Company Coinbase announced the addition of support for the Ethereum cryptocurrency in all of the proposed platform products, including online wallet.
So, from today users can buy, sell, send and store Ether with accounts Coinbase.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said this is a historic event for our company tweet, filmed the process of starting the support on the video Ether.
In addition to the purse, support the second market capitalization of cryptocurrencies added to other products, including Coinbase Buy Widget, the launch of which took place in June.
In addition, as noted by the co-founder of the Ethereum project and the leader of a decentralized social network of the next generation Akasha Mihai Alise, Coinbase has updated the API documentation, adding the instructions Ethereum integration into existing and future applications.
We will remind, about the upcoming addition of support for the Ethereum platform Coinbase became known in may, when it announced the rebranding included in the project exchange. The latter is a platform for professional traders, and now known under the name of GDAX.
On the day of the launch of cryptocurrency exchanges GDAX with the support Ethereum, one of the founders of Coinbase Fred Arcam posted on his blog a lengthy article which made quite a loud statement, the essence of which is that today Ethereum in many respects has surpassed bitcoin.
It happened before all the events surrounding The DAO — the largest in the history of the cryptocurrency space of crowdfunding and followed soon after his successful completion of the attack.
As noted in the Coinbase blog:
"Ethereum is still at an early and experimental stage, and, as they grow older, will most likely serve a different purpose than bitcoin".
It is noteworthy that the addition of support Ethereum happened the next day after a hard forks taken in response to the hacking of The DAO. Earlier, the head of Coinbase Brian Armstrong spoke in support of this decision.