Coinbase is an exciting and unique company and as we continue growing, it’s important that we create a strong culture. A few years ago, I wrote in the Coinbase culture doc: Hire buildersWe hire people who are passionate about creating new products with technology. We look for entrepreneurs who are comfortable with ambiguity. We prefer...Read More
How Coinbase is using a monorepo to provide developers with world-class tooling, security, and reliability By Luke Demi Over the past year, the developer productivity team at Coinbase has been focused on delivering a Bazel monorepo to enable engineers to more easily collaborate across the company and position the company on industry standard tooling. Today, our Bazel...Read More
I sent the note below to employees earlier today. I’m sharing it publicly here in case others find it helpful. Continue reading on The Coinbase Blog » The post appeared first on The Coinbase BlogRead More
Companies are thinking about how and when to have employees come back to work. Due to social distancing requirements, many are realizing that they will only be able to have up to 50% of employees return to offices at most. At the same time, many companies are realizing that remote work has worked better than they...Read More
By Mike Co and Shawn Dejbakhsh Bitcoin and gold are fundamentally similar as scarce and globally accessible units of value. But gold’s recent market supply squeeze highlights important distinctions between the two assets. The recent challenges of the gold market reveals Bitcoin’s distinct advantage over gold: Bitcoin does not rely on fragile physical supply chains...Read More
By Luke Youngblood Introduction Since our launch in 2018, Coinbase Custody has been driving innovation on behalf of our clients, who increasingly want to participate in the networks that they have invested in. These new forms of network participation extend beyond providing the most secure and trusted digital asset custody available, and include activities like...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
A retrospective for companies considering React Native Source: engineering.fb.com By Ian Ownbey, Nick Cherry, and Jacob Thornton In mid-2019, we committed to rewriting Coinbase’s core mobile sign-up with React Native. This decision was motivated by a few observations: Coinbase currently supports over 100 countries. Because different jurisdictions have different regulatory requirements (e.g. Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering),...Read More
By Mike Co What gives money value? Today, the value of a dollar is not directly tied to the value of any other asset. Not so long ago, money was directly pegged to gold. Until 1971, one ounce of gold was redeemable at a fixed value of thirty five dollars in the U.S. Yet for...Read More
Yesterday I recapped the last decade in crypto. Today, let’s look ahead to the future and what I think will happen in the 2020s. Of course, no one can predict the future with much accuracy, but one way to predict it more accurately is to invent it! In short, I think over the next decade...Read More
It was December of 2010 when I first read the Bitcoin whitepaper, while at home visiting my parents for the holidays. As we wrap up the decade, here are my quick thoughts on how things have progressed. Note: this post is inspired by Fred Wilson’s post for tech more broadly. Tomorrow I’ll post a follow...Read More
On August 23, Bitcoin.com released a new application called the SLP Dividend Calculator. The new platform allows users to build a transaction to make dividend payments to any Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) token holder. Also read: How to Create Non-Fungible Assets and Collectible Tokens With Bitcoin Cash Testing the New SLP Dividend Calculator From Bitcoin.com...Read More
