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“Bitcoin is the world’s digital monetary system, and Lightning is Bitcoin’s payments layer,” Cathie Wood, the head of Coinbase’s second-biggest shareholder, ARK Invest, wrote on X in response to Armstrong’s post Wednesday. “Coinbase’s integration with Lightning will give its 100 million users an on-ramp to faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions.
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Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed its decision to integrate layer 2 payment protocol Lightning Network as users seek faster and cheaper Bitcoin (BTC) transactions. Lighting Network (LN) was created to help solve Bitcoin’s scalability problem and to compete against newer cryptocurrency projects that promised comparatively faster and cheaper transactions. Up until recently,
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Binance.US, the United States arm of the crypto exchange has reportedly cut around a third of its staff — or 100 positions — with its president and CEO Brian Shroder also departing the firm.On Sep. 13, Bloomberg reported, citing a Binance.US spokesperson, that Shroder was replaced on an interim basis
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has shared his predictions for the role crypto will play in next years' elections in the United States, claiming that representatives in Washington, D.C. do not fully understand the crypto community's voting power in the upcoming race."I don’t think everybody in DC actually fully realizes how
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The last point I’ll make is that when coming up with examples for non-financial uses, Armstrong did immediately go to decidedly financial examples: “Things like stablecoins for payments, DeFi, NFTs, these have already gotten substantial traction. But I think with Layer 2 solutions coming online, these can get much, much
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Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, confirmed that the crypto exchange is “looking into” adding the Bitcoin (BTC) Lighting network in its quest to spread crypto payments adoption across the globe.On July 28, Armstrong addressed the crypto community on Twitter (rebranded to X), highlighting the potential of cryptocurrencies to improve
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will meet with a bipartisan group of US House of Representatives on July 19 to discuss proposed new laws about digital assets. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit
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The meeting will concern "digital-asset legislation and related issues including tax, national security, privacy and climate," the report said. Recently, lawmakers from the House and Senate have introduced separate bills in an attempt to bring clarity to crypto regulation, though the reality of a divided Congress means it's unclear whether
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While 19.3% answered Armstrong’s query “no,” a whopping 9%, which would translate into roughly 1,200 people given there were 13,746 respondents to the question as of press time, said “yes.” The rest didn’t participate in the poll but were solely interested in seeing the results. Source
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Coinbase will work to become a “super-app” over the next 5 to 7 years. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has not let the recent regulatory pressure from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), get to him. This follows after the SEC recently slammed the exchange with a damning lawsuit that has
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