{"id":72910,"date":"2026-02-18T07:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72910"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:17:04","slug":"wall-street-unable-to-understand-coinbase-brian-armstrong-says-crypto-platform-is-also-underestimated-the-laggards-are-going-to-be-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72910","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Unable To Understand Coinbase? Brian Armstrong Says Crypto Platform Is Also Underestimated: &#8216;The Laggards Are Going To Be Left Behind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>)\u00a0CEO\u00a0<strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong> acknowledged on Tuesday that the company is \u201cmisunderstood\u201d on Wall Street, stating that some traditional finance players have not been able to stomach the cryptocurrency \u201cdisruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is TradFi Skeptical Of Crypto?<\/h2>\n<p>In an X post, Armstrong said that while one section has been \u201cleaning\u201d and \u201cembracing\u201d cryptocurrency, the other half has been \u201cresisting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think some of these people are just inherently skeptical of crypto because of incentives \u2013 their whole careers have been built in the traditional financial system,\u201d the cryptocurrency mogul argued. \u201cThey&#8217;re skeptical because it feels like a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing <strong>Uber Technologies Inc.<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"UBER\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/UBER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/UBER\">UBER<\/a>) as an example, Armstrong said taxi companies would naturally view the ridesharing model unfavorably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrypto is directly disrupting Wall Street, so it makes sense that some on Wall Street would misunderstand crypto\/Coinbase,\u201d he said. \u201cThe laggards are going to be left behind.\u201d<\/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\">&#8220;Why is Coinbase always misunderstood or under-appreciated by Wall Street?&#8221; \u2013 I got asked &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50677952\/wall-street-unable-to-understand-coinbase-brian-armstrong-says-crypto-platform-is-also-unde?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Wall\" street unable to understand coinbase brian armstrong says crypto platform is also underestimated: laggards are going be left behind>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase Global Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:COIN)\u00a0CEO\u00a0Brian Armstrong acknowledged on Tuesday that the company is \u201cmisunderstood\u201d on Wall Street, stating that some traditional finance players have not been able to stomach the cryptocurrency \u201cdisruption.\u201d Is TradFi Skeptical Of Crypto? In an X post, Armstrong said that while one section has been \u201cleaning\u201d and \u201cembracing\u201d cryptocurrency, the other half has [&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-72910","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\/72910","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=72910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}