Coinbase Moving Offshore?! with Tom Duff Gordon VP, International Policy, Coinbase
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ryan and David bring on Coinbase’s VP of International Policy, Tom Duff Gordon VP to discuss Coinbase’s exploration out of the United States.
Are they 4D chess? How does the crypto regulation in the U.S. shape up to overseas competition? Why is the U.S. driving crypto innovation abroad? Does the U.S. have any hope?
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
8:23 Is Coinbase Moving Offshore?
10:00 Coinbase’s International Plan
11:34 Will Coinbase Stay & Fight?
17:38 Is Ether a Security in the EU?
19:30 Ranking Crypto by Geography
24:03 The U.S.’s Crypto Friendliness Ranking
25:30 Coinbase International?
28:28 Coinbase’s Chessboard
32:46 Coinbase’s International Strategy
35:05 What U.S. Retail is Missing Out On
37:05 Coinbase’s Frustration
39:33 Coinbase’s Constraints
45:48 Crypto Game Theory
50:03 Timeline
50:35 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES:
Tom Duff Gordon
https://twitter.com/tomduffgordon
Coinbase Moving Offshore?
https://www.bankless.com/coinbase-offensive-sec-united-states
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless Nation, we have a special bonus episode for you. |
| 0:05.4 | Is Coinbase moving offshore? |
| 0:07.3 | That is the question. |
| 0:08.3 | Has the regulatory climate in the US become so bad that it has caused one of America's |
| 0:14.0 | largest exchanges to actually relocate to another jurisdiction? |
| 0:18.6 | That is the question we pose on today's episode. |
| 0:20.6 | We're going to be talking about Coinbase's digital asset business license from the Bermuda |
| 0:25.7 | Monetary Authority and what's going on over there. |
| 0:28.7 | David, who do we have on? |
| 0:29.9 | We're talking to Tom Gordon, who is a vice president of international policy at Coinbase. |
| 0:35.4 | This really got on our radar when Tom and his coworker release a blog post that talked |
| 0:41.0 | about this license that Coinbase has gotten in Bermuda, which has raised the question |
| 0:45.9 | is, is Coinbase moving offshore? |
| 0:48.3 | Are they doing one of those offshore derivatives exchanges, which we all know about? |
| 0:52.5 | We've seen these before. |
| 0:53.5 | It's Coinbase doing one. |
| 0:54.9 | These are the big questions and that's the questions that we start with asking Tom about, |
| 0:58.6 | then it spirals into a much longer conversation about the global chess board of international |
| 1:03.8 | rules and regulations and how that makes some areas easier for Coinbase to operate in and |
| 1:09.3 | harder for the Coinbase to operate in and how will this landscape change and adapt |
| 1:13.1 | moving forward and overall? |
| 1:14.6 | What is Coinbase's plan for navigating this changing chess board? |
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