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Coinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can
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A source close to Plaid, the company that serves as a “data plumber” to Coinbase, Robin Hood, Square’s Cash App and many others, denied all allegations of the class action complaint that was recently filed.The entire complaint hinges on the allegation that Plaid sells user data to the “highest bidder”.
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Coinbase Commerce, a platform that supports cryptocurrency payments for internet retailers, just passed $200 million in total transactions processed over its two-year history.According to sources available to CryptoX, the wing of the largest crypto exchange in the U.S. reported on March 26 that the platform’s success was due in
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Amid an ongoing global health and financial crisis, Coinbase, one of the most popular cryptocurrency trading platforms in the United States, is losing another key executive.Brian Brooks, Coinbase’s chief legal officer will resign from the company to join the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent
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On Feb. 19, Coinbase announced that it has become a principal member of Visa. In an apparent first for the cryptocurrency industry, the firm is now able to issue debit cards without having to involve third parties. Prior to that, Coinbase had been releasing its physical cards in collaboration
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After Google removed Ethereum-based decentralized application (DApp) browser MetaMask from its Android application store, Apple may now force Coinbase to remove the DApp browser feature from its crypto wallet application.According to a Reddit post published on Dec. 28, United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase warned its users that in order
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Brian Brooks, the chief legal counsel at major United States digital wallet and exchange Coinbase, has responded to concerns that conflicts of interest could compromise the company’s newly-created Crypto Ratings Council.In an interview with crypto media outlet The Block on Oct. 3, Brooks addressed concerns that the Council’s compliance
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At CFTC, Coinbase’s Dorothy D. DeWitt will be responsible for the supervision of derivatives platforms, including bitcoin futures, swap data repositories, as well as for the evaluation of the new platform-traded products.The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has welcomed a new member to its team. They have appointed Dorothy
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In July, tech giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) announced that it was going to launch its own cryptocurrency named Libra, and since then, it has lurched from one problem to the next. Policymakers from all across the world, including the head of the US Federal Reserve and US President Donald Trump, expressed their
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