Crypt currency, that's Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all the others,

cryptocurrency and spinach. How are they like?

You either love them or you hate them.

The late billionaire investor Charlie Munger on

cryptocurrency quote, this is a quotation, I hate it, close quote, which brings us

to our guest today who loves it. The co-founder and chief executive officer of

coin base, one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world, Brian Armstrong,

on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

I'm Peter Robinson. The son of two engineers Brian Armstrong grew up in San Jose, California,

went to high school at Bellerman Prep down the road from this studio, a Jesuit boys school, and then attended

Rice University where he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science.

Mr. Armstrong worked for IBM, for Deloitte, and for AirB&B,

and then in 2012 at the age of not quite 30,

as I make it out, he founded Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange of which he remains, Chief Executive

Officer.

Coinbase now has a market capitalization of some 52 billion dollars. Brian welcome.

Thank you for having me. Okay, we have to begin with this. I'm going to quote a Twitter post, X post as it's called now, from something

called coin-based support. And this is a post a few days ago, and we're talking in early March.

This is from the very end of February.

Quote, we are aware, we at Coinbase, we are aware that some users may see a

zero balance and may experience errors in buying or selling. our team is investigating, your assets are safe."

Close quote.

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