Coinbase gets NYDFS green light to offer Ethereum and Litecoin trades
Finextra
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March 23, 2017
Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo today announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has approved the application of Coinbase, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc., to offer Ethereum and Litecoin for New York customers.
Popular Bitcoin Wallet & Exchange Coinbase Hits 6 Million Users
Cryptocoin News
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March 6, 2017
Coinbase, the prominent San-Francisco based bitcoin and ethereum wallet provider and platform founded in 2012, has recently hit 6 million users, a new milestone for the company. Coinbase claims to have over 13 million wallets, serving 45,000 different merchants and 9,000 developer apps.
Why Coinbase’s Cofounder Is Moving On
Fortune
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Jan. 21, 2017
Five years after co-founding Coinbase, one of the most well-funded Bitcoin ventures, Fred Ehrsam has decided to leave the company.
Behind the Redesign and Reinvention of Coinbase
Fortune
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Oct. 19, 2016
Despite Bitcoin’s failure to achieve its initial promise as quickly as early enthusiasts expected, Coinbase, a digital money startup based in San Francisco, has continued to chug along, attempting to find its footing in a market defined less by everyday consumers than by speculators and aficionados.
Amazon-Owned Twitch Re-adds Bitcoin Payments Using Coinbase
The CoinTelegraph
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Aug. 21, 2016
Twitch, an Amazon-owned live streaming video platform which integrated Bitcoin back in August 2014, has began to offer Bitcoin as a payment option again using the Coinbase payment processing gateway since August 21, 2016.
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Is Focused on Merchants
DCEBrief
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Aug. 2, 2016
Bitcoin service provider and digital currency exchange Coinbase has taken the lead on this and has recently announced a range of additions to their service specifically aimed at providing merchants the tools they need to make accepting bitcoin more attractive.
Coinbase is adding support for Ethereum
TechCrunch
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July 21, 2016
The writing was on the wall for some time. In May, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam published a post on Coinbase’s blog titled Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency. Around the same time, Coinbase added support for Ethereum trading to GDAX, its online professional cryptocurrency exchange.
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Adds Paypal Support
CCN
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June 24, 2016
Bitcoin wallet and exchange Coinbase has revealed new funding methods – PayPal and credit cards, to further enable digital currency transactions and swaps in its exchange. The support for the two new funding mechanisms is currently in beta.
What Is Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase's Vision, Mission & Strategy?
CryptoCoinNews
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March 23, 2016
Brian Armstrong took to Medium to elaborate upon the Coinbase mission. The 100 person company, Armstrong notes, had grown too large for them to communicate daily with all of their employees, and therefore “we decided to craft a clear vision, mission and strategy for the company.”
USAA teams with Coinbase for Bitcoin
banking technology
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March 21, 2016
The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a financial services group, has partnered with Coinbase to give Bitcoin usage a timely boost. Late last year, USAA launched a Coinbase pilot program, which allowed select USAA employees and members to view their Coinbase accounts on the USAA website and mobile app.
Coinbase Initiaties Bitcoin Purchase through US Debit Cards
CryptoCoinNews
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March 3, 2016
Coinbase has announced the beta launch of a new feature that will facilitate the purchase of bitcoin(s) instantly with US-based debit cards. The feature is already available for European users of Coinbase who have the means to buy the cryptocurrency through credit and debit cards.
Coinbase Integrates Bitcoin Classic
CoinSpeaker
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Feb. 19, 2016
The San Francisco-based digital currency exchange, Coinbase, has informed that it is going to incorporate Bitcoin Classic nodes. The news was revealed by the company’s CEO Brian Armstrong through his Twitter account.
How to Use Bitcoin for Uber
CryptoCoinNews
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Feb. 6, 2016
At the end of 2015, for the first time ever, it became possible to ride Uber for Bitcoin. This was made possible with Coinbase’s Shift Card. The Shift Card allows you to spend bitcoins like regular debit or credit. It costs $10 to receive, with fees similar to a regular debit card.
Coinbase: International Users Became Majority in 2015
Finance Magnates
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Jan. 3, 2016
One of the more notable highlights is its successful expansion beyond the US. Coinbase moved into Europe not much more than a year ago. Now, the company reports, the majority of its users reside outside of the US. The proportion of international users grew from 44% to 51% during 2015. The fastest growing markets are Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
Coinbase On The ‘Killer App’ Phase of Bitcoin
PYMNTS
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Nov. 13, 2015
The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the future and what their ideal payments system looks like. Here’s what Adam White, Vice President and Product Manager at Coinbase, had to say.
