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The Paradoxes of Coinbase

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By the middle of 2021, Sam saw that he could not sweet-talk regulators and at the same time have CZ as a big investor. If you wanted to be the teacher’s pet, you couldn’t sit in the back of the classroom with the badass in the leather jacket. The first thing every regulator asked for was a list of your investors, and personal details about them.
... See moreThe venture capitalists could see how fast FTX was growing—that they were wildcatters sitting on a gusher—but were unsure if what they were seeing was closer to the last gallon of oil than the first. Was it just a big trade that would go away with the crypto craze, or was Sam building something enduring? If the latter, he’d need access to American
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