Coinbase CEO: Possibility That Ether Blows Past Bitcoin is Very Real
While Ether has had a bounce in its value buoyed by the successful hard fork, it has also suffered a split with some miners sticking to the discarded Blockchain and starting their own currency called Ethereum Classic. In all of these dramatic happenings, one more piece of news that arrived was the US-based Coinbase exchange’s announcement that they would support the buying, selling, sending and storing of Ether. Coinbase Co-founder praises Ethereum potential. Medium.com carried a blog by Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Coinbase which was full of praise for Ethereum. Fred expressed his....
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Coinbase has added support for ether, the digital currency that powers the ethereum blockchain. The announcement comes just two months after the startup, which has raised $117m to date, added ether trading to its bitcoin exchange service, at which time it also formally rebranded the platform, Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX). With the news, Coinbase users can now buy or sell ether from an ethereum wallet on their accounts, as well as its Coinbase Buy Widget, announced in June. Users can also buy and sell ether using all of Coinbase's available payment methods, including credit card and....
Digital currency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has extended bitcoin and ether buying to customers in Canada and Singapore, within days after announcing the same feature to Australian users. Firmly in its global expansion phase, bitcoin and ether exchange and wallet Coinbase has now enabled its bitcoin and ether buying feature to customers in Canada and Singapore. Users in the two countries will be able to purchase the cryptocurrencies instantly with their debit and credit cards. Canadian users will be restricted to buying bitcoin and ether while not being to sell them just yet,....
Part of the bitcoin community has been abuzz regarding a tweet beer company Heineken sent out on Monday. The tweet read: "Our vision of the future? Drink real beer, pay with virtual money", with a link to the bitcoin foundation website. This left the community with a few questions. Could Heineken soon sell beer direct to consumers via bitcoin? What were they trying to say? Coinbase even responded offering to make it a possibility. We contacted Heineken to try and get some more answers, and just as most of us assumed, it was a joke with no real desire to make it a possibility. The company....
Coinbase undergoes some changes, Bitcoin can’t break it’s drug habit, and Silk Road has a heart of gold. Here’s what you might have missed in this week’s cryptocurrency news: COINBASE. Bitcoin exchange Coinbase is changing its name to Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) after announcing support for Ether trading on its platform. Why is Ether suddenly all the rage? Recently, Ethereum has launched the world’s largest crowdfunding campaign for its new DAO project, which is being hyped as the ultimate way to allocate capital. The campaign has managed to raise over $150 million USD, and....