Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on bitcoin going to $1 million, electing a pro-crypto Congress, and Jamie Dimon

Cheeky Pint · Aug 20, 2025 · 1h 16m · transcript

Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary financial account, and why banks are now embracing crypto.

Full episode transcript on Substack

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-on-bitcoin

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:14) How Coinbase won the exchange market

(06:22) Losing money on every bitcoin purchase

(10:54) North Korean hackers

(14:54) The Everything Exchange

(17:39)…