Coinbase Is Severely Overvalued At 1,500,000 BTC
With an initial share price of 554,212 sats, Coinbase is an unattractive investment in bitcoin terms. Here’s why.This morning, Coinbase, Inc. ($COIN) started trading after a direct listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange, with a current share price of 554,212 sats ($349). With 261.3 Million shares outstanding, the company has a market capitalization of 1,475,878 BTC ($91.19 billion) at the time of writing. While Coinbase has played a large role in the history of Bitcoin, especially in the United States over the last decade, the company is unattractive from an investment standpoint in bitcoin....
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The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has reportedly told investors that the country’s currency is overvalued by 10%. The governor’s remarks, which have been confirmed by two unnamed sources, suggest that the central bank is planning to devalue the naira again. Another Naira Devaluation Loading As previously reported by Bitcoin.com News, in May 2021, authorities in Nigeria allowed the naira’s exchange rate against the US dollar to drop from a fixed rate of 381 per dollar to the current official rate of 410. This devaluation, which was the....
A former Microsoft software engineer and co-founder of Buycoins Africa Tomiwa Lasebikan says some Nigerians expatriates are now using bitcoin to circumvent the country’s overvalued exchange rate when sending remittances. According to Lasebikan, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s fixed exchange rate of $1:380 is robbing recipients 20-30% of their remittance value each time they retrieve funds. At the time of writing, the parallel exchange rate of one dollar to the Naira is 1:480, according to Abokifx. Similarly, importers that are hamstrung by the country’s rigid foreign....
Coinbase will soon be doing away with their $0.15 ACH fee charged on all buys and sells. The fifteen cent fee has long been a point of contention and Coinbase is making the move to bear the cost of interfacing with the legacy banking system themselves. In an Ask me Anything Coinbase AMA on Youtube, Coinbase heads Fred Ehrsam and Brian Armstrong have been asking user-generated questions pouring in from several social media founts. Ehrsam explained: Right now we pay miner's fees for our users. It's kind of the same idea. Most people probably don't want to think about them [the fees]. Also....
Gemini's crypto assets in custody have trebled this year which the exchange attributes to surging interest from institutions and asset managers, The Winklevoss twins’ Gemini exchange now has $30 billion worth of cryptocurrencies under custody as competition heats up among top U.S. exchanges.In a May 11 announcement, the exchange attributed much of the growth this year to strong demand from institutional clients: “Tracking with the impressive growth of the crypto market this year and increased participation from institutional investors, we have more than tripled our crypto under custody....
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....