{"id":39725,"date":"2025-07-31T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39725"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:46:41","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-recalls-how-us-immigration-woes-helped-spark-ethereums-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39725","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Recalls How US Immigration Woes Helped Spark Ethereum&#8217;s Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong>, CEO of\u00a0<strong>Coinbase<\/strong>, recalled an old encounter with <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) co-founder <strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong> and the inefficiencies of the U.S. immigration system that contributed to the blockchain\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0In an X post on Wednesday, Armstrong shared a personal anecdote about meeting Buterin in 2013 at a <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) conference in San Jose. This was when Buterin was involved with <strong>Bitcoin Magazine<\/strong>, a publication he co-founded.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong said he invited Buterin to visit Coinbase&#8217;s office in San Francisco, where the team was impressed by his work and tried to hire him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut due to a series of circumstances, including him not being able to get a work visa in the U.S., it didn\u2019t work out, and he had to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46750404\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-recalls-how-us-immigration-woes-helped-spark-ethereums-creatio\" alt=\"Coinbase\" ceo brian armstrong recalls how us immigration woes helped spark ethereum creation>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Armstrong, CEO of\u00a0Coinbase, recalled an old encounter with Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the inefficiencies of the U.S. immigration system that contributed to the blockchain\u2019s creation. What Happened:\u00a0In an X post on Wednesday, Armstrong shared a personal anecdote about meeting Buterin in 2013 at a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) conference in San Jose. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-39725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}