Coinbase CEO invites DC residents over for ice cream and crypto talk

Brian Armstrong, the main enforcement serviceman of United States-based cryptocurrency steadfast Coinbase, is looking for lawmakers and regulators to sermon regulatory clarity successful the crypto space.

In a Feb. 13 tweet, Armstrong put a telephone retired for anyone with entree to the Dirksen Senate Office successful Washington, D.C. to conscionable him astatine the building’s snack barroom and “chat astir crypto”. According to the Coinbase CEO, helium was looking for “low sweetener options” amid the enactment of brushed service crystal pick and toppings.

"’I'm successful Washington D.C. and had a gathering canceled," said Armstrong. "If anyone wants to travel chat astir crypto and however we get crypto authorities + regulatory clarity this year."

Brian Armstrong astatine the Dirksen Senate Office Building connected Feb. 13. Source: Twitter

Armstrong’s beingness successful D.C. followed the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing a $30-million settlement with Kraken connected Feb. 9, successful which the steadfast agreed to unopen down its staking programme for U.S. users. The Coinbase CEO argued successful a Twitter thread responding to rumors that eliminating staking would beryllium a “terrible way for the U.S.” On Feb. 12, helium released a connection saying Coinbase would support staking “in tribunal if needed”.

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The Coinbase CEO’s telephone to Senators, House Representatives, and different D.C. residents preceded U.S. lawmakers with the Senate Banking Committee preparing to clasp a hearing connected Feb. 14 exploring the interaction of a crypto marketplace crash. Representative Maxine Waters, ranking subordinate of the House Financial Services Committee, has besides called connected the committee’s enactment to clasp different proceeding connected the illness of FTX successful which erstwhile CEO Sam Bankman-Fried could testify.