybe 5000 like tips or inquiries like come into the email that we put out there. Most of it was junk, and we kind of wheeled it down. There's about like 70 or so credible leads, I would say.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Coinbase Super Bowl ad drove 20-30M visits in 20 seconds
“So our site actually crashed because we got about, like, 20, it was like 20 or thirty million visits in, in 20 seconds, like, and we knew there was gonna be a big surge, and so we had, like, I think the first page loaded and it was heavily cached, but then lik…”
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 Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Coinbase onboarded 100% of engineers to AI coding tools
“We onboarded all of our engineers to co-pilot and cursor and everything like that. So we got a hundred percent of them onboarded.”