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January 25, 2015, 09:17:02 PM
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The Founders Youtube AMA said something along the lines of not wanting to confuse customers by adding more choices.

Bitcoin still required explanation to new people and adding another alt added extra noise.

That was their view in Oct 14. Who knows now.  The OP image looks pretty real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3OWzZSr8Nc

You'll have to find the discussion. I can't remember where it was, but its there.
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January 25, 2015, 09:44:37 PM
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https://www.coinbase.com/lunar/feature

Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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January 25, 2015, 09:45:35 PM
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I actually think this is the news:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/first-u-s-bitcoin-exchange-set-to-open-1422221641
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January 25, 2015, 09:52:01 PM
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someone wanna copy/paste the story?
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January 25, 2015, 09:52:36 PM
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This is most likely someone's idea of a joke/attempt at pump, but I do think Coinbase would increase their user base tremendously if Dogecoin was used.

I do as well. Dogecoin has the largest community aside from Bitcoin. Litecoin on the other hand is useless.

Well it seems to work alright for securing the Doge network.... 

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January 25, 2015, 09:53:36 PM
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Another first US exchange!  Great, I collect them all. 

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January 25, 2015, 10:03:39 PM
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By GREG BENSINGER
Jan. 25, 2015 4:34 p.m. ET
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The virtual currency bitcoin is getting a very real boost on Monday, with the opening of the first licensed U.S. exchange.

Coinbase Inc., a startup backed by $106 million from the New York Stock Exchange, banks and venture-capital firms, said its exchange will offer greater security for individuals and institutions to trade bitcoin and monitor real-time pricing of the cryptocurrency.

The exchange could bring needed legitimacy to the currency, which isn’t backed by a central government and is traded over virtual exchanges, primarily overseas. Coinbase said it has insurance, offering traders some assurance that their money won’t disappear.

Bitcoin enthusiasts have been buffeted by the collapse of Japan-based exchange Mt. Gox last year—taking with it around half a billion dollars of investors’ money—and a security breach earlier this month at Slovenia-based exchange Bitstamp. The value of a bitcoin itself, determined by trading on existing exchanges, has fallen to about $240, from a peak in late 2013 of more than $1,200.

“To have an organized exchange that has the backing of thoughtful venture capitalists and investors addresses one of the main problems with bitcoin: its extreme volatility,” said Campbell R. Harvey, a Duke University finance professor who has studied cryptocurrencies. “Bitcoin has been sorely in need of something like this.”

Coinbase’s founders say they have been working for five months to win licenses from state financial regulators. They have regulatory approval in half of U.S. states, including large population centers like New York and California. For now, Coinbase can do business with account holders only in states where it has approval.

Coinbase will take a small percentage—likely less than 1%—of most transactions, said Fred Ehrsam, 26 years old, a co-founder. The exchange will initially be limited to users in the U.S., but Chief Executive Brian Armstrong, 32, said he plans to expand overseas.

Mr. Armstrong said he expected to attract both individuals and businesses looking to trade bitcoin. “Our goal is to become the world’s largest exchange,” he said.

Others are looking to open U.S.-based bitcoin exchanges, including Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the twin brothers known for their early feuds with Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg .

Financial regulators, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, have been scrutinizing bitcoin recently. Benjamin Lawsky , the superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is working on a so-called BitLicense for firms looking to offer digital-currency services in the state; Coinbase is operating under earlier regulations. Mr. Lawsky’s plan is seen as a template for legislation in other jurisdictions, and it may give outsiders more confidence in the currency.

Bitcoins are created using high-powered computers that “mine” for the currency by solving complex mathematical equations. They are exchanged digitally either for currency, or goods and services. Ownership and transactions are recorded, anonymously, in a so-called blockchain, which backers say reduces the risk of fraud.

Bitcoin grew to prominence in recent years in part because of the ease with which it can be transferred.

Coindesk, which tracks the price of bitcoins, says 82,000 businesses accept the currency, double that of a year earlier, including e-commerce site Overstock.com Inc. and Expedia Inc., as well as many small retailers. The value of all bitcoin is $3.2 billion, according to Coindesk’s price index.

The NYSE invested in Coinbase during a $75 million round of fundraising that closed this month. Other investors include USAA Bank, the venture arm of Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, former Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit and former Thomson Reuters Corp. CEO Tom Glocer. Venture backers include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.

The NYSE’s investment was intended in part to “keep an eye on bitcoin as it matures as a legitimate currency,” President Tom Farley said. “Any currency relies on its acceptance.” The Coinbase exchange “is an important step for the currency to become socially acceptable.”

Coinbase counts about 2.2 million consumer wallets and nearly 40,000 merchants that use its services. The company has about 75 employees and plans to operate in 30 countries by year-end, up from 19 today.
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January 25, 2015, 10:53:26 PM
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By GREG BENSINGER
Jan. 25, 2015 4:34 p.m. ET
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The virtual currency bitcoin is getting a very real boost on Monday, with the opening of the first licensed U.S. exchange.

Coinbase Inc., a startup backed by $106 million from the New York Stock Exchange, banks and venture-capital firms, said its exchange will offer greater security for individuals and institutions to trade bitcoin and monitor real-time pricing of the cryptocurrency.

Thanks for the paste of the full article. It certainly explains why Bitcoin has bounced back from <$200.






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January 26, 2015, 01:00:07 PM
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So insider's just got a deal on bitcoins?

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February 14, 2015, 07:43:05 AM
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So insider's just got a deal on bitcoins?

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February 14, 2015, 08:23:36 AM
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if this is true,
they'll provide and give preference only for US peoples...
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February 16, 2015, 08:27:27 PM
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Bitcoin is an "altcoin", hell, it's an alternative currency to FIAT. Coinbase needs to start accepting other altcoins, or it's gonna get beaten by other exchanges, and by other altcoins, I mean anything But Litecoin or Dogecoin. Those two are completely worthless clones.
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