You can now verify your phone number with a call to your landline!

We previously only offered SMS verification to add a phone number to Coinbase (both for two-factor authentication and to verify your account).

Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase

Today at Coinbase we enabled instant bitcoin purchases for fully verified users. Fully verified users can now buy up to 50 bitcoin instantly.

You can now use Google Authenticator for Two-Factor Authentication

Another commonly requested feature has now been added! Google Authenticator support.

We went ahead and added this in addition to Authy support so that you can use either one for two factor…

Welcome Charlie Lee (creator of Litecoin) to the team!

We’re excited to announce Charlie Lee has joined the Coinbase team!

Charlie was previously an engineer at Google working on Google Play Games, Chrome OS, and YouTube. Charlie is probably best known as the…

Design Improvements

Our transaction show page got a small face lift today. Design is something we’ve historically under invested in at Coinbase, but hopefully that should be changing soon. Stay tuned for some coming updates!

Hosting The Bitcoin Meetup

We hosted the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup at the Coinbase office tonight (co-hosted with TradeHill). It was great seeing everyone and meeting more of our customers face-to-face!