Coinbase adds paper wallets for bitcoins
Coinbase, a hosted wallet service for Bitcoin, is now letting advanced users create and print paper wallets directly from their accounts. Paper wallets offer a hard-copy, physical way to secure bitcoins offline in a way that's safe from hackers and other internet-based threats. However, Bitcoin holders need to ensure they keep their paper wallets in a safe place that's not accessible to anyone they don't trust. A paper wallet stores both the owner's Bitcoin address and private key. The owner can continue to receive funds from anyone online via the public address, but no one other than the....
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Bitcoin paper wallets are a great, simple, and secure method to store your precious bitcoins. While creating and using a paper wallet may be simple, much confusion still stands behind the how. Today I'm going to show you how to create a bitcoin paper wallet, and explain how they work. But first, let's see the positive and negative sides of a paper wallet: Positive sides. Pretty much the only way someone can steal your bitcoins (assuming your private key wasn't compromised while creating the paper wallet) is for someone to physically see the paper wallet. Easy to create. Fun way to share....
Bitcoin wallet and platform, Coinbase has added USD wallets for seven more states. When USD wallets originally launched at the end of 2014, United States residents of only 16 states were eligible for the wallets. Today, the company services a total of 22 states and 1 US territory. USD wallets allow verified users to purchase bitcoins instantly without the need for a credit card. Previously, Coinbase users had a wait time of up to 5 days for bank transfers to clear before they could access their newly purchased bitcoins. If users wanted to purchase bitcoins instantly, they had to link a....
Coinbase has added USD wallets for verified users who reside in the United States. Currently, residents of only 16 states are eligible for the wallets. The new USD wallets allow users to buy bitcoins instantly without using a credit card. Also read: Coinbase and RewardsPay Bring Bitcoin to iTunes, Facebook and Grooveshark. Buy Bitcoins Instantly Using Coinbase USD Wallets. Bitcoin service Coinbase has been quite active recently, raising large amounts of investor capital, adding a multi-signature vault that allows users to control their private keys, and expanding its global presence. Now,....
There's some pretty interesting stuff going on over at the Coinbase camp. The San Francisco-based company today put together two blog posts on a couple of features that are sure to be crowd pleasers. The first of the two is the option for Coinbase users to buy back bitcoins following check out. Quite simply, what this means is that when a user spends a certain amount of bitcoin, they can instantly buy that same amount back from Coinbase at current market rates. So if I were to spend 1 bitcoin on a new desk, for example, I could instantly refill my Coinbase wallet with the same amount of....
San Francisco-based Coinbase is looking to up the ante when it comes to being bitcoin users' favorite wallet provider. Perhaps feeling pressure from Circle over on the East coast, Coinbase on Monday introduced a little something they're calling USD wallets. Initially available to clients residing in the states highlighted below (and listed at the bottom of this article), USD wallets will open the door to new possibilities when it comes to holding, acquiring, and selling bitcoin on the Coinbase service. Users are able to deposit their United States dollars into their Coinbase accounts and....