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"to protest the new no-politics policy that the company's CEO, Brian Armstrong, put out in September"

There's nothing more central to Coinbase's mission than securing the $30b worth of cryptoassets that they custody.

So it's oddly appropriate if more than half of the team responsible for the most critical part of their mission resigned to protest Armstrong's new "mission focused" policies.

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I find it odd from the opposite perspective. Why did the most clearly mission critical team in the company find social issues more appropriate at work than their job at hand? Surely if you could pick a single team who's work area doesn't have any relation to politics, it would be this one?

Turns out if management ignores what high-talent employees think is important, those high-talent employees just switch to an employer that doesn't ignore them.

The free market at its best.

If you've devoted yourself to a novel anarchist monetary project, I would imagine you might see your job as political regardless of which aspect you worked on.

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