Coinbase listing is crypto’s 'Netscape moment,' says Mike Novogratz

Coinbase listing is crypto’s 'Netscape moment,' says Mike Novogratz

If Coinbase stocks were to follow in Netscape’s footsteps for its first-day listing, the price would need to rise to roughly $636. Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz compared the listing of Coinbase's shares on Nasdaq today to the dawn of a new age in the adoption of crypto.In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, Novogratz called the long-awaited initial public offering, or IPO, of the major cryptocurrency exchange’s stock shares "the Netscape moment for the cryptocurrency economy." The Galaxy Digital CEO was referring to the tech company behind one of the earliest....


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