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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crosses $11K While DOJ Takes Aim at Crypto
9.10.2020
Bitcoin crossed the $11,000 threshold, central banks enumerate "core principles" for a CBDC, Coinbase sees 60 employees walk
Coinbase VP of Business and Data Will Leave Over Mission Statement
9.10.2020
In a LinkedIn post, Vice President of Business and Data Dan Yoo announced he was leaving the company after CEO Brian Armstrong released a blog post saying the company was moving in an ‘apolitical’ direction and later offered a severance package for employees who disagreed
Coinbase hemorrhages employees following controversial culture stance
8.10.2020
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publishes further details about his company's changing landscape
5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer Over ‘Apolitical’ Stance
8.10.2020
Sixty of Coinbase’s 1,200 employees have accepted the exit package offered by CEO Brian Armstrong, according to a memo obtained by CoinDesk
Reading Between the Lines of Brian Armstrong’s Mission Memo
8.10.2020
Brian Armstrong's apolitical stance speaks to an unhealthy Silicon Valley culture where debate is shut down and substantive conversations happen underground
Coinbase’s ‘Mission’ Violates the Spirit of Bitcoin
7.10.2020
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wants it both ways: to be apolitical about uncomfortable disruptions and political about Bitcoin's mission to disrupt the world
Coinbase-backed Dapp Wallet Authereum Goes Live
7.10.2020
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Coinbase Ventures and other investors-backed Authereum, a new Ethereum (ETH) wallet focused on improving the user experience for decentralized applications (dapps), has come out of its Beta phase, the team behind the wallet announced today.
According to Authereum’s...
Huobi, Dragonfly, Coinbase Invest $500K in New DEX With Alternative Oracle Solutions
7.10.2020
CoFix claims to have better token price feeds based on a pricing mechanism derived from a decentralized price oracle and the DEX’s patented risk assessment model
Spanish Prosecution Office Investigating Alleged Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme: $1 Billion in Investor Funds Reportedly Missing
7.10.2020
The Spanish Prosecution office says it is investigating Arbistar for allegedly running a bitcoin trading scam with preliminary findings suggesting $1 billion in investors’ funds cannot be accounted for. The disappearance of investor funds has affected 32,000 families that are failing...
Markets will decide on regulations, not the government: Currency Comptroller
7.10.2020
The government is great at setting up regulatory frameworks, not building products, says Currency Comptroller Brian Brooks
Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Economy, Estonia’s CBDC Research, Coinbase’s Severances
6.10.2020
Estonia will research the viability of blockchain-based digital currency, the SEC is open to the idea of a tokenized ETF and Coinbase employees have begun taking severance packages
Crypto Long & Short: Coinbase’s ‘Apolitical’ Stance Isn’t Nearly as Simple as It Sounds
4.10.2020
Coinbase raises important questions about employee activism, plus what the BitMEX indictments say about the future of the industry
DeFi craze propels Uniswap monthly volume to $15.3B, surpassing Coinbase
4.10.2020
Uniswap processed $15.3 billion in monthly volume in September, outpacing Coinbase and signalling that DeFi is here to stay
$8M Worth of ‘Sleeping’ Bitcoin Rewards from 2010 Moved the Day Before ‘Black Thursday’
4.10.2020
Over a half a million dollars worth of bitcoin from a May 2010 coinbase reward was transferred to Bitfinex on October 1. A parser recorded the old coins being spent and since mid-February 2020, roughly 33 so-called ‘sleeping bitcoin addresses’ from ten years ago have been spent to-date....
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Hands Over Customer Data to UK Tax Authority
3.10.2020
Coinbase is handing over customer data to the British tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The measure affects customers with a U.K. address who received more than £5,000 ($6,450) worth of cryptocurrency during the 2019/20 tax year. On Oct. 2, Coinbase sent...
Coinbase Employees Have Begun to Take Severance Packages
3.10.2020
CEO Brian Armstrong and other managers at the San Francisco-based crypto exchange told employees in company- wide meetings that Armstrong had been planning this move for six months
Coinbase customers can now dodge bank withdrawal wait times
2.10.2020
New update from Coinbase quickens the transmutation of crypto into fiat
Coinbase Reportedly Warns Some UK Users It’s Handing Their Details to the Taxman
2.10.2020
U.K. users of the exchange who have received £5,000 or more in the past tax year will have their information passed to the tax authority
The avaricious misanthropy of Brian Armstrong
1.10.2020
If the mission is to create economic freedom for Coinbase's CEO, he's taking all the right steps
Blockchain Bites: Dorsey Challenges Coinbase, Nasdaq Lists Diginex, Ethereum Miners Profit
1.10.2020
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