The cryptocurrency exchange's CEO, Brian Armstrong, took another hammer-blow from the New York Times’ Nathaniel Popper on Dec. 29, with an article alleging the firm not only paid black and female employees less than their male counterparts, it did so at levels far worse than is typical in Silicon Valley.
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At Coinbase, black employees faced ‘constant condescension’ and were described as ‘less capable’: report
A day after Coinbase attempted to preempt a New York Times article about the company’s culture, 23 current and former workers paint a picture of discrimination and mistreatment
Nathaniel Popper, a cryptocurrency and technology reporter at the Gray Lady, has written a damning exposé that claims the exchange “has long struggled with its management of black employees.” The title of his investigation? “Tokenized.”
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Coinbase denies upcoming New York Times racial discrimination allegations
The U.S. exchange warns a story about disgruntled black employees is coming in the wake of Brian Armstrong’s controversial “apolitical’ stand over Black Lives Matter
The major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is bracing for another wave of criticism in the wake of CEO Brian Armstrong’s controversial stand against corporate support of political issues like the Black Lives Matter movement. In a Nov. 25 blog post, Coinbase warned employees that an article that will be published on Sunday by the New York Times alleging racial discrimination inside the firm.
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey: Bitcoin is inherently political
In criticizing Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s refusal to endorse BLM, Jack Dorsey argues that political activism is in crypto’s DNA
Jack Dorsey suggested in a tweet sent on Sept. 30 that Bitcoin cannot be separated from political activism, which makes Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s decision to not take a position on the Black Lives Matter movement pointless.
