Coinbase Around the Block sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart explores the synthetic asset landscape as well as other notable news in the space. Today, most Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications look like copies of traditional financial products. You can swap one token for another, borrow or lend...Read More
How batching payments has benefited our customers, internal operations, and the overall Bitcoin network By Brock Miller Earlier this year, Coinbase rolled out Bitcoin transaction batching. Since launching, we have batched 100% of Coinbase Consumer and Coinbase Pro customer send requests for Bitcoin. Over this time, we’ve realized 75.2% savings in transaction fees and have...Read More
Coinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart explores the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape and the emergence of “yield farming”, as well as other notable news in the space. DeFi and the Yield Farming Phenomenon DeFi protocols exploded in all metrics over the last month,...Read More
https://medium.com/media/0e9016a1eb61254843b184b0ef4e123b/href Bitcoin is often called “digital gold” because just like gold, Bitcoin is a valuable, scarce resource that’s resistant to inflation. But unlike gold, Bitcoin is digital — it can be sent globally almost as easily as sending an email — and its scarcity is known — while it’s estimated that one could fit all the gold ever mined into a...Read More
Around the Block #5: Downstream Impacts of the Recent Market Crash on Lending, Stablecoins, and DeFi Coinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart analyzes three industries impacted by the recent market crash. Lending Markets: Behind the Scenes on What Drives Rates The crypto lending markets have seen...Read More
Coinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, we analyze recent market activity and Bitcoin’s Value Proposition. BTC and other crypto assets saw a ~50% price decline earlier this month on March 12, marking the single largest one-day drop in Bitcoin’s price since 2013. These moves coincided with...Read More
Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create a compelling picture that he...Read More
A phenomenon like bitcoin can gain recognition, including regulatory, in many different and often unexpected ways. Governments that hesitate to accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender, sometimes validate their existence indirectly and even acknowledge they can be used for payments. Taxing crypto incomes and profits is one such example. Russia has just provided another one by...Read More
Eastern European countries can benefit tremendously from cryptocurrency adoption. Government officials, particularly those in Uzbekistan, see things very differently, however. According to Sputnik, things have grown progressively worse for bitcoin ant altcoins in the country. Uzbekistan Sets the Wrong Example It now appears consumers are no longer able to buy cryptocurrency in the country. Instead,...Read More
