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Chloe Taylor

Coinbase CEO says SEC asked exchange to delist all crypto but Bitcoin

Brian Armstrong (Credit: Patrick T. Fallon—AFP/Getty Images)

Coinbase's CEO said a demand from U.S. officials to cease trading all assets except Bitcoin would have spelled the end of the cryptocurrency industry as we know it.

In an interview published Monday by the Financial Times, Brian Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, revealed the SEC suggested his company make the change while the agency prepared to sue the firm for allegedly operating as an unregistered broker.

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