Coinbase Expands to the UK
We’re pleased to announce the expansion of Coinbase services to the United Kingdom, including the ability to trade bitcoin on Coinbase Exchange and to buy/sell bitcoin with GBP using the Coinbase Wallet. We are also excited to announce the addition of BTC/GBP and BTC/EUR currency pairs on Coinbase Exchange for UK users.
As part of our effort to make bitcoin easy to use throughout the world, customers in the UK can now:
Credit Euros (via SEPA), Briti…
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"This is encouraging news, even more so since it is from China and with a NASDAQ-listed company," John Matonis, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, told Mashable in an email.
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