Coinbase investor: Bitcoin is the currency of the future
A gathering of A-list entrepreneurs, investors and Bay Area politicians -- Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit -- is set to tackle emerging issues in technology and business ... including the future potential of Bitcoin. Taking over the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay on June 16 and 17, the conference roster reads like a who's who of the tech community, including the head of mergers and acquisitions at Google, CTO of PayPal, California's lieutenant governor and the startup-friendly mayor of San Francisco. It's particularly notable, then, that a highlight of the conference is a....
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Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, recently hosted a firechat with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, to discuss the seriousness of the censorship in /r/Bitcoin, a subreddit moderated and curated by Bitcointalk administrator Theymos. The long-lasting feud between Armstrong and Theymos began on June 6, 2015, when Theymos threatened to ban Coinbase and any Coinbase related content from /r/Bitcoin, for promoting a project called Bitcoin XT, a hard fork designed to increase the Bitcoin block size. Theymos says: “If Coinbase promotes XT to customers on coinbase.com and/or switches all of its full....
Renowned investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire investor George Soros, says he has “optimism about the future of crypto money.” However, he is skeptical of central bank digital currencies and warned that the world is looking for something to replace or compete with the U.S. dollar.
Jim Rogers on Bitcoin, Crypto, and U.S. Dollar
Veteran investor Jim Rogers shared his outlook for cryptocurrency and the U.S. dollar in an interview published by the Economic Times Markets Sunday. Rogers is George Soros’ former business partner who....
Investor Jim Rogers, of Rogers Holdings fame, has said he missed the boat on investing in bitcoin. In a recent interview with China Money Network, the veteran investor said he still does not know much about digital currencies, but he admitted that he should have got on board a long time ago: "If I were smart, I would have bought it in the early days when people first told me about it. I still don't know enough about it to invest in it." Future of money? Rogers said there have always been great investments around the world, so he was not focused on digital currencies in the past.....
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, believes that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) neither has the resources nor the IQ points needed to correctly investigate crypto listings on Coinbase. Michael Burry on SEC Investigating Crypto Listings on Coinbase Famous investor and founder of investment firm Scion Asset Management, Michael Burry, briefly commented on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigating crypto exchange Coinbase Tuesday. He is best known for being the first investor to foresee and profit from the....
On September 27, the digital currency firm Coinbase announced that U.S. customers will soon be able to directly deposit their paycheck into their Coinbase accounts. With the new direct deposit feature, Coinbase customers can leverage their funds to make investments, generate yield, or add value to their Coinbase prepaid debit card.
US Coinbase Customers Will Soon Be Able to Use Direct Deposit Feature
Coinbase has come a long way since the firm was created in 2012, and now as a publicly-listed company, the crypto firm offers a myriad of services and is still one of the top....