{"id":659507,"date":"2026-09-19T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=848793"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:20:18","slug":"brian-armstrong-says-wsj-will-blame-coinbase-for-claritys-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/brian-armstrong-says-wsj-will-blame-coinbase-for-claritys-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Armstrong Says WSJ Will Blame Coinbase for CLARITY\u2019s Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/brian-armstrong-says-wsj-will-blame-coinbase-for-claritys-collapse-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Logo of Coinbase on one side and WSJ on the other\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Wall Street Journal is preparing a story blaming him for the CLARITY Act&#8217;s Senate defeat, and he went public with his defense before it ran. A Pre-Emptive Strike Armstrong did not wait for the alleged article to come out; instead, he took to X and aired his thoughts, stating: [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Wall Street Journal is preparing a story blaming him for the CLARITY Act&#8217;s Senate defeat, and he went public with his defense before it ran. A Pre-Emptive Strike Armstrong did not wait for the alleged article to come out; instead, he took to X and aired his thoughts, stating: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-659507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}