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Freethink expressed: “No one took him seriously. Now, his company stores more than $90 billion dollars in assets. Here’s how Brian Armstrong built Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.”

A couple of my friends were like, “I don’t know why you are in to this.  It seems like a scam.”

There were periods when I felt like “Am I crazy, because I just couldn’t help myself. “

Bitcoin is a digital currency. It sounds so silly, but may be it is not.  I was an employee at Airbnb and nights and weekends, I could not stop thinking about Bitcoin.

I had a lot of self-doubt about it at that time, cause again my friends thought it was weird.  You almost had to have like a computer science degree to understand it.  So, these things were like private keys, where you if you lose them the money is gone. If you want to send money using crypto it has a cybersecurity thing, otherwise someone is going to hack your stuff.

It was all very clunky and hard to use.  But the thing that I loved about it was that its accessible to everybody in the world. And, I eventually said, you know what – I’ve got to try building something in this space.

The global financial system is made up of governments, banks and other institutions prone to inefficiency, and sometimes even corruption.

Brian Armstrong built Coinbase to increase access to a new world economy, the crypto economy. The company took off.

News Channels:  Coinbase going public this Wednesday through a direct listing.  Coinbase is now valued at around a 100 billion dollars and has made Brain a leading voice in crypto. But what happens when you go from being a disruptor to building an institution?

A show from Free Think Media about Founders Challenging the Status Quo.

Eventually, it turned out in to building a new economy in to the world filled with crazy ambitious mission.  Those who want to know the exhaustive details might want to check the full video.

Community response:  Being able to be a trader and know you can almost instantly invest in companies on the other side of the world with little friction is everything to me.

Causes Admiration. Bravo.

All crypto to Zero. Where is the SEC? Jail the fraudsters and pumpers.