Coinbase Fixes “Potentially Market-Nuking” Exploit, Thanks To This White-Hat Hacker

An ethical hacker notifies Coinbase of a potential exploit on Twitter. The exchange responded swiftly and sorted out the vulnerability roughly 5 hours after the notice. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, appreciates the efforts of the ethical hackers and crypto community.

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Coinbase New Update Allows Users To Share Information About Their Assets With Friends

Coinbase, the largest U. S. cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced an exciting new update for its users. The exchange’s roughly 73 million verified users will now be able to make information about their crypto holdings public.

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$1.4M in Bitcoin Remains Idle — The Curious Case of the 37-Day-Old 2009 Block Reward Spent a Year Ago

Approximately 378 days ago, before the bitcoin bull market started to heat up, a unique block was spent stemming from a coinbase reward created 37 days after the Bitcoin network launched. It seems roughly ten coins from the block reward were sold to an exchange, but 40 bitcoin worth $1.

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Tether Surpasses $50 Billion Market Cap As Coinbase Pro Adds USDt

Tether has nicked another milestone as its market capitalization now exceeds $50 billion. Exponential Growth in 12 Months Foremost stablecoin Tether has announced that roughly 50 billion USDt is currently in circulation.

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BIC’s Crypto Video News Show: Coinbase Update

Owners’ Dump Explained After the initial push that saw the company valued at over $100 billion, we next saw that insiders sold roughly $5 billion worth of stock. Among them were the CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase director Brian Wilson, and investment firm Andreesen Horowitz.

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Ripple and Coinbase Spent Roughly $1M to Lobby Washington Last Year

Disclosure forms have shown how much some crypto firms paid in lobbying efforts in 2020. Ripple and Coinbase lead the way with about a million spent. The post Ripple and Coinbase Spent Roughly M to Lobby Washington Last Year first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Coinbase Underpaid Women, Black Employees, NY Times Reports

The N.Y. Times' data included pay details for most of Coinbase’s roughly 830 employees at the end of 2018.

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Coinbase users could experience ‘intermittent delays or errors while transacting’ thanks to AWS outage

In its recently published incident report, Coinbase stated that it was investigating some connectivity issues on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro. Moreover, roughly 21 hours ago on 25 November, the exchange The post Coinbase users could experience ‘intermittent delays or errors while transacting’ thanks to AWS outage appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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$8M Worth of ‘Sleeping’ Bitcoin Rewards from 2010 Moved the Day Before ‘Black Thursday’

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.

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Celo spikes by 32% following Coinbase listing

Coinbase has listed Celo (CELO) on its platform, roughly a week after Coinbase Pro...

The post Celo spikes by 32% following Coinbase listing appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Bitcoin Cash Miner Jiang Zhuoer Answers Infrastructure Funding Questions

On Wednesday, Btc. top founder Jiang Zhuoer disclosed that five mining operations had plans to donate roughly $6 million in coinbase rewards (depending on market prices) to developers building Bitcoin Cash infrastructure.

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Coinbase Reveals Password Glitch Affecting 3,500 Customers

The rare bug impacted roughly .01 percent of the exchange's 30 million customers, Coinbase revealed Friday.

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Bitcoin Holders’ Profits Equal that of Coinbase’s Accredited Investors

Bitcoin has returned an equal amount of profits to retail investors than a cryptocurrency startup has delivered to its accredited investors in the past five years. The world’s largest cryptocurrency in early May closed above $5,000, which roughly brought its return-on-investment (ROI) up by 40,000 percent since early 2013.

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Shocking! Coinbase’s Rocky Year Just Got Worse with CTO Departure

In what has already proven to be an extremely challenging 12 months for Coinbase is shows no signs of respite. The crypto exchange’s CTO announced his departure following roughly one year in the spot.

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Coincheck Launches Bitcoin OTC Trading Desk 15 Months After Hack

The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has launched a Bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) trading service for its users, per a post published on its official blog.

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Coinbase Pro Lists Stellar Lumens (XLM)

Coinbase Pro will have active trading of Stellar Lumens (XLM) by morning. The exchange announced in a blog post earlier today that it is currently accepting deposits. They are conducting the listing in a similar manner to how they did Ripple, in stages.

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Binance Will Support USDC Trading Starting November 17

Binance — one of the most popular digital currency exchanges across the globe — has announced that it will be adding the fiat-collateralized stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to its trading platform on November 17, 2018.

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Investor Lawsuit Brought Against AT&T, T-Mobile for SIM Swapping Hacks

Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.

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Early Win for Shrem: Judge Unfreezes Assets in Winklevoss Lawsuit

In a short-term win for bitcoin advocate Charlie Shrem, a federal judge has lifted the freeze on Shrem’s financial accounts in an ongoing legal battle against the Winklevoss twins.

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As Tether’s Peg Slips, Bitcoin Price Is Distorted Across Market

Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.

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Coinbase Ditches Its Index Fund in Favor of a New Retail Feature

Coinbase – one of the largest digital currency exchanges in the U. S. – is nixing its index fund designed for accredited investors and shifting its focus to a new retail product, The Block reportshttps://theblockcrypto.

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Op Ed: Why Is There So Much Talk About a Bitcoin ETF?

An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.

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A Mysterious Bitcoin Premium Has Developed, is South Korea Making a Comeback?

Bitcoin is at a ~$40 premium on Bitfinex and Binance compared to Coinbase and other exchanges when previously they were at roughly the same price. The premium, which developed this... The post A Mysterious Bitcoin Premium Has Developed, is South Korea Making a Comeback? appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins

Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.

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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef Shows How Bitcoin Can Be Used for Social Good

Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.

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New Research Claims Satoshi Mined Far Fewer Bitcoins Than Previously Thought

Based on five-year-old research, Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike have often held that Satoshi Nakamoto originally mined some 1,000,000 bitcoin in the early days of the network.

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U.S. Crypto Investment Firm Attracts $22M in Series A, Looks to Expand Services

Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency investment firm SFOX has raked in roughly $22. 7 million in its Series A funding. The round was headed by venture platforms Social Capital and Tribe Capital and earned the participation of other firms like DCG, SV Angel, Blockchain Capital and Y Combinator.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Launches Cryptocurrency Charity Fund

On June 27, 2018, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced his new cryptocurrency charity fund, GiveCrypto. Armstrong established the philanthropic venture to financially empower people with direct cryptocurrency distributions.

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New Coinbase Additions: Ethereum Classic and Crypto Index Fund

Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund.

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