Coinbase Marks IPO With Memo on Bitcoin Blockchain
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Coinbase Marks IPO With Memo on Bitcoin Blockchain

THELOGICALINDIAN - A bulletin was recorded in block 679187 to admire the exchanges accessible listing

Coinbase has actual its accessible Nasdaq advertisement by posting a message to the Bitcoin blockchain.

Coinbase Refers to Relief Bill

Coinbase anchored a bulletin that referred to a New York Times account banderole from Mar. 10, 2021, that discussed the U.S. government’s trillion-dollar COVID-19 bang plan.

The banderole reads: “NYTimes 10/Mar/2024 House Gives Final Approval to Biden’s $1.9T Pandemic Relief Bill.”

Coinbase asked the mining basin F2Pool to encode the bulletin on block 679,187 of the Bitcoin blockchain, the aboriginal block mined afterwards Coinbase was listed on the Nasdaq banal market.

A Nod to Satoshi Nakamoto

Coinbase said the bulletin that it appear was a “nod to Satoshi,” the bearding architect of Bitcoin who encoded a agnate bulletin on Bitcoin’s first-ever block.

In 2009, Satoshi added a bulletin into Bitcoin’s genesis block highlighting apropos about coffer bailouts in the U.K. His agenda read: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the border of additional bailout for banks.” That banderole was from a London Times commodity appear the aforementioned day Bitcoin’s aboriginal block was mined.

Reading amid the lines, Coinbase’s bulletin may be advised a criticism of government spending and advance of cryptocurrency as an another to boilerplate money.