Thus, from now on, users can buy, sell, store and send via Ether Coinbase account.
CEO Coinbase Brian Armstrong said this historic event for the company tweet, filmed the process of starting support Ether video.
In addition to the wallet, support the second by market capitalization cryptocurrency added to other products, including Coinbase Buy Widget, the launch of which took place in June.
In addition, as noted by co-founder and leader of the project Ethereum decentralized social networks the next generation of Akasha Mihai Alize, Coinbase updated API documentation, supplementing its instructions Ethereum integration into existing and future applications.
Recall, the upcoming addition of support Ethereum on Coinbase platform became known in May, when it was announced the rebranding of a member of the exchange project. The latter is a platform for professional traders and is now known as GDAX.
On the day of the launch kriptovalyutnoy Exchange GDAX already enabled Ethereum one of the founders of Fred Coinbase Ersam posted in his blog a lengthy article, which made quite a loud statement, which essentially boils down to is that to date Ethereum in many respects already walked bitcoin.
This happened even before the well-known events around The DAO - the largest in the history of space kriptovalyutnogo crowdfunding and followed shortly after his successful completion of the attack.
As noted in Coinbase blog:
«Ethereum is still at an early and experimental stage, and, as they grow older, will most likely be used for purposes other than bitcoin."
It is noteworthy that the addition of support Ethereum came a day after hardforka undertaken in response to the hacking The DAO. Earlier, the head Coinbase Brian Armstrong spoke in support of this decision.
Finally! This is a major validation for Ethereum. The DAO heist only made them stronger. Now can't wait for some real world applications for Ethereum. It has the potential to close up to Bitcoin.
I expect this event to be a long term gain for ETH. Coinbase had a very positive impact on BTC, making it easy to buy/sell in the US.