Next Tuesday 25th May, our Senior Analyst @DanLane will be interviewing Marcus Hughes, Managing Director, Europe and General Counsel, International at Coinbase.
In the meantime, check out our Analyst David Kimberley’s rundown on Coinbase shortly before its direct listing.
Drop your questions for Marcus on the thread below by end of day Friday 21st May and we’ll line up as many of them as we can for the video recording of the interview the next day.
We’ll share the video later next week!
UPDATE: Thanks for all your questions!
Here’s Dan exclusive interview with Marcus for you to watch now:
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We’ve seen a significant amount of interest from, and investment by institutional capital in the cryptocurrency space over the last 12-18 months (SBI’s purchase of C2B2 is a stand out for me) which points towards an overall shift in sentiment towards the asset class, however, there seems to be much uncertainty, particularly from a reg risk standpoint.
What risks to the success of the asset class do you foresee and what do you think can be done to mitigate them?
And as a follow up how are you thinking about these risks vis-a-vis Coinbase?
What do you forecast in terms of adoption of crypto in actual beneficial use cases, as opposed to mainly speculative stores of value?
And how will Coinbase be involved in the more use cases aspects of crypto as opposed to just facilitating exchange, if at all? I am comparing to companies like Silvergate Capital which provide more of the crypto commerce infrastructure as opposed to just mainly buying and selling crypto.
Are there plans to move greater into the banking space, I know they have been trialling the Coinbase debit card for some time now in the UK but what’s the overall plan in this regard?
I have a very speculative amount in Shiba Inu via Cryto.com, are there plans to list this on the Coinbase exchange?
How do you plan to diversify away from a predominantly trading fee based revenue model? What other lines of business / products are you planning to roll out?
Hi, what are Coinbase doing so that Uk customer don’t get caught out by capital gains taxes? Are there any plans that this can be calculated automatically on your platform and paid when making any withdrawals.
What does the future hold for Coinbase revenue generating capabilities, since 96% of its revenue / profit comes from platform fees? In other words, how is your projection for future growth now with crypto going mainstream with the potential of MANY competitors with lower / no fees?
Markets go up and down but building customer numbers is part of success.
Can you tell us about the challenges and solutions you are adopting in Europe to on board new customers quickly and efficiently while meeting KYC and AML requirements please?
It is recognised that the crypto space has shown extreme volatility at times and during these short periods of high percentage swings it can be frustrating if the trading platform is suddenly unavailable. What are you doing to build a system that can cope with these spikes in user activities so that it’s possible to guarantee availability at all times (the crypto world never sleeps). More subscribers would be drawn to Coinbase with this knowledge, especially during a Bitcoin bull run peak where every second counts.
