Coinbase Is Reportedly Selling Geolocation Data to ICE

Crypto exchange Coinbase analytics program, Coinbase Tracer, will provide the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) with data about crypto users, including their “historical geo tracking data” and transaction history, according to a contract obtained by watchdog group Tech Inquiry,

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Coinbase is Reportedly Selling Geo-Location Data to ICE

Crypto exchange Coinbase analytics program, Coinbase Tracer, will provide the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) with data about crypto users, including their “historical geo tracking data” and transaction history, according to a contract obtained by watchdog group Tech Inquiry,

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Does the IRS Have Your Coinbase Data?

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Data semantics: the missing layer of your data warehouse

Learn about working at Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/careers - Medium

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Will You #DeleteCoinbase? Coinbase Reveals Its Tracking Provider Sold Client Data

Coinbase, the popular cryptocurrency exchange that’s compliant with all laws and regulations of the jurisdictions in which they operate,… The post Will You #DeleteCoinbase? Coinbase Reveals Its Tracking Provider Sold Client Data appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Coinbase’s Director of Data Science and Risk Leaves to ‘Build From Scratch’

Soups Ranjan, who worked at Coinbase since 2015 as director of data analysis and fraud prevention, has left the crypto exchange to start something new.

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Coinbase Acquires Data Collection Startup Blockspring

Coinbase, one of the most recognized companies in the cryptocurrency sector with an $8 billion dollar valuation, has acquired Blockspring, a startup focused on data collection and processing (Jan. 14, 2019).

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Coinbase Acquires Andreessen Horowitz–Backed Startup Blockspring

Blockspring, a startup that makes tools for collecting and managing data from APIs, has been acquired by Coinbase.

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San Francisco’s “Bitcoin Mafia”: How Bitcoin Started in the City on the Bay

The early Bitcoin community in San Francisco was originally comprised of revolutionaries: Individuals who believed in the freedom and opportunity that a permissionless distributed system would bring the world.

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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol

Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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Nomics Cryptocurrency Data Platform Raises $3 Million from CoVenture and Others

Nomics, a platform focused on displaying highly accurate cryptocurrency market data, including charts, prices and more, has raised $3 million from investors like CoVenture, CityBlock, Coinbase Ventures,  and others, to further develop its platform, according to a press release on December 18, 2018.

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Coinbase Ventures, Polymath and Others Back $3M Funding Round for Crypto Data Startup Nomics

CoinSpeaker Coinbase Ventures, Polymath and Others Back $3M Funding Round for Crypto Data Startup Nomics The funds raised will be used for developing new products and recruiting more people for the Nomics engineering team next year.

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Coinbase Ventures Backs $3 Million Round for Trading Data Startup Nomics

Nomics has raised $3 million from Coinbase Ventures and other investors for its plan to index 95% of all crypto trading data points.

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New Shakepay Feature Turns Your Spare Change Into Bitcoin

Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.

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Finland Hands Over Info for 2,700 Danish Traders to Denmark’s Tax Agency

Finnish tax authorities have handed over information on 2,700 bitcoin traders to its Danish counterpart, Skattestyrelsen (SKAT). According to a press release, the traders used an undisclosed Finnish exchange to collectively purchase and sell some $15.

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Coinbase Is Planning a Year-Long Decentralized Identity Experiment

The crypto unicorn is currently exploring decentralized-identity solutions, an effort that's playing out against a broader push to give users more control over their data.

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Crypto Unicorn Coinbase Is Planning a Year-Long Identity Experiment

The crypto unicorn is currently exploring decentralized-identity solutions, an effort that's playing out against a broader push to give users more control over their data.

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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

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Flipside Crypto Adds Coinbase, DCG as Investors, Aims to Offer Fresh Approach to Digital Asset Value

As the cryptocurrency market continues to expand and mature, investors are increasingly seeking ways to spot a great project from vaporware dressed up with buzzwords. Flipside Crypto will provide data on various aspects of different digital assets.

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GAB Social Network Opts To Use BitPay For Bitcoin Payments After Ban By Coinbase, PayPal And Stripe

Social Network Gab Banned By Stripe, PayPal, And Coinbase, Motivating Move To Bitcoin Payments Through BitPay Much of the purpose of cryptocurrency is to provide an opportunity to consumers to transact without their own personal data on the internet.

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Top 5 CPA Firm Confirms Funds in First Attestation of Circle’s USDC

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.

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“We Did This With Gold”: Could VanEck Be Bitcoin’s Best Bet for an ETF?

Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.

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$30,000 fee for $1 Million Withdrawal? Crypto traders Outraged over Exorbitant fee charges from Bitfinex and Coinbase

From time to time, exchanges undergo several upgrades ranging from new innovative features to system maintenance and withdrawal fee changes. Bitfinex, the world’s 12th largest exchange according to data from coinmarketcap, has updated its payment structure, but users are not in agreement with the new changes made.

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Investor Lawsuit Brought Against AT&T, T-Mobile for SIM Swapping Hacks

Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.

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Coinbase-Backed Stablecoin from Circle, USD Coin, Issues Over $125 Million in Investments

The stablecoin backed by many companies such as Circle Internet Financial Ltd, Coinbase, Goldman Sachs and more gives the impression to be the most preferred digital asset amongst numerous stablecoins that are pegged with USD.

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IRS Advisory Committee Requests Clearer Guidance for Crypto Tax Code

On October 24, 2018, an advisory committee to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a report calling for clarity on the IRS’s position toward cryptocurrency taxation.

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Report: Despite Price Volatility Blockchain and Crypto Jobs Are In Demand

Glassdoor Economic Research is delivering much needed good news to the crypto community saying that despite extreme price volatility and regulatory uncertainty, the number of crypto jobs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has risen by 300 percent since the same time last year.

