Coinbase Launches Bitcoin Buying and Selling in 13 European Countries
Coinbase has announced its first expansion beyond the US market, launching bitcoin buying and selling services in 13 countries across Europe. With the beta launch, Coinbase will now allow consumers in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain to buy and sell up to €500 in bitcoin per day. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong framed Coinbase's European market entrance as the natural next step for his business, which now boasts more than 1.6 million wallet users in the US as well as a host of....
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Popular bitcoin brokerage and merchant service provider Coinbase has a two new things they want you to know about today. The first: the service is now available in five additional countries. This particular news item comes just a few weeks following an announcement that the service was available in over ten new countries. Today, the company says their service is now available in: Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland. If you just so happen to live in one of these countries, you are able to link your bank account via SEPA in order to carry out bitcoin buy/sell actions. Limit....
Last month, Coinbase expanded internationally by adding 13 European countries and today they are adding 5 more countries to the Coinbase family: Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland. Users in these countries can now link their bank account via SEPA and easily buy and sell Bitcoin. For users in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, and Finland, Coinbase raised the daily buy and sell limits from 500 EUR to 2000 EUR. Before September, only users with United States bank accounts could exchange Bitcoins on Coinbase, though anyone in the world could set up a digital wallet to hold....
Coinbase recently announced an expansion into 13 European countries and has added an additional five last week. To celebrate their launch, Coinbase is hosting a free meetup on October 20 at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen in London. The planned meetup in London is part of a larger European Bitcoin tour by the Coinbase team, presumably to drum up interest in their service. While their official website says that UK Buys and Sells are still disabled, Coinbase Tech support and emails to UK customers suggest that functionality (with SEPA) is just around the corner. Also read: Coinbase Expands to 5....