Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed back against the Governor of the Bank of France during a World Economic Forum panel on January 21 after the central banker expressed skepticism about Bitcoin by referring to its “private issuers.” François Villeroy de Galhau stated he trusts independent central banks with democratic mandates more than what he called private issuers of Bitcoin, according to a video posted on X by Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson. Armstrong responded that Bitcoin is a decentralized prot ...