Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong says that company leaders are increasingly opting to avoid mainstream journalists by speaking directly to audiences on unmediated social media platforms. “Our customers are on YouTube/podcasts/social media — not reading mainstream media,” asserted Armstrong in a May 22 Twitter thread, adding that companies are now “able to control their own distribution channels” in the current media landscape. Publishing to our own blog/twitter/YouTube lets us say what is on our mind and talk to our customers — not get one quote in an otherwise balanced (or sometimes outright mean/snarky) article. Crypto exchange CEO avoids traditional media …

Bruce Fenton is a well-known Bitcoin activist in the crypto community. The Managing Director and founder of Atlantic Financial Inc. and Boston Gulf Advisors Group, more recently Bruce has been voted into the Bitcoin Foundation as executive director. He has big plans to revamp the foundation and bring some fiscal change. Cointelegraph previously briefly discussed with Bruce the realities of issues such as Ben Lawsky and the BitLicense scheme, but this time around we had a chance to have a more in-depth look at how Bruce aims to solidify the Bitcoin Foundation itself. Cointelegraph: Can you give our readers a …