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Glassdoor/Coinbase Welcome to Crypto Insider, Business Insider’s roundup of all the bitcoin and cryptocurrency news you need to know today. Sign up here to get this email delivered direct to your inbox. Coinbase, the cryptocurrency trading platform, announced Tuesday the launch of an index fund that will allow investors to put money into a basket of four of the largest cryptocurrencies.See […]
Enlarge / A visual representation of bitcoin is displayed in front of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange website on February 12, 2018 in Paris. (credit: Chesnot / Getty Images) In recent weeks, Coinbase has been hit with three federal lawsuits, alleging various types of wrongdoing ranging from security negligence to wrongfully keeping bitcoins to insider trading […]
Enlarge / In this photo illustration, the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange application is seen on the screen of an iPhone on February 12, 2018 in Paris, France. (credit: Chesnot / Getty Images) After over a year of legal wrangling, Coinbase has now formally notified its customers that it will be complying with a court order and […]
Greg Kidd, an early investor in Coinbase and Twitter, just invested $ 57.5 million toward Uphold, a currency exchange that also trades in cryptocurrencies. Uphold will use part of the money as insurance for its users to guarantee that their deposits to the exchange are protected in the event of a hacking incident. Uphold will also […]
At 11:11am ET this morning, the cryptocurrency marketplace Coinbase temporarily disabled buying and selling for all currencies on its site. This came after wild surges in bitcoin’s price in the last 24 hours: It plunged from a high of $ 15,800 late last night down to a low of $ 10,800 hours ago. Bitcoin’s price […]
Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch Welcome to Crypto Insider, Business Insider’s roundup of all the bitcoin and cryptocurrency news you need to know today. Sign up here to get this email delivered direct to your inbox. Bitcoin took a hit Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, falling as low as $ 15,848, after Coinbase announced it would support bitcoin cash, […]
Enlarge (credit: The Matrix / Aurich) Coinbase stunned the cryptocurrency world on Tuesday evening by announcing that it would add full support for Bitcoin Cash, a payment network that split off from the mainstream bitcoin network in August. Coinbase users can send and receive Bitcoin Cash coins, and they’ll soon be able to buy and […]
Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch Coinbase said Tuesday evening users wouldn’t be able to buy and sell bitcoin cash four hours after it said trading of the cryptocurrency would be enabled on its platforms. CEO Brian Armstrong said the company is looking into whether employees tried to profit from advanced knowledge of the news. Bitcoin […]
Earlier this week, disgruntled members of the bitcoin community successfully split a new cryptocurrency off from the main branch. Bitcoin Cash, as it’s called, attempts to speed up transactions, a key problem with bitcoin’s aging structure. But the new alternative currency will only survive if users invest in it. Some cryptocurrency exchanges said they wouldn’t […]
