Infrastructure · June 1, 2012
Coinbase founded
Price at event
$5.28
Today
$73,538
Since then
×13928
Brian Armstrong founds Coinbase (Fred Ehrsam joins shortly after) out of Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch — the consumer fiat on-ramp that becomes the most important gateway between traditional banking and Bitcoin. (Founding month confirmed; exact day undocumented.)
⸺ Sources ⸺
- referenceWikipedia — Coinbase ↗
- primaryY Combinator — Coinbase company profile ↗