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Ben Weiss

Coinbase CEO plans to hire 1,000 U.S. workers, saying Trump ‘breathed life back" into industry

Brian Armstrong speaks at the WEF conference in Davos. (Credit: Stefan Wermuth—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The U.S.’s most prominent crypto exchange plans to hire about 1,000 more employees in 2025, Brian Armstrong, the cofounder and CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy; and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, founders of the crypto exchange Gemini.

The summit was closed-door, but Trump and his attendees did make a brief public appearance on Friday afternoon, when he called for Congress to pass crypto legislation before August. “I promised to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world and the crypto capital of the planet, and we’re taking historic action to deliver on that promise,” Trump said.

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