We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?

My theory has been that the scripting language in Bitcoin — the piece of every Bitcoin…

Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee and about 70 other members of the bitcoin community.

Over the last few years over $1bn has been invested in digital currency startups from venture capital firms and institutional investors. Then something odd started happening over the last 4 months. A handful of…

February 2020 note: I would say this blog post is no longer current. Coinbase is now evolving from a brokerage into a much more full featured app that includes many aspects of a wallet or bank account. Of course, we also launched a separate non-custodial wallet call Coinbase Wallet…

We’ve now seen several multi-million dollar crowdfundings done on a blockchain. Projects are raising money through the token model: selling the native token needed to use their corresponding networks (Ethereum’s ether, Augur’s Rep, IPFS’ Filecoin…

Note: Recent news reminds us that attackers continue to be active in the digital currency space, targeting not just companies but individual users. The attackers seem to be basing their targeting on information gathered from places like…

This year Fred and I have been working on articulating what Coinbase is all about.

As organizations grow, it can be easy for people to start rowing in different directions, and doing too many things. We’re about 100 people…

At Coinbase we are passionate about creating an open financial system for the world. By open we mean not controlled by any one country or company (just like the internet).