US crypto exchange, Coinbase, just announced who will be the recipients of its Crypto Community Fund grants. The grants are given to Bitcoin developers who can contribute the most to the advancement of the coin’s underlying technology. Who won the grants? Originally announced in October of this year, the grants are set to reward Read more…
Brian Brooks stands as the leader of the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency, or OCC*, and was a former executive from the Coinbase exchange. Recently, the OCC has received a letter sent by multiple congress members, who have come to express concerts regarding his leadership and its heavy focus on Read more…
Brian Brooks, who was appointed as the new chairman of the US Office of the Comptroller (OCC) in June this year, has once again caused a stir in the crypto world with a statement. As the top bank supervisor revealed in Laura Shin’s Unchained Podcast, U.S. banks are currently looking Read more…
U.S. customers can now apply for the Coinbase Visa, a card that allows users to spend digital assets anywhere Visa is accepted. In addition to the U.S. launch, Coinbase cardholders will be able to earn up to 4% back in stellar or 1% back in bitcoin. A while back, the Read more…
Coinbase blocked 30.4 BTC from being transferred to the address of the Twitter hackers by blacklisting it However, before the address was blacklisted, 14 Coinbase customers sent a collective $3,000 worth of BTC An analyst thinks the stolen BTC were already sold and the new owners are trying to clean Read more…
The U.S. Secret Service, the federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is revealed to have been using Coinbase’s blockchain analytics service. According to the United States directory for government contracts, USASpending.gov, the Secret Service paid $183,750 for a four-year contract with the digital currency exchange that Read more…
News that Coinbase will be providing software and data to the US government has irked its users. Traders have been withdrawing their Bitcoin, pledging once again to #BoycottCoinbase. More than 2,500 BTC million has left the platform over the last few days. However, Coinbase argues that it’s providing aggregated data to Read more…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was the latest prominent member of the cryptocurrency industry who tried to pitch Bitcoin to Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling (who must have already regretted her curiosity). However, his attempt went terribly wrong since he actually tagged a bogus Twitter account. Welcome to crypto! Grab a Read more…
Post halving, the price of bitcoin has surged more than 10%. However, cryptocurrencies with small-cap have been leading after surpassing bitcoin last week. The Small Cap Index is up about 10% so far. The Large Caps Index continues to run behind which is also reflected in the market capitalization dominance Read more…
Coinbase went offline as Bitcoin plunged some $1,500 in less than an hour. Traders were met with an error message and were unable to access their crypto-assets. Bitcoin’s price collapse comes less than two days before its much-awaited halving event. For some reason, Coinbase was seemingly completely unresponsive as Bitcoin crashed less Read more…