{"id":40286,"date":"2025-08-04T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40286"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:16:38","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-defends-uk-ad-ban-if-you-cant-say-it-then-there-must-be-a-kernel-of-truth-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40286","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Defends UK-Ad Ban: &#8216;If You Can&#8217;t Say It, Then There Must Be A Kernel Of Truth In It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong>, CEO of\u00a0cryptocurrency exchange <strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/COIN#NASDAQ\">COIN<\/a>), responded on Sunday to the ban of the company\u2019s alleged derogatory advertisement in the UK, saying that it was not meant to be a political statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Armstrong took to X to express his views on the ban, stating, \u201cIf you can&#8217;t say it, then there must be a kernel of truth in it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Armstrong further added that the advertisement was not intended as a political statement, but rather a critique of the traditional financial system and an endorsement of the potential of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people in the UK who still think of crypto as some kind of gambling product (a very outdated view), and have completely missed the potential of crypto, which is to update and improve the financial system for the benefit of everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our ad which got banned in the UK by the TV networks has sparked &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/08\/46821810\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-defends-uk-ad-ban-if-you-cant-say-it-then-there-must-be-a-kernel-of-truth-in-\" alt=\"Coinbase\" ceo brian armstrong defends uk-ad ban: you can say it then there must be a kernel of truth in>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Armstrong, CEO of\u00a0cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:COIN), responded on Sunday to the ban of the company\u2019s alleged derogatory advertisement in the UK, saying that it was not meant to be a political statement. What Happened: Armstrong took to X to express his views on the ban, stating, \u201cIf you can&#8217;t say it, then there [&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-40286","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\/40286","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=40286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}