Coinbase Seeking to Expand Bitcoin Services to Latin America
CoinDesk
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Nov. 10, 2015
Coinbase is seeking to expand its bitcoin buying and selling services to new Asian and Latin American markets in 2016. In interview at Money20/20, product manager Adam White indicated that the startup, which has so far raised more than $106m in venture funding, aims to be operational in 40 countries next year, and that these regions would be primary areas of focus.
Coinbase Receives Overwhelming Response for 90-Day USAA Bitcoin Pilot
newsBTC
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Nov. 4, 2015
Just hours after announcing that the Texas-based diversified financial services group USAA has in partnership with Coinbase, launched a pilot that allows a randomly selected, limited group of USAA members to view their bitcoin balance on USAA.com and the USAA mobile app, the Bitcoin wallet and instant exchange company has received an overwhelming number of requests from unselected USAA members. The pilot was initially rolled out to USAA employees in September.
Coinbase Expands to Singapore
TechCrunch
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Sept. 2, 2015
Coinbase has added Singapore to the list of countries where you can buy and sell bitcoin using their platform. This is Coinbase’s first foray into Asia and it will allow users with Singapore Dollars to buy bitcoin.
While Other Companies Leave NY, Coinbase Submits BitLicense Application
Bitcoin Magazine
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Aug. 19, 2015
This week, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin services and wallet providers Coinbase became the 25thcompany to file for a BitLicense, which is expected to cost more than $100,000 in legal and compliance fees, according to Bitstamp Executive Vice President and chief legal officer George Frost
Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet Launched New Version of iOS App
newsBTC
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Aug. 7, 2015
Bitcoin wallet Coinbase has been sharing its latest set of updates on its blog, among which include a new version of its iOS app. This update contained Identity Verification, Instant Exchange, and bug fixes. Aside from that, the company has also been able to expand operations in Romania, allowing the wallet to offer services in 26 countries.
Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase
Medium
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Aug. 5, 2015
Today we’re announcing a change to our stock option program that will have a huge impact on how future Coinbase employees are compensated. We’ve extended the post-termination option exercise window from the standard 90 days to seven years for new employees who join and stay at least two years.
Google Now App Offers Coinbase Support for Android Users
CoinTelegraph
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Jan. 31, 2015
Google has added Coinbase support to their Google Now app, enabling Android users to receive updates about Bitcoin price fluctuations and other information about their Coinbase accounts in a card on their phone.
BitBeat: Coinbase Launches Tip Button
Wall Street Journal
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Nov. 18, 2014
Coinbase is giving micropayments a try. The bitcoin-services provider on Tuesday unveiled its tip button, a product users install on their sites that encourages readers to "tip," to give a tiny amount of money for the material sites are producing.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Shares the Future of Bitcoin
TechCrunch
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Oct. 21, 2014
Right after opening its doors to Europe, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong joined Alex Wilhelm on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe to discuss the future of bitcoin. The conversation covered everything happening right now around bitcoin, from regulatory issues to bitcoin's price downfall, merchant adoption and new innovative bitcoin use cases.
Coinbase Gets Rid of ACH Fee; Coming Soon: 1% Flat Fee and Multi-Sig
CryptoCoinsNews
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Oct. 17, 2014
Coinbase will soon be doing away with their $0.15 ACH fee on all buys and sells. The fifteen cent fee has long been a point of contention and Coinbase is making the move to bear the cost of interfacing with the legacy banking system themselves.
Senate Adviser Jumps to Bitcoin Start-Up Coinbase
New York Times
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Oct. 13, 2014
The Bitcoin start-up Coinbase is bolstering its team as it seeks to deepen its engagement with regulators. The company, one of the most popular digital wallet providers, has hired John Collins, a former adviser to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, as its head of government affairs.
PayPal Announces First Partnerships in Bitcoin Space
Coindesk
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Sept. 24, 2014
PayPal has announced partnerships with the three largest payment processors in the bitcoin space - Bitpay, Coinbase and GoCoin. Though the online e-commerce pioneer stopped short of integrating bitcoin into its digital wallet or payment processing services directly, the move marks PayPal's first formal offering to the bitcoin community.
United Way Becomes Largest Nonprofit to Accept Bitcoin
Coindesk
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Sept. 15, 2014
Nonprofit United Way Way Worldwide announced today that it now accepts donations in bitcoin, becoming the latest charitable institution to adopt the digital currency into its operations. The US-based organization claims to be the largest privately held nonprofit in the world, raising more than $5 billion annually with more than 2.8 million volunteers, 9.7 million donors and community initiatives, and partnerships with such companies and organizations as the National Football League (NFL), Exxon Mobile, and General Electric.
