Coinbase launches iOS app to buy, sell and send bitcoin
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,"....
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Coinbase, a popular Bitcoin exchange and online wallet provider, has announced the launch of its Instant Exchange. This new service will allow Coinbase users to send and receive Bitcoin payments instantly. Coinbase says that the Instant Exchange will protect people from Bitcoin price volatility, since they will be able to complete transactions so quickly. From Coinbase’s official announcement: “Coinbase has long offered merchants the ability to automatically convert received bitcoin into their local currency, and now Instant Exchange is available to anyone with a local currency wallet.”....
Coinbase has announced the launch of its Instant Exchange, which will allow users to buy and sell bitcoin whilst protecting them against the digital currency's price volatility. Users with euro, dollar or pound Coinbase accounts will be able to purchase or sell bitcoin directly on the company's website. Once their instant buy or sell order has been executed, the funds will be withdrawn from or credited to the users' local currency wallet. Coinbase said in a blog post:
Coinbase customers in 24 countries will now be able to use a cash-to-cash remittance service based on bitcoin's blockchain to send money to the Philippines. By employing Coinbase's API, Philippines-based Coins.ph is allowing the wallet and exchange platform's two million registered users to send pesos to recipients in the Southeast Asian country through a variety of delivery methods. To use the service, users must place a sell order directly on Coins.ph and pay with their authorised Coinbase wallets in USD. Coins.ph then delivers the cash in pesos to the recipient through a number of....
Bitcoin wallet service provider Coinbase today announced the launch of Instant Exchange, a feature that will enable users to transfer Bitcoin while eliminating the risks associated with price fluctuations. In a blog post today, Coinbase said, "Coinbase has long offered merchants the ability to automatically convert received bitcoin into their local currency, and now Instant Exchange is available to anyone with a local currency wallet." In this latest offering, the Bitcoin company will provide two new features: Instant Exchange Send. This option allows users to send Bitcoin and pay for the....
A publisher by the name of Apptastic! LLC has released what could be the first bitcoin wallet application for the Windows 8 operating system (not to be confused with other applications that run on Windows, as this app is "designed" for the Windows 8 look). Bitcoin Tradr, as it's called, is a free-of-charge wallet that allows the end user to buy, sell, send, and receive bitcoins from devices running Windows 8 (if you haven't already gotten the gist). It's all made possible with a connection to Coinbase, which is the service used to buy and sell the bitcoins, though Apptastic! reminds users....