Bitcoin Service Coinbase Goes Global in Six New Languages
On Thursday, the bitcoin service Coinbase expanded into six new languages in an attempt to help non-English speakers become active participants in the bitcoin community. This expansion did not occur in a vacuum. Over the past several months, Coinbase has been making forays into new markets to spread bitcoin to the masses and increase Coinbase's market share. Also Read: Coinbase Gets Rid of ACH Fee. Coming Soon: 1% Flat Fee and Multi-Sig. Bitcoin Service Coinbase Goes Global. Coinbase has an ambitious plan to facilitate global bitcoin adoption. Although Coinbase is based out of San....
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Coinbase is eager to leave behind their image as a US-only company. With a rapid international expansion, the San Francisco-based bitcoin brokerage and payments processing service is expanding their reach further than ever before. On Friday, the company announced in a blog post that their services are now available in six additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, and German. Coinbase has invited users to help out in the translation process via the company's dedicated translation page. There, customers can submit feedback in terms of improving existing translations....
The Coinbase API may be coming to the language and platform of your choice, and not through the usual channels, either. A new specification for the coinbase API has been made for Swagger, a framework for generating client libraries from JSON and YAML API packages. CoinFabrik, a cryptocurrency development and consulting firm, has started an open-source project using Swagger to implement the Coinbase API on many previously unsupported platforms. The auto-generated client libraries include support for Tizen, QT 5, C++, Objective C, Javascript, Android, and over 20 other languages, frameworks,....
BTC China, logo. Have you always been curious about how messages can be imprinted on the block chain, and what it can be used for, and how it can be easily done? It is now possible for anyone to do it for a relatively small sum of money (0.1BTC, around $23 at current rates.) In return, a message not to exceed 60 letters or 20 characters in some languages will live on forever in the block chain. This makes use of the coinbase feature of blocks that are published, with Satoshi's original coinbase containing an excerpt from the Financial Times. BTCChina has done this to celebrate their fourth....
Timothy Draper, co-founder of VC firm DFJ, is putting more money into the Bitcoin ecosystem, reportedly. Coming across the wire today by way of Re/code is news that Coinbase Series C funding is being raised right now. According to sources close to the deal, Coinbase is expected to take in between $40 million and $60 million USD in fresh new capital. The new round is expected to be led by DFJ. Coinbase has previously raised $31 million USD in funding over the last few years. Since Coinbase's inception in 2012, the company has received recognition both from within and from outside the....
The folks over at Coinbase announced on Sunday that they've released a brand-spanking-new version of their application for Android, and also a new version of their merchant app on Google's mobile operating system. With regard to the standalone Coinbase app, the California-based company says it features a new user interface "with improved speed, reliability, and ease of use". The application supports a rather simple means of refreshing Coinbase's buy/sell price, and can also hide your balance, if that's something you're shy about. Coinbase says switching between accounts is now easier, and....