Speaker
Brian Armstrong
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1 episodes
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1
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AI agents have already executed approximately 100 million transactions and transferred about $50 million in value through Coinbase's self-custodial wallets.
NewLimit, co-founded by Brian Armstrong, raised $435 million to advance epigenetic reprogramming toward human age reversal, with its first drug candidate entering clinical trials next year.
The early coins associated with Satoshi Nakamoto represent approximately 5–10% of all Bitcoin and are the most vulnerable to a future quantum computing attack.
A Pew Research study found that approximately 80% of Americans support embryo gene editing for disease prevention, while only about 20% support editing for enhancement.
USDC stablecoin transfers settle in under one second anywhere in the world for less than one cent, making stablecoins vastly superior to legacy banking infrastructure for AI agent payments.
Brian Armstrong noted that open-source AI models are approximately 99% cheaper for inference than frontier proprietary models, threatening the long-term monetization of those models.
Coinbase currently provides cryptocurrency services to approximately 140 government agencies at federal, state, and local levels.
NewLimit has demonstrated successful epigenetic reprogramming of human cells and plans to send its first drug candidate into clinical trials in 2027.
Bitcoin is the new digital gold. But the real story is what happens when AI agents — not humans — become the dominant economic actors. Armstrong predicts stablecoin rails will be the default payment layer for the agentic economy, which will eventually dwarf the human economy.
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