Coinbase customer service employee arrested in connection with hacking
Coinbase Global chief executive officer Brian Armstrong said that a former customer service agent for the largest US crypto exchange was arrested in India, months after hackers bribed customer service representatives to gain...
Coinbase says crypto-buying is more like collecting Beanie Babies than investing in stocks
Coinbase Global Inc. said buying cryptocurrency on an exchange was more like collecting Beanie Babies than investing in a stock or bond.
The biggest US crypto exchange made the comparison Wednesday in a...
Coinbase now offering crypto lending service to US institutional investors
Coinbase Global Inc. has started a crypto lending service for US institutional investors, seeking to capitalise on the vacuum left after the collapse of firms such as BlockFi Inc. and Genesis Global Holdco.
Customers of...
Lawsuit accuses Coinbase bosses of using inside information to dump stock before $1 billion loss
Coinbase Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Brian Armstrong, board member Marc Andreessen and other officers avoided more than $1 billion in losses by using inside information to sell stock...
Coinbase user takes exchange to court after losing R1.75 million due to fraudulent SIM swap
Coinbase Global Inc. says it’s not responsible for losses stemming from a security breach, according to an account holder who sued in an attempt to recover $96,000 (R1.75 million) that he says was stolen...
Bitcoin recovers after brief crypto regulatory meltdown
Bitcoin traded back above the $22,000 price level as concern about a widening crackdown by regulators eases.
The largest cryptocurrency by market value jumped as much as 3.2% to $22,323 during New York trading, after turning negative...
Coinbase firing around 950 employees — 20% of workforce
Coinbase Global Inc. is firing about 950 employees, or 20% of its workforce, as the worsening crypto slump spurs another round of layoffs at the biggest US digital-asset exchange.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong...
Coinbase faces US probe over cryptocurrency listings
Coinbase Global Inc. is facing a US probe into whether it improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The US Securities and Exchange...
Bitcoin sinks to one-week low
Bitcoin sank to a one-week low on Tuesday, buffeted by nervousness ahead of a looming Federal Reserve interest-rate hike and amid harsher regulatory scrutiny of the cryptocurrency sector.
The largest token dropped as much as 5.4% on Tuesday in Asia and was trading...
IT workers quitting Big Tech for fintech
Staff at major banks and some of the world’s biggest technology giants are increasingly leaving for fintech startups, new analysis shows.
Bankers, engineers, data scientists and sales staff from Wall Street, the City of London and Silicon Valley are...
Coinbase files to go public via direct listing
Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, filed to go public via a direct listing, in what’s anticipated to be a break-through moment for the industry.
The company won’t raise any proceeds in the transaction, Coinbase said in...
Coinbase was signing up 50,000 users every day last year
Coinbase Inc., one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, was signing up 50,000 new customers a day last year, Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said at the Bloomberg Players Technology Summit in San Francisco.
While...
Alesia Haas to join Coinbase as CFO
Alesia Haas, the chief financial officer at Och-Ziff Capital Management, is leaving the investment firm after a year and a half to join cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
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Coinbase to add SegWit support
Coinbase is planning to roll out a long-awaited software update in an effort to reduce transaction fees customers pay when sending Bitcoin.
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Customer complaints against Coinbase are on the rise
The most popular online exchange for trading digital currencies is generating a surge in customer complaints this year even as investors are lured by a dramatic rise in prices.