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Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP

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Re: Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fee is not on the transfer, but on the conversion. ACH deposit to USD wallet is free. Converting that USD to BTC or ETH is where the fee comes in. (Why one would want to deposit USD at Coinbase and leave it there, though, is another question...)

You deposit on Coinbase and the transfer to Gdax where you can place post only limit orders which have zero fee

Right, I just learned of GDAX. I have money at Coinbase and will be taking advantage of this in the future! Thanks for confirming what I heard.

Re: Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP

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Definitely late to the game, but finally bought bitcoin this week. I've followed bitcoin since ~2010, but it's volatility and financial constraints had prevented any real action. Here are some notes if there are any other holdouts out there: I used Coinbase and Gemini. It was surprisingly difficult to get money into these places, which was a bit frustrating, but in the same sense reassuring that they are playing by t…

I have actually already created a C# Gemini API wrapper[0], if you are interested. Along with a GUI for it [1]. Both are open-source. I used my library to write an automated trading system that's running on Gemini (not open source, obviously). I like Gemini much more than it's competitors. [0] https://github.com/lazear/Gemini [1] https://github.com/lazear/Libra

Awesome, thank you for sharing, I will check it out!
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