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Bitcoin broker Coinbase booked $1 billion in revenue last ...

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Coinbase, the bitcoin trading broker that has exploded in popularity as cryptocurrencies surge and nose dive, has encountered an unusual problem for a Silicon Valley startup: Too many investors are trying to get in.

The six-year-old company crossed $1 billion in revenue last year, Recode has learned from industry sources, a tremendous rise fueled by layman...

You Can Now Buy a Car With Bitcoin and Have It - Recode

Add used cars to the list of products you can now buy with a currency that didn't even exist a decade ago.

Beepi , a two-month-old company that operates an online market for used-car sales, will start accepting bitcoin as a form of payment, CEO Ale Resnik told Re/code in a recent interview. Beepi is working with bitcoin payment processor Bitpay to make it possible.

While some niche sites allow...

Coinbase founder sent a warning to bitcoin investors ...

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We can't say we weren't warned.

A new signpost was added to the crazy financial ride known as bitcoin on Friday when Coinbase, arguably the best-known bitcoin broker on the market, sent a warning message to investors: "Please invest responsibly."

"We also wanted to remind customers of some of the risks associated with trading digital currency," Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong...

ICOs: What is an Initial Coin Offering and how ... - Recode

The drive to discover alternate ways for a new company to raise money has birthed many experiments, but none more prominent than the 2017 rise of so-called Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs.

The decades-old, tried-and-true way for a technology company to raise cash: A company founder sells some of his or her ownership stake in exchange for money from a venture capitalist, who essentially believes...

Coinbase is now the No. 1 iPhone app in the U.S. - Recode

The crazy spike in the value of a bitcoin -- from around $1,000 at the beginning of this year to more than $18,000 today, according to CoinMarketCap -- has made Coinbase, an app that lets you buy, sell and store bitcoin, a winner. As of this...

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