@underwaterwux I have been responsible for trading products here for ~1 month, I would request a little more time to make the apps good before judgement, there is a lot of stuff to do and not possible to change everything overnight

I took over the baseapp a few days ago yeah (as well as trading products in Coinbase - the Coinbase app, Advanced trading, etc). I don’t run Base chain. I think that typically CB has been a little bit in an ivory tower and a little bit distant from users, particularly crypto natives. I don’t think I will be able to fix that in a week, or maybe even a month. I can try and capture the voice of ppl onchain more and try and align ppl building things more closely w users. Obviously CB/Base has burned a lot of user goodwill w those users thru some unforced errors, including today. Obviously I could simply not do any of these things and have a nice life instead. Lots of ppl, including og base supporters/trenchers, rly hate base rn - throwing myself into the middle of a hatred pile-on is clearly not the most optimal life choice. I am aware I am setting myself up to be blamed by association. So, I wouldn’t be doing this if I thought it were impossible. I’m going to try and ship stuff that ppl like to use. Maybe ppl will hate what I do w the baseapp too, we will see how it goes.

I decided rather than chilling to instead make my life incredibly stressful and busy so now i am responsible for trading products at Coinbase (CB app / Pro / Baseapp / etc). I cant explain why I did this except I like the opportunity to make something actually good more than I like playing Factorio. So ye maybe I’m an idiot, let’s find out

Yes obviously, that was the plan all along, I just thought it would be a funny way to announce the acquisition I don’t think anyone believes Coinbase really paid $25m for 8 episodes of a defunct podcast but if they do think that’s reasonable then, well, I have a podcast to sell them