Kraken CEO on Why the Bitcoin Exchange Left San Francisco: City Has ‘Deteriorated’
In April, Jesse Powell shut down Kraken’s San Francisco HQ. On the new gm podcast, he talked more about why—and lampooned the city’s progressive D.A.
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