You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees

We launched an exciting feature today: off blockchain micro-transactions between Coinbase accounts!

Here is a bitcoin transaction I just sent myself for 1 satoshi (that is 0.00000001 Bitcoin).

You can now perform all basic actions in Bitcoin through SMS

We are constantly trying to make Bitcoin easy and accessible to everyone. Some of the people who can benefit from Bitcoin the most (those in second and third world countries) don’t have a smartphone though!

Your first $1,000,000 USD in merchant processing is now free!

We’ve long believed that merchant adoption is key to bitcoin going mainstream. The next large phase of bitcoin usage will take hold as consumers spend their bitcoin with more and more merchants.

Welcome Barry Kwok to the team!

We’re excited to Barry Kwok has joined us here at Coinbase!

Barry is dedicated to building out world class teams. Most notably, he built out the engineering and design teams at Airbnb from 5 to 50 people. Prior to Airbnb, Barry built engineering…

We are looking to grow our Customer Support team!

We’ve seen our user base grow from 10,000 to 200,000 users in the space of 7 months. When Olaf joined the team, the platform had a fledging number of users. He has been exceptional in dealing with the growth of our user base, but it’s now time…

Gliph integrates Bitcoin send/receive on iOS

Digital identity platform, Gliph, has put finishing touches on their Coinbase integration which lets you quickly create a Coinbase account and send/receive Bitcoin in an iOS app (finally)!