Brian Armstrong is the chief executive officer of Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange. In a post on X on November 2 2026 he marked Bitcoin reaching its eighteenth anniversary and announced that Coinbase had placed its 18,000th Bitcoin into its treasury investment holdings. The statement highlights Coinbase's continued confidence in Bitcoin as a long term store of value and signals that the firm is further aligning its balance sheet with the digital asset it supports for customers. By publicly sharing the size of its Bitcoin treasury Armstrong aims to reassure investors and regulators that the exchange maintains a substantial stake in the network it facilitates.

“Happy 18th birthday to Bitcoin! We (Coinbase) recently added our 18,000th Bitcoin to our treasury investment holdings.”

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) on X · X ↗

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