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this is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow. in Edla Loeb. Welcome to Bloomberg Technology. I'm Ed Ludlow in San Francisco. We're standing

by for a special conversation with the coin-based CEO Brian Armstrong have a listen

The first thing you did and how how far do you think you're going to have to go here?

Yeah, well this was not unexpected.

You know, we've been in discussion with the SEC

for a long, long time.

Even going back to before we were a public company,

we started sharing with them how we operate our business, how we

list assets on the platform, how we think about our staking program, and through a large number

of dialogues back and forth they allowed us to become a public company. You know, we had many discussions

with them in the last year when their tone started to change and they started to come to us with

more questions about the business. So we were very forthcoming. We met with them probably 30 times

over the last year and we started to kind of ask them for feedback and we said you

know we would like there to be a robust market in the US to trade

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