Strike to offer ‘no fee’ Bitcoin trading, taking aim at Coinbase and Square

Strike to offer ‘no fee’ Bitcoin trading, taking aim at Coinbase and Square

Jack Mallers takes on Coinbase and its “asinine” trading fees. Payments platform Strike has announced that it will allow U.S. customers to buy and sell Bitcoin with almost no trading fees from today.In an announcement on July 1, Strike founder and CEO Jack Mallers launched a salvo at leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, stating that his platform will set out to be the “cheapest and easiest place on the planet to acquire BTC."The move also puts Strike in direct competition with Jack Dorsey’s Square and with PayPal, which started offering crypto assets within the platform to U.S.....


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