Brian Armstrong: "Listing of government cryptocurrencies on Coinbase is quite possible" – Bits Media

During a Q&A session on the Reddit forum, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told, that the listing of state digital currencies on the site is quite possible.

Reddit users asked Brian Armstrong (Brian Armstrong), how full, by His opinion, Cryptocurrency payments will be supported by Internet services, And can state digital currencies contribute to this. Coinbase CEO noted, that recently "state cryptocurrencies have become an important trend".

“I am more interested in decentralized cryptocurrencies, but, think, The potential of state digital currencies is very large and almost every major country is thinking about developing such a project. We are not fans of any particular cryptocurrency, Therefore, we will support as familiar, so national digital currencies. As centralized stablecoins and state cryptocurrencies, and decentralized, Such as DAI. Main, So that they meet our listing standards ", - said Armstrong.

As for the massive use of cryptocurrency payments, then Coinbase CEO reminded the lack of throughput in popular blockchains and that, that the developers make maximum efforts to solve this problem.

However, there are also privacy issues - after all, transactions in most blockchains are publicly displayed and this is far from always good for users. You also need to provide more personified addresses of cryptocurrency wallets - the ability to set a simple name for the wallet instead of a long sequence of letters and numbers.

Recall, that Coinbase is preparing for direct listing on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Exit to the exchange should take place in April of this year - on the NASDAQ will be placed 115 Million shares of the site.