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David Marcus, Head of Messenger at Facebook, Will Be Joining Coinbase’s Board

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I’m pleased to announce that David Marcus, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, will be joining Coinbase’s Board of Directors. David brings first hand knowledge of building impactful, trusted mobile-first products at scale. His experience will add breadth and depth to the Coinbase board and will help the leadership team as the company focuses..
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Please invest responsibly — an important message from the Coinbase team

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We at Coinbase couldn’t be more excited by the explosion of interest in digital currencies. The last few weeks has seen an unprecedented increase in the price of digital currencies. More people are engaging with our platform than ever and that bodes well for the future of the digital currency. At the same time, it..
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Getting up to speed on digital currency: our suggested read/listen/watch list

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We put together a list of articles, podcasts and videos on digital currency to share with potential candidates hoping to learn more about the space. This list is by no means comprehensive—rather, it’s an attempt to share a set of perspectives that we believe give a broad overview of what’s going on in digital currency..
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Coinbase Launches “View Balance” Integration with Yahoo Finance

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We’re excited to announce that Coinbase users can now view their digital asset balances on Yahoo Finance’s iOS and Android applications. Coinbase is committed to being the easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell and use digital currency. As such, we are focused on providing our users with an open platform so they can..
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Welcome Asiff Hirji: Coinbase’s New President & Chief Operating Officer

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Today we’re thrilled to announce that Asiff Hirji is joining Coinbase as our President & Chief Operating Officer. Asiff joins us from one of our venture capital partners, Andreessen Horowitz, where he focused on accelerating growth at a number of portfolio companies. We are incredibly excited to have him join Coinbase full time to help..
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Coinbase Obtains Partial Victory Over IRS

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Coinbase appeared in federal court this month in the continued fight with the IRS over our customers’ privacy. You can read more in this blog. We are pleased to say Coinbase won a partial victory in court today. Although the Court did not completely quash the government summons compelling disclosure of certain customers’ records from the..
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Bitcoin Segwit2x Update

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There have been a number of developments with Bitcoin Segwit2x since our last update. Coinbase is actively monitoring this situation and will make every attempt to allow customers to benefit from this fork if it results in a safe and functioning network. No action is required and all funds stored on Coinbase remain safe. Last week, the..
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Coinbase IRS Update

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Coinbase appeared in federal court today to continue the fight for our customers’ privacy rights. Nearly one year ago, the IRS initiated proceedings to obtain copies of essentially all our U.S. customers’ records for the three-year period 2013–2015. The government has never alleged any wrongdoing on the part of Coinbase. Coinbase has persistently opposed the..
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Clarification on the upcoming Segwit2x Fork

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In our prior blog post we indicated that at the time of the fork, the existing chain will be called Bitcoin and the Segwit2x fork will be called Bitcoin2x. However, some customers asked us to clarify what will happen after the fork. We are going to call the chain with the most accumulated difficulty Bitcoin…
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