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The best Christmas gift I can give myself this year is actually once and for all getting my crypto out of your company. And no I am not cancelling my NYT to have Autism Capital be my news source.

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I'm struggling to understand wtf they're even talking about. Their guy won. Crypto won. What are they so upset about?

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I don’t know and honestly don’t care. I do not want to know ANYTHING about the politics about the CEOs of financial institutions. It’s like similar principles to me as the idea behind Fed Independence. This is the second time now where I have been like holy crap your tweets are a risk to my funds. No other financial institution CEO talks like this afaik. Like go scroll around on Vlad Tenev’s feed. You don’t see this.

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Dwayne 'The Jock' Ronson

Wait can you say how his tweets are a risk to your funds at Coinbase?

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above all it demonstrates lack of sound judgement to me and that is not the posture I want from someone who holds on to my money. What other dumbass stuff is on the table if he is so impulsive and desperate to tweet he will go out of his way to alienate people? Not about to find out with my $$ At the most extreme if the political winds ever shift now I know my money is being custodied by someone who will have strained relations with the gov. For roughly the past decade bank CEOs have been studiously neutral in public comms (despite yes lobbying for certain outcomes) and I expect same from CB. It’s stupid and unnecessary. Focus on your JOB. Every stupid tweet about the woke media or even “the blueberries are huge now, why is no one talking about this” (people are talking about this actually) is a distraction and makes me lose confidence in the company.

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ok yeah you meant it in a figurative way... your concern makes sense! i always get uncomfortable when folks ask public figures to limit what they can express. seems anti-human. cuz it's not necessarily the case that these accounts merely represent the corporate roles they currently hold and not the full human whose real name us on it. but it's also a complex issue that's more general and broader than the barmstrong case that we as a culture haven't grappled with properly yet. also, i'm not sure why we'd want and expect them to adopt the same public disposition as banks? they're different in so many ways and represent something so counter, not the least of which is an anti-establishment industry. banks are and have always been the favorite child of the financial system. they write the rules, no reason for their CEOs to speak like Brian. asking someone to be like someone else and not break the mold also rubs me the wrong way. https://warpcast.com/dwayne/0x0b3c0b29

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I want him to act professional. I don’t want a non conformist as the custodian of my money. I don’t care about his whole self and do not want him to bring that to work. As far as I am concerned his Twitter is to communicate updates about Coinbase and make me feel good about being a customer, not chastise me for media choices.

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sure, that's your preference, based on your personal risk tolerance. i hear that. i'm voicing more about what's the (digital) culture that's good for humanity broadly going forward. it's a lot more multivariate which is why i acknowledged it's complex. two different contexts :) conservation vs change also map well. the context of change also feels salient rn because we're in the midst of massive structural changes of all kinds around this election. "strike while the iron's hot" if that necessarily means i'm not gonna be comfortable using coinbase as a bank, that's a miniscule inconvenience for what's at stake. there's tons of other options to park my money. cb is well positioned to help move the needle in a better direction. they'll make mistakes ofc or even strategic tradeoffs that look like mistakes (autism capital? dafuq?)

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I am a normal person and this is a normal expectation in line with the past decade roughly of executive behavior. I don’t think it helps more people get onchain to alienate them

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This is not a normal industry and was never meant to be. Crypto even being an "industry" is a weird paradox. So normative comparisons are invalid. People don't necessarily feel alienated in this moment in time. Old rules are gone, so should old assumptions. People of all political bgs are now reevaluating media, what it means, and their relationship to it.

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They might be but I don’t need my freaking crypto bank CEO to weigh in on that. Grow up and focus on the coins, the app, etc. Crypto is plagued with a lack of professionalism and it’s part of the many reasons why it’s looked down on and seen as a value extractive joke and a casino by many people. You can’t act unserious and expect serious treatment. I think our fundamental difference is I want crypto to be broadly respected whereas you don’t care as much

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I do want crypto to be broadly respected but not at the expense of core values and a better digital human future. I want the broader crowd to come our direction because we're telling a better, more compelling story, which we've done a poor job of. But this IS possible.

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"Crypto bank CEO" You're being reductionist here to make your point. Coinbase and Armstrong represent a lot more than that. It's all interconnected. You're trying to draw these neat straight lines between things in a complex world where that's just not how things work. Bank > Crypto > Money > Capitalism > Freedom You have to consider and climb this entire chain of abstraction to look at the full picture of what's going on Crypto is looked down upon for many reasons. Lack of professionalism may be one of them. But what's "professional" is extremely contextual. I don't blanket accept the premise that he's being "unprofessional" here. This can be perceived as authentic, which is arguably the trait that everyone admires and looks UP TO in this climate where everything is fake. You think people don't respect crypto bank's CEOs? Wait till you find out what they think of (and have always thought of) CEOs of big banks with their perfectly manicured faceless comms People want more authenticity now which is good

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