let us discuss this with brian armstrong. brian, welcome to the show. i want to start your actually not with the volumes, but i want to give you the chance. you are flying out to d.c. and hosting a lot of congress over at a summit at coinbase -- that coinbase is spearheading. how much do you see your presence in washington today? why is it so important for you and others to be there? >> we are hosting an event tomorrow called update the system event and we are inviting a bunch of policymakers, members of congress, the goal is to talk about all of the different use cases of crypto that are emerging. there is this trope that is out there that crypto does not have any use case and we could not -- and i could not be farther from the truth. crypto is a new form of sound money, it is returning to almost like a new gold standard that is digital. in this time of high inflation, i think people are interested in that. it is a nice check and balance that will help america with any issues there. it is digitizing the dollar and making payments fast, cheap, and globa

you are in line with bitcoin as a whole, you get the alpha generated from bitcoin, your betting on brianong and the company's ability to expand their crypto offerings and make money off of retail traders trading the stock or trading those assets on the platform and that has been one of the device when you look at this. it is down 25% from its all-time high in 2021. you are seeing bitcoin making record highs, look at it and zoom out a bit, coinbase is still underperforming broadly speaking. sonali: surpassing as a direct listing price, if you think there could be an argument to be made here that in addition to betting on the larger cryptocurrencies with coinbase, your betting on defy? >> that is the big argument and when you look at coinbase and the number of companies fitting into the ecosystem, has been the long pitch of blockchain, how each of these players can continue to grow and expand their offerings. and profit off of that. that is one of the cases in coinbase, as everyone has been pounding the table with that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could be due for a correction and ob

initially his boss brian armstrong let it slide. >> chalked it up to hey he was taking a day off unscheduled day off. i didn't think too much about it. and then the following day which was the wednesday again scheduled to come in no call, no show and then i got worried. >> word spread and soon eric's sisters and the rest of their close knit family were trying to find him. >> no one had heard from him. >> now you're really worried. >> i'm really worried. >> cynthia took a deep breath and called 911. police were dispatched to check out eric's apartment in silver spring, maryland. his family raced to meet them. eric somuah a man about town who lived life at full throttle had seemingly fallen off the map. what had happened to him? coming up, an unanswered knock and lots of questions. >> we were all in shock. we were just shocked. >> i said there's no way. there's no way. >> when dateline continues. n d try air wick vibrant, with 2x more natural essential oils for up to 120 days of amazing fragrance per dual pack. now that's a breath of fresh air wick. at oofos, we don't make footwear. we make sh