Coinbase's big election bet is about to be tested

In this articleCOINwatch nowWASHINGTON — In the first few years after founding Coinbase, CEO Brian Armstrong shied away from Washington, D.C. But as his ambitions for his crypto exchange scaled, so too did his need to curry favor on Capitol Hill."About five or six years ago, we realized that crypto was getting big enough that we needed to go really engage actively in a policy effort, so I started coming out to D.C.," Armstrong, who started Coinbase in 2012, told CNBC in September, following a day of meeting ...