{"id":99074,"date":"2026-06-07T00:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99074"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:18:03","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-defends-bitcoin-as-the-price-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99074","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Defends Bitcoin as the Price Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and most altcoins like <strong>Ethereum <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), <strong>Cardano <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ADA-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ADA\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ada\/usd\">ADA<\/a>), and <strong>Ripple <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) prices have crashed, erasing over $2 trillion dollars in value in the past two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crypto market crash intensified this week, with Bitcoin moving slightly below the key support of $60,000. Ethereum dropped to $1,500, while XRP is approaching the important support level at $1.0.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brian Armstrong Defends Bitcoin and Crypto<\/h2>\n<p>Brian Armstrong, the CEO of <strong>Coinbase <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) is defending Bitcoin. In an X post, he noted that the crypto industry was thriving despite the ongoing crypto market crash. He pointed to the ongoing boom in the derivatives, stablecoins, and prediction markets.<\/p>\n<p>For example, data compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/perps\">DeFi Llama shows<\/a> that perpetual exchange networks like Hyperliquid and Aster handled over $2.37 trillion in the first quarter and $1.37 trillion this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More data shows that the volume in the prediction markets surged to $34.7 billion in Q1, and has jumped to $24.6 billion in the current one. This growth will accelerate in the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53048013\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-defends-bitcoin-as-the-price-crashes?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Coinbase\" ceo brian armstrong defends bitcoin as the price crashes>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and most altcoins like Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA), and Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) prices have crashed, erasing over $2 trillion dollars in value in the past two years.\u00a0 The crypto market crash intensified this week, with Bitcoin moving slightly below the key support of $60,000. Ethereum dropped to $1,500, while XRP [&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-99074","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\/99074","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=99074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}