The head of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, Brian Armstrong, believes that in order to take digital assets, it is necessary to reduce volatility, as well as to improve the scalability and use of coins.

The head of Coinbase Exchange, Brian Armstrong, said that the Coinbase Custody service is popular and holds more than $500 million in digital assets.

The American Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase paid a reward of $ 30,000 to a hacker who found critical vulnerability in the exchange system.

It is reported that the error was registered on the portal HackerOne on February 21. A Coinbase spokesman stressed that the vulnerability had already been closed, but did not cover the details. The error report itself was also closed from public access, but, given the high reward, the vulnerability was very serious.

Coinbase and Kraken, the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, have joined the ranks of platforms that have confirmed the support of hardwood for Ethereum Constantinople, which will be implemented this week.

Two major exchanges joined Binance, Huobi and OKEx, which previously expressed their support for the upcoming update, and promise to monitor the hardforks, which will be carried out at block 7,080,000. This will probably happen on the night of January 16-17.

The American hedge fund Tiger Global, most of whose investments are related to consumer brands, plans to invest $ 500 million in the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange.

If the negotiations are successful, the company's market value will approach $ 8 billion, which will make Coinbase one of the highest-rated startups in the United States, as well as strengthen the legitimacy of the entire cryptocurrency market. There is also information that Tiger Global plans to buy out some of the shares of Coinbase shareholders, but no specific figures have been announced yet.

The Coinbase exchange has concluded a deal with the British bank Barclays and has access to the inter-bank system Faster Payments Scheme, which makes faster transfers. This should facilitate the process of depositing and withdrawing funds for British users of the crypto exchange, because before that they had to use the services of one of the Estonian banks. Coinbase also received a license from the Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) of the United Kingdom, which allows the issuance of electronic money and provide payment services on the territory of the country. Thus, Coinbase was in fact equated with the rest of the country's financial institutions, since it will obey the same requirements and have almost the same opportunities. However, the company still has to pass several additional checks, for example, on the separation of customer funds.

In recent weeks, discussions around commissions for Bitcoin transactions and the time of their confirmation have become increasingly tense. Many community members complained about unconfirmed transactions and high cost for medium-sized transactions, which often cost more than $ 30, and a transaction with a large number of inputs can cost more than $ 50.

Such large handlers of Bitcoin payments like Coinbase, Bitpay and Shapeshift warn their users about delays. Bitpay even issued a special application and notified customers that it would no longer process payments in Bitcoins for less than $ 100 due to rapidly growing commissions. However, the next day the platform changed its decision and returned to processing payments of $ 5, but noted that it still recommends making larger payments. This was achieved by sending group transactions for small payments.

The Cryptocurrency company Coinbase announced the integration with the financial portal Yahoo Finance. Now Coinbase users will be able to view their balances in Yahoo Finance applications for iOS and Android. Perhaps it is thanks to this, as well as against the background of the rapid growth of Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies in general, the application of the Coinbase cryptocurrency wallet for iOS has become the most downloaded in the American App Store, even ahead of YouTube, Facebook Messenger and Instagram in the rating of applications. Just one month ago, the application took about 400th position.