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It looks like basic currency – a popular North American digital currency exchange office – that simply can't take a break. After getting sued by customers and then having to engage in a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s office, the trading platform has announced it’s having to cut another 1,000 jobs to make ends meet.
Coexisting forced to separate with more personnel.
Cryptographic space is in pretty bad shape. In spite of showing signs of rapid upturn (Bitcoin is about to hit $18k again), The world's major digital coins are still in difficult stages, and trades such as coins are hard hit. Trouble initially began in the middle of 2022 when COINBASE announced it was letting go of approximately 18 percent of its staff.
It was to help cope with a lack of liquidity and volatility that the space had known for several months. That's too bad because 2022 had to be the year of hiring, one in which companies as coinbase have increased their staff by three times as much as they were... at least that was the purpose.
Unfortunately, the company had to put a hiring freeze in place and then outright engage in the letting go of employees to deal with the ailing industry. Now it seems that the currency is hitting even stronger, and 1,000 more people are likely to hit the boards very soon.
In a recent interview, Brian Armstrong, the company's chief executive officer, said:
When we looked at our 2023 scenarios, it became clear that we should cut back on spending to increase our chances of getting it right in each scenario. Although it is always difficult to separate from our colleagues, there was no way to cut our spending substantially enough without taking into account the changes in the workforce.
At present, the currency base has two concerns. First, the “contagion” as Armstrong puts it in his interview being caused by the collapse of the now fallen digital currency exchange FTX, which has caused countless ripples in the space. Armstrong does not believe that the fear and terror of FTX is far from over.
Second, He says that the money base has often focused on having a big personal in the past as a "success indicator." clearly, with market conditions preventing additional employment, it can't be a deciding factor anymore.
The Company Can Still Do Well
Despite this rough patch, Wall Street issued a report claiming it expects the company to flourish this year. The document had the following wording:
We believe that [Coinbase] is well placed to survive and succeed in a challenging neighbourhood, where the relevance of most of its peers/competitors appears to be diminishing. The essence of today's announcement is to adjust the company's current cost base to significantly reduce its operating volumes, protecting its $5 billion cash position.
