CoinBase Payment URL Handler Support Now Live

CoinBase Payment URL Handler Support Now Live

With so much negative news about exchanges like MTGox, Flexcoin and Poloniex lately it was refreshing to see something positive, on Feb 28th CoinBase went live with their Bitcoin Payment URL Handler. So far it has support for both Chrome and Firefox. I have not been able to find out at this time if Internet Explorer is going to be supported and if so how long it will be until it is. So what does this do and why is it important? What it does is makes it much more simple to send a payment in Bitcoin for a transaction. There will be no need to copy/paste followed by switching tabs to go to....


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