{"id":15379,"date":"2026-01-20T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:47:52","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-on-crypto-regulation-banks-should-compete-on-a-level-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-on-crypto-regulation-banks-should-compete-on-a-level-playing-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Crypto Regulation: Banks Should Compete on a Level Playing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen. Consequently, it&#8217;s an interesting interview segment as the OCGFC agents meet in Davos. Consequently, I do not like greedy Coinbase, and it would take significant circumstances for me to ever use their services. But the fact that stablecoins are backed 100% by treasuries is interesting, and how quickly the host moves things along from Armstrong getting into fractional reserve banking, which is so much more than just lending out people&#8217;s money without permission, as you end up with a tiny amount of the money they&#8217;ve created being backed by actual money in accounts, which is why bank runs are such a threat when confidence in this house of cards is lost. To understand fractional reserve banking, see the video in this <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/preston-pysh-explains-why-sab-121-beats-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> which covers it in one minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on crypto regulation: Banks should compete on a level playing field\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vq_7hZW5jc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen. Consequently, it&#8217;s an interesting interview segment as the OCGFC agents meet in Davos. Consequently, I do not like greedy Coinbase, and it would take significant circumstances for me to ever use their services. But the fact that stablecoins are backed 100% by treasuries is interesting, and how quickly the host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}