Coinbase, the market-leading U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, was founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. At the end of October 2018, the company was valued at $8 billion. Today, Coinbase has become a huge conglomerate and formed its own investment arm. By February 2019, the exchange acquired 14 companies and invested in more than 30 startups. In this article, we will explore the growth of the “Coinbase kingdom.”

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💳 Shift Card, a debit card that enabled Coinbase users to spend cryptocurrency directly from their account, is shutting down.
via Bitcoin.com

🗓 Erik Voorhees, the chief executive officer of cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift, has announced a massive rebrand of the platform later this year.
via CoinDesk

📲 A major update of Rakuten Pay mobile application will reportedly include support for cryptocurrency payments.
via Cointelegraph

🖥 World’s leading social network Facebook is looking to expand its blockchain arm as it posts 13 related job ads.
via The Block

👨‍⚖️ U.S. District Judge Gonzalo reversed his ruling issued in late November that determined the SEC did not have enough evidence to claim that Blockvest’s BLV token is a security under federal law.
via Decrypt Media

Nouriel ‘Dr. Doom’ Roubini, a vocal Bitcoin skeptic, has criticized J.P. Morgan’s latest cryptocurrency initiative.

Craig Wright submitted a comment on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s request for input on crypto-asset mechanics and markets, claiming once again that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Brock Pierce, a well-known crypto entrepreneur, announced his plan to revive the infamous, now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt.Gox. The platform was the world’s first—and once largest—Bitcoin trading venue. What is Gox Rising, and why does the company’s former chief executive officer oppose the effort?

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“Beyond being the first distributed blockchain, Bitcoin’s major innovation was tokenizing the distributed blockchain and solving the Byzantine general’s problem (aka the double-spending problem) with Proof-of-Work game theory.”

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Since the beginning of 2019, there has been an influx of news that indicates a significant growth of the crypto market. Compared with the previous year, experts note the rapid pace of technological development, as well as the steadily growing dynamics of the market prices of cryptocurrencies. This is due to the massive inflow of capital of global financial corporations, which are not ready to further lose the opportunity to seize competitive advantage, given the surge in interest in the blockchain and cryptocurrencies in previous years. In addition to these events, DeCenter also paid attention to the latest news on the use of Bitcoin and its “colleagues” in everyday life.

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🏦 Just like Nouriel ‘Dr. Doom’ Roubini, some analysts from the Wall Street have voiced skepticism about J.P. Morgan’s upcoming cryptocurrency.
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💡 Pension and endowment consulting firm Cambridge Associates is certain that institutional investors should embrace cryptocurrencies despite the potential risks.
via Bloomberg

💻 Blockchain tech firm Blockstream has released the Schnorr-based test code for the upgrade of the first cryptocurrency’s blockchain.
via CoinDesk

🔋 Chinese Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has announced a brand new 7nm processor designed to boost energy efficiency.
via Cointelegraph

💵 Privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Beam has attracted capital from Recruit, a “Japanese LinkedIn.”
via Recruit

Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain could have made losses of around $500 million in the third quarter last year, according to the earnings report that the company submitted to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) in line with IPO listing requirements.

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Coinbase, one of the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchanges in terms of daily trading volume, has acquired blockchain analysis startup Neutrino. Among other things, the acquisition will help the trading platform identify undesirable activity such as theft and fraud. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.

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Cryptocurrency custody company BitGo has started providing its customers with a $100 million cover against theft or the loss of cryptographic keys. The offer is available through the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.

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Recent years have been marked by a steady increase in the number of individual investors in the Russian stock market. But compared with other countries, the community is not that large. Cryptocurrency trade, on the other hand, has become truly popular with the mass Russian user, despite the short history of the market and the legal uncertainty of digital assets. According to recent studies, in terms of the number of users on cryptocurrency trading platforms, Russia is among the world leaders and is second only to the United States. Is it true, and why do Russians prefer digital assets to traditional assets?

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SteemApp is an application for the decentralized Steemit social network, which is based on the idea of ​​monetization of user-generated content. At its core, the platform resembles the Medium and Reddit sites, but Steemit is based on a blockchain platform of the same name with the DPoS consensus algorithm. The rapid generation of nodes (once every 3 seconds) allows users to receive income from posts by distributing the reward from the pool. Active members of the system, who post information, receive earnings in the form of cryptocurrencies for the publication. The better and more interesting the content, the more likes, and, consequently, the higher the monetary reward.

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📑 A Bitcoin ETF proposal re-submitted by VanEck, SolidX, and the Cboe BZX Exchange has been formally published in the Federal Register.
via CoinDesk

👛 Coinbase has enabled users of its non-custodial wallet application to store Bitcoin Cash directly.
via Bitcoin.com

🎙 In a recent interview, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Bitcoin is “a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper.”
via The Block

💰 Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has disclosed all his crypto investments in a post published to an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) Reddit thread.
via Cointelegraph

🚪 Afri Schoedon, one of the leading Ethereum core developers, has quit the community over “conflict of interest” attacks.
via ccn

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trading volume, has launched public testing for Binance DEX, a decentralized trading platform built on top of Binance Chain.

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According to The Block, a major Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin allegedly offered projects at risk of being delisted an option to pay considerable volume-boosting fees.

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Blockchain security company CipherTrace has raised $15 million in a new funding round led by Aspect Ventures. Among the firm’s investors also were Neotribe Ventures, WestWave Capital, and Mike Novogratz’s crypto investment bank Galaxy Digital.

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EOS Knights is the first blockchain game (apart from casinos), which was organized on the EOS platform immediately after the launch of the main network. The creators, Seongmin Woo and MJ-Raindays, have thoroughly approached the development of the project, which is probably why more than 5,000 users from all over the world play EOS Knights on PC and iOS and Android smartphones.

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📱 New Samsung Galaxy S10 will allow users to securely store cryptocurrency private keys.
via Cointelegraph

📈 The total cryptocurrency daily trading volume has reached a 10-month high.
via CoinDesk

📉 According to a recent report from Vision Hill Advisors, cryptocurrency-dedicated funds lost approximately 20 percent in aggregate in the last quarter of the previous year.
via The Block

👩‍⚖️ Crypto startup Gladius has settled charges over an unregistered securities offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
via ccn

🇨🇦 Two Canadian law firms have been ordered by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to represent customers of cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX.
via Bitcoin.com

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office is asking victims of an alleged global Ponzi scheme BitConnect to help justice prevail.

The BitConnect coin (BCC) market capitalization once stood at $2.5 billion. Things went south after the company received two cease-and-desist letters issued from regulators in Texas and North Carolina.

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In an interview with Harvard Law Professor, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of the world’s largest social media network, revealed he is considering transitioning Facebook’s sign-in procedure to a blockchain. The move, he believes, would provide users with a better opportunity to govern their own data.

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