The United States Attorney’s Office for the Easter District of New York announced this week that Instagram influencer “Jay Mazini”, whose real name is Jegara Igbara, has been charged with wire fraud. The charges were related to a Bitcoin scheme where the social media influencer is alleged to have persuaded his followers to send him…
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Brett Tejpaul, Head of Institutional Trading at Coinbase, commented: As we focus on building the crypto-economy, we look to partner with leaders like Skrill who can white-label our turnkey solution to provide and support digital assets to their clients without having to learn the nuances of building a crypto exchange. Along with the US dollar,…
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Reporting firms, including Crypto Facilities Ltd and CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, gained access to Coinbase’s transactional information through its Application Programming Interface. At the same time, the NYSE Bitcoin Index received it directly in transmissions from Coinbase. The order found that this may have resulted in a misleading, inaccurate, or false perceived volume and liquidity level…
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Executed over several days in the first week of February this year in order to limit market slippage, Tesla made a $1.5 billion bitcoin purchase which has now been revealed by Block to have been brokered by the cryptocurrency platform, Coinbase. Up until this announcement it had been unclear who had facilitated the significant purchase,…
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Not only has Coinbase facilitated major purchases from Tesla, but its agency OTC desk also acted as the primary execution partner for a multi-billion bitcoin investment throughout last year for business intelligence service, MicroStrategy. Instead of executing client trades on an exchange, the OTC agency unit earns its commission by completing client deals directly between…
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Tagomi’s addition will enhance Coinbase’s product suite for the fast-growing institutional trading market and privde custody, professional trading features and prime brokerage services on one platform. This will give sophisticated investors the seamless and powerful trading experience. Tagomi launched 18 months ago and since then its platform has served many advanced traders, hedge funds and…
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The OMG team conducted an airdrop in 2017. If anyone held ETH balance more than 0.1 on Coinbase on July 7, 2017 at 4:36 PM UTC, they will receive an amount OMG from Coinbase, depending on how much ETH they had in their account at the mentioned time. The launch of OmiseGo (OMG) on Coinbase…
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The multi investment bank is providing cash-management and dollar-based transaction services for the two exchanges’ US customers, as well as processing wire transfers and deposits and withdrawals using an electronic funds-transfer system. Coinbase and Gemini’s customers will be able to move money between their cryptocurrency accounts and their traditional bank accounts with the transactional services…
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The Coinbase-backed crypto derivatives platform Blade has announced on January 15, 2020 that it will offer zero-fee trading for its clients beginning next month. With this service, Blade will become the very first crypto exchange that offers zero-fee trading in bitcoin perpetuals. These perpetuals are contracts with no expiration date that resemble a margin-based spot…
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Coinbase has recently settled a class-action lawsuit that was filed against the exchange by the victims of the now-extinct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy for nearly $1 million. The settlement between the Cryptsy victims and Coinbase was reached in December 2019. The exact amount of the settlement is $962,500 and it will be transferred to an escrow account.…
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