Coinbase Extends Bitcoin Access to International Customers
NYTimes
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Sept. 11, 2014
Coinbase is taking its Bitcoin services to Europe in a move that could help expand the virtual currency's reach. The company, one of the most popular digital wallet providers, said on Wednesday that it was expanding to 13 European countries, including France, Italy and the Netherlands, by allowing those with authorized European bank accounts to buy and sell Bitcoins in exchange for euros.
Coinbase Offers $10 Worth of Bitcoin to AnyPerk Users
newsBTC
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Aug. 1, 2014
Coinbase announces it is partnering with AnyPerk.com, a company that works to provide employee perks to over 2,500 companies that include Salesforce, Groupon, and Etsy, to offer any existing AnyPerk users free access to $10 worth of bitcoin when they sign up with Coinbase.
Coinbase introduces Vault, for storing large sums
GeekSided
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July 23, 2014
Coinbase has introduced Coinbase Vault, a more secure service that allows customers to store Bitcoins without the expertise required to set up cold storage on their own.
Dell integrates Bitcoin payments on consumer, SMB sites in US
ZDNet
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July 18, 2014
Dell announced Friday it has started to accept payments via Bitcoin for products available on Dell.com, including Alienware. Dell said it's accepting the cryptocurrency for consumer and small business shoppers in a pilot that partners the computer giant with the Bitcoin processor Coinbase.
Coinbase Adds New Type of Bitcoin Account, ‘The Vault’
The Wall Street Journal
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July 2, 2014
Coinbase, one of the big bitcoin-services companies, has unveiled a new type of account for storing bitcoins, “the vault.” The new account, which the company describes on its blog, now allows users to have two different kinds of accounts: a “wallet” for day-to-day spending, and a “vault” for long-term storage of their wealth.
Forbes' 30 under 30 Futures Market: Fred Ehrsam, Coinbase
Forbes
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June 18, 2014
Fred Ehrsam | Coinbase - Created a PayPal-esque wallet for Bitcoin. He’s raised $31 million, and Coinbase is now used by 1.3 million consumers and is adding major merchants like Overstock.com, Google and Dish.
CNBC Disruptors in 2014: Coinbase
CNBC
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June 18, 2014
Coinbase, a 2-year-old company, operates an online service that allows users to buy bitcoin, store it in a digital wallet, and pay merchants with it. The San Francisco-based company is among a flurry of start-ups raising venture capital money to support the virtual currency.
Coinbase Tries to Give You a Reason to Buy Stuff With Bitcoin
Re/Code
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June 12, 2014
Coinbase, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed company that helps businesses process bitcoin payments, is trying to make it easy for businesses to give discounts to shoppers who pay in bitcoin. The company is today unveiling a tool that automates the discount, so businesses can check a box to deduct, say, one percent or five percent from every single purchase made in bitcoin.
Coinbase Acquires Kippt Team
NewsBTC
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May 6, 2014
Coinbase announced its acquisition of the Kippt team. Kippt is a startup that focuses on “finding, reading, storing, searching and sharing information on the web.” The move seems to signify an effort to bring cleaner, easy-to-use user interfaces for Bitcoin applications.
Five Companies to Watch from Finovate
American Banker
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May 1, 2014
Coinbase describes itself as the largest bitcoin platform for merchant payment processing. Based in San Francisco, it handles bitcoin payments for 28,000 merchants, and arrived at Finovate with the goal of convincing more retailers to accept the digital currency.
Facebook's Security Director joins Coinbase
TechCrunch
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March 20, 2014
Ryan McGeehan has recently announced on Facebook that he is leaving his role at Facebook as its Director of Security Incident Response, and taking up a security-related role at Coinbase.
Coinbase's Fred Ehrsam says you're thinking about Bitcoin all wrong
PCWorld
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March 11, 2014
Bitcoin was a big topic of conversation at South by Southwest, especially after Newsweek’s cover story on the identity of the mysterious Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. At SXSW, Ehrsam explained why this is irrelevant to the future of Bitcoin. He said he thinks 2014 will see a critical mass of merchants wanting to get into Bitcoin, so now it’s just a matter of time before regular people get on board with the early adopters, miners, libertarians, and geeks.
Coinbase announces bitcoin merchant integration with Overstock.com
Wired
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Jan. 9, 2014
Overstock.com is now accepting payments in bitcoin, making it the first major online retailer to embrace the increasingly popular but controversial digital currency. Coinbase runs a system that manages bitcoin transactions, not only for businesses like Overstock, but for about 750,000 individuals.
