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Coinbase Launches Subscription/Recurring Payments(blog.coinbase.com)
21 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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Coinbase now has a PHP Library(blog.coinbase.com)
1 points by barmstrong 13y ago|0 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Brian from Coinbase here. We're obviously very excited here to do our best in fostering Bitcoin's growth towards mass adoption. To those who have seen our growing pains - the full intention of raising money is to address those pain points.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Every time we add capacity, we max out again in a week or so. We are 3 people total, servicing 120,000 customers. We could start wait listing new users into the service, but there are many of them who get value out of the product as it is,
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by barmstrong 13y ago
You're right - we need to improve in all these areas. We're interviewing 2-3 people a week right now to keep scaling things out as fast as we can. At this point our only options are to grow slower and focus on reliability. Or keep up with
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Just want to mention this is mostly due to increasing awareness about bitcoin generally (as opposed to anything specific we are doing). People are getting really excited about bitcoin, which has been great for us and the community generally
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Coinbase grew 15x in the past 3 months(blog.coinbase.com)
96 points by barmstrong 13y ago|45 comments
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by barmstrong 13y ago
Ycombinator didn't fund Coinlab. You are probably thinking of Coinbase, which is unrelated to this story.
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by barmstrong 13y ago
This is a good analogy we like to use also. We also sometimes compare it to SMTP and Gmail. People used to run their own exchange servers, now it's easier to let a company worry about security and backups, and make it cloud based. This is
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Varsity Tutors Starts Accepting Bitcoin Using Coinbase(blog.coinbase.com)
17 points by barmstrong 13y ago|1 comments
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by barmstrong 14y ago
See "instant exchanges" https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payouts
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Added a response on Reddit also: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bdd8p/iama_bitcoin... Should now be resolved with all funds paid out - but the delayed response was definitely our fault as we ramp up support. Thank you for bear
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Coinbase CEO here. Just updated with a blog post: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/47198421272/data-on-public-mer... These are merchant checkout pages. Your information is not going to be shown on one of these pages unless you created a "bu
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Python Library Released For The Coinbase API(blog.coinbase.com)
22 points by barmstrong 14y ago|5 comments
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Just to chime in with that Fred said, very sorry for the delays. We added a blog post here: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/45976220890/pending-transactio... Several pieces of the site scaled up about 10x in the past month or two, and this
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The Coinbase Android App Has Launched(blog.coinbase.com)
100 points by barmstrong 14y ago|31 comments
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Part of doing the secure offline storage is that we need to use a hot wallet. http://blog.coinbase.com/post/33197656699/coinbase-now-stori... It's definitely not perfect yet, but the security benefits are important. We posted an update
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by barmstrong 14y ago
We had a display bug introduced over the weekend which showed incorrect cached balance amounts. Definitely frustrating, and my deepest apologies for that. We are working through support requests and should have a fix out for your account
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by barmstrong 14y ago
We were very surprised to discover Heroku no longer has a global request queue, and spent a good bit of time debugging performance issues to find this was the culprit. Heroku is a great company, and I imagine there was some technical reason
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by barmstrong 14y ago
This is true - unicorn masks the symptoms for a period of time but does not solve the underlying problem in the way a global request queue would. Also, if the unicorn process is doing something cpu intensive (vs waiting on a 3rd party servi
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Coinbase Is Now Selling Over $1M USD Of Bitcoin Per Month(blog.coinbase.com)
182 points by barmstrong 14y ago|141 comments
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Demo: https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons We charge 1% when you buy or sell bitcoin (by connecting any U.S. bank account). Sending BTC-to-BTC is free (we pay the minimal bitcoin fees on your behalf). We also released
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How to accept bitcoin donations on your website(blog.coinbase.com)
70 points by barmstrong 14y ago|15 comments
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Buy, send, and accept bitcoin - all from one API(blog.coinbase.com)
16 points by barmstrong 14y ago|0 comments
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Give Coinbase.com a try - you an connect any U.S. bank account to buy/sell bitcoin. (A YC company).
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Worth noting that Coinbase also does not have a fee to accept merchant payments (and keep them in bitcoin): https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons If you decide to cash out to USD the fee is 1%.
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Ok good feedback. While technically it is correct that you are sending to a single bitcoin address (your payment can actually come from multiple bitcoin addresses) I agree it's confusing and the the distinction isn't important to more
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by barmstrong 14y ago
The default is just to receive bitcoins. Cashing out to a bank account is optional and not on by default.
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Thanks for the bug report! Just pushed out a fix for Firefox. Live in 5 min. Thanks!
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by barmstrong 14y ago
Founder here - just wanted to clarify that bank username/password is not required, you can also use deposit verification. But glad to hear you're interested in accepting bitcoin. Thanks!

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