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Coinbase is reimbursing losses caused by the Ethereum flash crash
Earlier this week, GDAX, the digital currency exchange run by Coinbase, experienced a flash crash in its USD – Ethereum market. Within seconds the price of ETH crashed from ~$320 to as low as $0.10. While the price recovered quickly, the rapid price movement caused many traders to experience margin calls or stop loss orders, resulting in potentially severe losses. While many… Read More
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Crunch Report | Sprig Is Shutting Down
Sprig is shutting down, Sergey Brin is building a giant airship, Nielsen’s latest data show a ton of people still watch content on TV and bitcoin experiences an outage from all the bitcoin ups and downs. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Even the world’s largest bitcoin exchange couldn’t handle this week’s cryptocurrency boom
For those operating a bitcoin exchange — where people can buy cryptocoins — you’d imagine that the current surge in value for bitcoin and others like Ethereum’s ether coin is a dream come true. The answer is yes and no. Read More
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Coinbase adds support for Litecoin
Coinbase has just rolled out full support for Litecoin, its third cryptocurrency. Users will be able to buy, sell, send and store Litecoin from Coinbase’s website or mobile apps, using easy payment methods like a credit/debit card or PayPal. Coinbase was founded as a platform to transact only with Bitcoin, but has since announced its intent to add other cryptocurrencies. Read More
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Coinbase has added margin trading to its bitcoin exchange
GDAX, the cryptocurrency exchange run by Coinbase, has added margin trading to the platform. Eligible traders can now trade up to 3X leveraged orders on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin order books. Read More
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Circle removes ability to buy and sell Bitcoin as it doubles down on mobile payments
Launched in 2013, Circle is a consumer finance company originally built with the goal of using the Bitcoin blockchain as a payments platform. Part of that was achieved by offering customers the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin on the platform. Since then, the company has raised over $70M and slowly but surely turned in the direction of social payments. But today the company is fully… Read More
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Coinbase is adding support for Ethereum
Since Coinbase was founded in 2012, hundreds if not thousands of Bitcoin competitors (typically referred to as alt-coins) were created. But Coinbase ignored the noise and remained focused on supporting just one currency – Bitcoin. But today that changes, as Coinbase is announcing that they are adding site-wide support for Ethereum, a digital currency with a built in programming… Read More
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Coinbase eyes Japan expansion after landing $10.5M from Bank of Tokyo and others
Coinbase, one of the world’s largest bitcoin companies, has set its sights on Japan after landing funding from a range of Japanese investors, including one firm that helped Twitter set up shop in the country. Read More
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After the Satoshi Roundtable, is there a way to bridge the bitcoin divide?
The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcome scalability challenges, has balkanized the Bitcoin developer community into mainly two camps. Read More
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Andreessen Horowitz talking with investors about a new, $1.5 billion fund
The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could always close at a higher number. It was almost exactly two years ago that the firm closed its forth, multi-stage venture capital fund, Andreessen Horowitz Fund IV, with $1.5 billion. The money also… Read More
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Coinbase Partners With Shift Payments To Issue Bitcoin Debit Card
This isn’t the first bitcoin debit card in the world, but this is the first one that works with your Coinbase account. Coinbase has partnered with Shift Payments so that you can get a Visa card for just $10 and pay everywhere with your bitcoins. There are no fees for now. Read More
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Coinbase Expands To The United Kingdom With Wallet, Exchange
About six months after it initially crossed the pond, Coinbase is finally landing in the United Kingdom. Coinbase is the bitcoin wallet and platform backed with more than $100 million from DFJ, NYSE and Andreessen Horowitz and that has attracted north of 2.7 million consumer accounts. Read More
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Bitcoin’s Price Falls Further Amid Record Transaction Volume
You can purchase a bitcoin for just over $185 at the moment, a price that is down nearly 8 percent in the last hour, and 46.7 percent in the last month. Of course, you can pick any price timeframe you want, but it’s fair to say that bitcoin’s dollar value has had a rough time of it in recent days. Read More
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Shares His Vision For The Future Of Bitcoin
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. Read More
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Join Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong In Two Weeks At Disrupt Europe
Bitcoin is a global phenomenon, growing from mathematical curiosity to possible threat to the world’s currency system in a few short years. Coinbase has recently been at the center of the bitcoin boom. Flush with more than $30 million in venture capital, the company has big plans. Joining the TechCrunch crew at Disrupt London 2014 in under two weeks is Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Read More
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Wikipedia Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations With Coinbase
Wikipedia, the decentralized community-powered encyclopedia, is now accepting donations in bitcoin, the decentralized community-powered cryptocurrency. The Wikimedia Foundation partnered with Coinbase to process the donations. Also new today, Coinbase will waive processing fees for all registered non-profits. Today’s news shouldn’t come as a surprise. Back in March, Wikipedia… Read More
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Marketplace Payments Startup Balanced Partners With Coinbase And Adds Bitcoin Support
Payments platform Balanced has been gradually adding features to enable marketplaces to accept and make payments out to their users. Today the company is announcing that it’s integrated with Coinbase and will allow its customers to accept Bitcoin. Read More
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