CRYPTO INSIDER: Coinbase's plan to become the Google of crypto
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Coinbase is doing something completely new in the world of crypto: it's going on a mergers and acquisitions shopping spree.
Business Insider's Becky Peterson has the inside scoop on how the world's biggest crypto firm is using a playbook perfected by Google to transform into the one-stop shop that brings crypto to the masses.
Here are the current crypto prices:
In the news:
- Square made $200,000 trading bitcoin
- Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian thinks ethereum will increase in value by 2,000% this year
- Ripple took some criticism during the UK Parliament hearing
- Mastercard says fewer crypto purchases led to drop in first quarter
- Volatile cryptocurrencies helped boost a trading company's revenue by 284% - but the boom is fading
- How to buy and sell major cryptocurrencies using Coinbase on your iPhone
- How to buy Ripple's XRP
- An ETF veteran who ditched Wall Street for crypto explains how bitcoin can fit into a portfolio
- Track the price of nearly two-dozen cryptocurrencies here
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