Bits + Bips: Could a Base Token Be Coinbase's Key to a Super App? - Ep. 905
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I think from the perspective of base specifically, if it doesn't offer governance, if it doesn't really give you anything, then what's what's the point to owning a token? So so I think they're gonna need to answer that question. But Coinbase is likely to be a lot less careful than they were before in branching out and looking at other ways to expand their footprint given the change in the administration. You know, Brian Armstrong spent a lot of effort on cultivating that. I think now is the time he's gonna try to reap the the benefits of what he's owed.
I think people around the dinner table are feeling pain around inflation, but the the amount of apocalyptic predictions that were made in the spring by leading economists about how all this would cripple the American economy and we would be in, you know, death throes of supply chain dislocations and, you know, there'd be urban and riots. It just didn't come to fruition.
Welcome to another episode of Bits and Bips, exploring how crypto and macro collide one basis point at a time. A lot to discuss today. We're gonna spend quite a bit of time talking about the new base token. Frankly, I'm not sure we've ever speculated so much about something that we know so little about, but, that is the world that we live in, and that's not gonna keep us from speculating wildly. So let's let's let's go ahead.
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And, we have two special guests today. Again, first, we have Nick Carey, the unshackled lord of blockchain.com. So so welcome, Nick.
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