Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong emerges as Wall Street’s chief crypto antagonist as his push to build a parallel digital-asset financial system sparks open clashes with JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and other banking titans over the future of finance.

haha, "Brian Armstrong, CEO of the biggest U.S. crypto company, was having coffee with former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week when JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon cut in. “You are full of s—,” said Dimon, a longtime crypto skeptic who previously called bitcoin a fraud, his index finger pointed squarely at Armstrong’s face. Dimon, in a nutshell, told the Coinbase CEO to stop lying on TV, according to people familiar with the conversation. ​In appearances on business-television programs earlier that week, Armstrong had accused banks of trying to sabotage legislation that would set a new regulatory framework for digital assets. The confrontation wasn’t quite in line with the annual forum’s mission to foster cooperation among global leaders. "

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