$25M in Financing for Coinbase
New York Times
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Dec. 13, 2013
Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, announced on Thursday that it had led a $25 million fund-raising round for Coinbase, a Bitcoin start-up in San Francisco that aims to help virtual currencies gain mainstream acceptance.
Andreessen Horowitz Buys Into Bitcoin Boom
CNN Money
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Dec. 13, 2013
Andreessen Horowitz is buying into the growing market for bitcoins. The prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm co-led by Marc Andreessen, the Netscape co-founder, is investing about $20 million into Coinbase, which provides "wallets" for the digital currency.
Coinbase Raises Largest Bitcoin Funding to Date
The Next Web
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Dec. 13, 2013
Bitcoin’s price may be rising and falling day-by-day, but the virtual currency remains a hot topic for the tech industry and investors. Reflecting optimism in the space, Coinbase — a popular Bitcoin wallet service — has closed its $25 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Coinbase to Push Bitcoin From Commodity to Currency, With $25M From Investors
The Wall Street Journal
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Dec. 13, 2013
With Coinbase Inc. raising $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others, it’s not only the largest venture round on record for a Bitcoin startup–according to Dow Jones VentureSource; it’s actually more than all venture capital invested into all Bitcoin startups combined during the past 15 months.
Andreessen Horowitz Funds BitCoin Startup
San Francisco Chronicle
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Dec. 13, 2013
Coinbase, a provider of online bitcoin accounts and transaction services, raised $25 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Bitcoin Business Coinbase Raises $25M in Funding
LA Times
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Dec. 13, 2013
San Francisco bitcoin startup Coinbase raised $25 million in its latest fundraising round, the largest amount ever raised by a company involved with the digital currency.
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam named to Time 30 under 30
TIME Magazine
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Dec. 5, 2013
A former Goldman Sachs trader, Fred Ehrsam left Wall Street to co-found Coinbase, an online payment system with the stated mission of making bitcoin, an unregulated and increasingly popular form of digital currency, easy to use. The company, with roots in the Y Combinator startup incubator, now processes bitcoin payments for the likes of OkCupid and Reddit.
Black Friday: A Chance for Bitcoin to Get Some Mainstream Love
Entrepreneur
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Nov. 27, 2013
Coinbase, one of the largest U.S.- based Bitcoin exchanges and a Bitcoin Black Friday sponsor, will be waiving its transaction fees on Friday. The exchange, which has raised more than $6 million of investment capital from major Silicon Valley players, usually charges a 1 percent fee for buying and selling bitcoins.
Bitcoins: What Are They Worth? No One Knows, But Here’s How To Buy One
ValueWalk
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Nov. 18, 2013
The exuberance surrounding the bitcoin is back. The digital currency soared to a new record high today, hitting $675 after trading in the $400s only yesterday. So how can you get in on the action if you want to invest in this highly volatile currency? Jordan Wathen of The Motley Fool say for U.S. investors, it’s as easy as opening up an account with Coinbase.
Coinbase aims to become the Gmail of bitcoin
CoinDesk
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Oct. 28, 2013
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, is a hard man to track down. It took CoinDesk months to get him on the phone. “Things have been busy!” he said.
No wonder. Armstrong is leading the charge to make bitcoin a mainstream currency. His firm specializes in services that make it easy to use.
OKCUPID PARTNERS WITH COINBASE TO BECOME THE LATEST WEB SERVICE TO SUPPORT BITCOIN
TheNextWeb
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April 16, 2013
The newest addition to the growing list of companies to support Bitcoin — which includes Reddit, Mega, WordPress.com, Expensify, Namecheap, the Internet Archive, and countless others – the dating site has partnered with Y-Combinator-backed Coinbase, a platform for buying and selling the digital currency, to expand its payment options.
BITCOIN PRICE SOARS ABOVE $9 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST A YEAR
Art Technica
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July 1, 2012
The price of Bitcoins surged this week, rising above $9 for the first time in almost a year. The increase suggests growing public interest in the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency.
Last month, we marked the one-year anniversary of the Bitcoin bubble popping. We noted that after plunging for the last six months of 2011, the price of Bitcoin had begun to stabilize around $5. But almost as soon as we published that article, the currency began appreciating rapidly. Today, one Bitcoin is worth about $9.20—a 40 percent increase in a month.
BETTING ON BITCOIN: COINBASE WANTS TO BE THE PAYPAL OF INTERNET-ONLY CURRENCY
All Things D
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June 29, 2012
Does an Internet-only currency — not backed by any government entity — have a chance to become the way merchants and consumers transact business? Coinbase not only believes so, but it has talked investors into giving it some start-up capital to build a much easier way for nontechnical users to pay with Bitcoin.