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February 15, 2018 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has launched Coinbbase Commerce, a payments platform that allows merchants to accept digital currency anywhere, anytime. Recently Stripe, a popular payments processor, announced it would stop accepting Bitcoin as payments so Coinbases announcement is timely…. Read More

February 12, 2018 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, tweeted out last week that certain credit card issuers were blocking transactions on its exchange. These bank based cards included; JPM Chase, Bank of America, Citi and Capital One. So what’s up with that? Well,… Read More

February 8, 2018 @ 1:55 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinbase has launched the Coinbase Open Source Fund from which we’ll be donating $2500 each month to open source projects. According to its blog, Coinbase also began “as a humble Rails project” and has relied  on open source software to build its systems and products. “As… Read More

February 2, 2018 @ 1:17 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinbase, co-founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, provides support for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin in 32 countries, with over 10 million customers served and over $50B in digital currency exchanged. Now the six year-old digital wallet and crypto-exchange Coinbase has reportedly crossed $1 billion in revenue… Read More

January 5, 2018 @ 3:42 pm By Joshua Klayman  |  

Oh the excitement!  Oh the frustration! Each day, more and more people are becoming aware of digital tokens generally, and an ever increasing number of them have begun the journey into purchasing some of those tokens.  But a lack of mechanical technological know-how may leave… Read More

December 10, 2017 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase had probably its biggest week ever as the price of Bitcoin shot through the roof last week. While the price of Bitcoin has settled down a bit at around $16,000 (for now), the the rapid rise of BTC was joined by extreme volatility as… Read More

December 7, 2017 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The rapid rise in the price of Bitcoin has caused an increase in interest in Coinbase – one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets in the world. Having exchanged over $50 billion in crypto – you would think the tech stack could keep up…. Read More

August 11, 2017 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital wallet and crypto-exchange Coinbase has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by well known VCs including IVP plus Spark Capital, Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, Section 32 and Draper Associates. Having now exchanged over $25 billion in digital coin, Coinbase is becoming… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 10:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“USAA’s recent entrance into the bitcoin space may have been driven, in part, by interest in the technology among its own membership,” reported Stan Higgens from CoinDesk.  “The Fortune 500 financial services company, based in Texas, was among a diverse group of investors that took part in… Read More