Coinbase Launches App Store in Push for Developer Integration
Coinbase has launched an app store, showcasing firms that have integrated with its wallet service. On the firm's API page, it explains that it allows submissions from applications conducting "all major bitcoin operations", that exchange bitcoin to local currency, send and request bitcoins via email or bitcoin address, and create bitcoin wallets. It also allows merchant apps, and apps that provide access to raw bitcoin network data. Microtransactions are permitted, too. Among the first apps to be included in the app store are OSX-based wallet Hive, and Gliph, a mobile app for making bitcoin....
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Coinbase recently announced it was organizing the second Coinbase Bitcoin Hackathon, the Bithack V2. Along with this announcement, the Coinbase team also revealed the launch of the developer portal which provides information and documentation for all of Coinbase's APIs. The Hackathon is a distributed, six-week competition, open to anyone who is willing to participate. This gives the chance for developers from around the world to build bitcoin-integrated applications and to submit them for consideration. Developers will be able to access the Coinbase API to develop new applications to....
Bitcoin digital wallet and payment processor Coinbase has launched a mobile app platform for its services on Apple iOS devices. The app is now available in the Apple App Store for free and enables users to buy, sell and send bitcoins, plus manage their wallet. Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam says that the company's new app is another tool that allows people to more easily spend bitcoin. "This was one more step in our mission to make bitcoin easier to use. Now that I have the iOS app, I use it to pay back my friends when I'm out and about since it's so much easier than other ways to do it,"....
Security concerns have many Bitcoin users feeling uneasy in recent weeks after learning the new Coinbase iOS app wasn't developed by Coinbase. Instead, the app was introduced by a third-party developer not directly affiliated with the company. Though the app carries the Coinbase name and logo, users are skeptical of its origins and security standards. The Bitcoin wallet app, which is similar to previous versions recently removed from the iTunes app store, was developed out-of-house by Andrew Vilcsak, who has no official connection to Coinbase. The Coinbase iOS app. The app store page for....
Coinbase users once again have a bitcoin wallet available on the Apple App Store, following the computing giant's relaxation of rules over the inclusion of digital currencies on the platform. Surprisingly, though, the app was not developed by Coinbase, but is the work of Andrew Vilcsak - an AirBnB developer and bitcoin enthusiast. However, Coinbase has given Vilcsak's app the thumbs up in a tweet:. Great to see this community contributed app! We reached out to the dev to review the code and believe it is secure. https://t.co/hPZVSr7GOI. - Coinbase (@coinbase) June 20, 2014. No bells and....