There has been significant news coverage and developments in recent weeks about changes to digital currency networks. These are sometimes called “forks”. We wanted to provide a simple, non-technical explanation to add context to recent discussions (previous blog posts here and here).

We wanted to give our customers an update on the recent Bitcoin hard fork. You can read more about what a digital currency fork is here.

Forks enable innovation and improvements to digital currency and we believe that we will see an increasing number of forks in…

Announcing instant bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin purchases on Coinbase

We wanted to give customers another update on two upcoming Bitcoin forks — Bitcoin Segwit2x and Bitcoin Gold. You can read more about what a digital currency fork is here.

This post explains what customers can expect from Coinbase in the event of a split (or fork) in the Bitcoin network. You can read more about what a digital currency fork is here.