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As Tether’s Peg Slips, Bitcoin Price Is Distorted Across Market

Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.

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$8 Billion Coinbase Now Has More Users Than 21 Million Bitcoins

US cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase now has more users than the total supply of Bitcoin, new data reveals. Novogratz Hails Coinbase as Crypto ‘Poster Child’ Compiled by entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Alistair Milne, the latest statistics for the company show current user numbers have hit 25 million – meaning already that not all of them will ever be able to own an entire Bitcoin (BTC) .

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Coinbase Rolls Out Crypto “Bundles” and New Educational Resources

Coinbase is unveiling a suite of new initiatives designed to expand its market. In a blog released today entitled “Helping People Understand, Explore and Buy Cryptocurrency,” Coinbase is reaching out to potential newcomers to the crypto space — people who may want to join the crypto world but are unsure about how to proceed.

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Kraken: An Overview of One of Europe's Top Bitcoin Exchanges

In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

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Coinbase Welcomes New Executives from Fannie Mae and LinkedIn

The former LinkedIn's head of analytics and data science Michael Li has been hired as the VP of data, while Brian Brooks, a former executive at Fannie Mae, has become a new chief legal officer at Coinbase.

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Texas State Securities Board Hits Russian Hoaxers with Cease-and-Desist Orders

Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles has issued emergency ordinances against three separate fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes linked to Russian scammers. The orders were issued on September 18, 2018, against DGBK Ltd.

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Coinbase Hires Senior LinkedIn Executive as VP of Data

The digital asset exchange continues its high-profile hiring streak with its latest acquisition from LinkedIn - Michael Li, who will serve as data VP.

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Coinbase Hires LinkedIn Executive as New Data Chief

Coinbase has brought LinkedIn head of analytics and data science, Michael Li, on as its new vice president of data.

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Morgan Stanley Eyes Bitcoin Swap Contracts Tied to Futures Prices

Morgan Stanley is joining Wall Street’s race toward an institutional-friendly bitcoin derivative. According to anonymous sources reporting to Bloomberg, the financial institution is devising price return swaps tied to bitcoin.

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Crypto, Blockchain Companies Shine in LinkedIn’s Top 50 U.S. Startups

LinkedIn has been keeping its finger on the pulse of the United States’ most thriving startups, and crypto organizations are showing tremendous signs of life — and growth.

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‘Blockchain Isn’t Going Away’: Graduates Flock to Crypto Courses, Citing Better Career Opportunities

Setting the groundwork for an explosive growth period, millennials are swiftly taking cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related courses, with over 42 percent of the top 50 universities offering “at least one” course about the two domains.

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New Research Claims Satoshi Mined Far Fewer Bitcoins Than Previously Thought

Based on five-year-old research, Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike have often held that Satoshi Nakamoto originally mined some 1,000,000 bitcoin in the early days of the network.

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Binance Sees Volume Growth As Coinbase Nurses 80% Drop

Binance has destroyed Coinbase and other major exchanges on volume in 2018 despite criticism of its altcoin-heavy focus. Data Reveals ‘Steep Declines’ The latest issue of monitoring resource Diar’s newsletter presents startling data from some of the best-known cryptocurrency trading platforms with Coinbase’s overall volume plummeting 83 percent in the seven months to July.

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Diar’s Research Using CoinApi Data Shows Coinbase USD Crypto Trading Has Dropped 83% in 2018

Coinbase Trading Drops 83% Since January, Offshore Cryptocurrency Exchanges Grow Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange giant is somewhat struggling to maintain its client base. While the company is consolidating its place in the market, it is, at the same time, struggling to keep some of its clients during the current bear market. The San Francisco-based firm […]

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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System

U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets.

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Ethereum Classic Price Analysis: ETC/USD Could Decline Below $14

Key Highlights Ethereum classic price trimmed most of its Coinbase gains and declined below $16. 00 against the US dollar. There is a major bearish trend line in place with resistance at $15. 30 on the hourly chart of the ETC/USD pair (Data feed via Kraken).

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Capitulation, Vitalik Buterin Calls the Bottom – Is the Cryptocurrency Bear Market Nearing an End?

Early last week, Vitalik Buterin tweeted in response to Tim Swanson, founder of Post Oak Labs, that he believes “We’re at the tail end of a crypto bubble. ” Swanson had tweeted an image of SimilarWeb data indicating a rapid decline in traffic to Coinbase.

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The Daily: Robinhood Reaches Iowa and Georgia, Coinbase Returns to Wyoming

In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief, we cover the return of Coinbase to Wyoming, the expansion of Robinhood Crypto to Iowa and Georgia, a lawsuit against an exchange for failing to give a user his BCH plus a cybersecurity research that finds cryptocurrency exchanges experienced a massive surge of user data leaks.

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Виталик Бутерин: Мы находимся в самом хвосте криптопузыря

Создатель Ethereum Виталик Бутерин, сделавший много для принятия и распространения криптовалют, поделился своими мыслями о текущем состоянии крипторынка. Об этом сообщает Сryptocurrency. tech со ссылкой на The Daily Hodl.

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Виталик Бутерин: Мы находимся в самом хвосте криптопузыря

Создатель Ethereum Виталик Бутерин, сделавший так много для принятия и распространения криптовалют, поделился своими мыслями о текущем состоянии крипторынка. Об этом сообщает The Daily Hodl. Поводом для этого послужил твит криптоскептика Тима Свонсона, указывающий на падение веб-трафика биржи Coinbase, происходившего на фоне медвежьего рынка с начала этого года.

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Op Ed: Cryptocurrency Capital Gains Taxes — Breaking Down the Problem

Capital gains on crypto transactions are easy to track, one at a time. What about when there are thousands?Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments.

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