Democratizing the Crypto Economy with Manish Gupta, EVP of Engineering at Coinbase
[00:00] Intro [06:57] How blockchain empowers individuals [10:12] Crypto will become a new financial system [14:04] Creating systems so developers can build [16:19] Coinbase’s democratizing potential [20:49] Fixing site capacity issues [28:37] Coinbase is leaning into decentralized finance [33:38] Gupta’s engineering passion [36:43] Staffing at Coinbase [41:04] Value of different perspectives There’s an obvious tension in the crypto world between decentralization and centralization. Of course, Bitcoin was a reaction against the power of the entrenched banking systems and a move toward ind…