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BitPay announced Wednesday it is supporting the American Red Cross by helping the humanitarian organization accept Bitcoin donations through a BitPay-hosted Web page. The company will process Bitcoin donations without any fees so that the Red Cross will receive 100 percent of the...

Despite all of their protests to the contrast, Coinbase remains, unambiguously, a bank. You give them money, and they put it in a safe place for you until you want to send it somewhere or cash it out, at which point (fingers crossed) they let you do that. During the intervening...

Bitcoin payment processor and wallet provider Coinbase announced today it has recruited John G. Collins as its Head of Government Affairs. Collins’ US Capitol experience includes serving as a senior adviser to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,...

United Way Worldwide announced today it has partnered with digital wallet provider Coinbase to allow donors around the world to contribute to United Way’s Innovation Fund using Bitcoin. Through the Coinbase platform, which is currently used by 1.6 million consumers, 36,000...

Digital wallet provider Coinbase announced Wednesday that it is now available in 13 European nations: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain. That brings the total number of countries where Coinbase...

Today, Coinbase announced that it’s going to insure aspects of its operation against theft and fraud. It may be ironic that Bitcoin technology, which supports the most decentralized and trustless technologies on Earth also supports, among its most prominent businesses,...

As matters stand right now, the Bitcoin payment processor market is primarily split between two titans: Coinbase and BitPay. Both have important clients and large capitalizations, and both are poised for runaway growth. The question is, which one can muster that growth faster?...

Shopify announced this week that the 100,000+ merchants using the e-commerce platform can now accept Bitcoin payments thanks to an integration with Coinbase’s merchant services. Interested merchants can create a Coinbase account and adjust their Shopify settings to make Bitcoin a...

CoinBase announced today that it will be partnering with QuickBooks, a company that manufactures accounting software for small businesses, to offer Bitcoin-invoice services (called “PayByCoin”) to small businesses. QuickBooks, a company owned by Intuit, makes payroll,...

Last Saturday, during the D.C.-hosted “Bitcoin in the Beltway” conference, the CEO of OverStock.com, Patrick Byrne, announced during a keynote that his company, Overstock.com, in light of its booming Bitcoin sales, will be donating three percent of its profits from...