What is Coinbase?
Coinbase provides a simple and powerful REST API to integrate bitcoin payments into your business or application. We allow all major operations in bitcoin through one API.
Coinbase is a tool in the Bitcoin Services category of a tech stack.
Who uses Coinbase?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Coinbase in their tech stacks, including Karma, Rad Web Hosting, and Watsi.
Developers
141 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Coinbase.
Coinbase Integrations
Easy Digital Downloads, StatusTicker, Hiveage, PeachPay, and YetiShare are some of the popular tools that integrate with Coinbase. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Coinbase.
Pros of Coinbase
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Decisions about Coinbase
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Coinbase in their tech stack.
Berkay Belli
Computer Engineering at Purdue University · | 8 upvotes · 32.3K views
I'm planning to build a cryptocurrency wallet app, in the end, I'd like to also add NFT's to the app and be able to access their details (smart contract, token id, blockchain) but I haven't figured out the process on how to do this so far.
Would it be possible to do these using SDKs like Blockchain /Coinbase or should I start from scratch? If so, which kind of architecture should I use? I am hesitant to use ETH as the starting point as the transaction fees are too high for testing.
Coinbase's Features
- Buying and selling bitcoin (exchanging it to your local currency)
- Sending and requesting bitcoin by email or bitcoin address
- Accepting bitcoin payments as a merchant
- Securely storing bitcoin and creating bitcoin wallets
- Access to raw bitcoin network data (blocks, transactions, addresses, etc)
- The ability to handle micro-transactions and recurring payments
Coinbase Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Coinbase?
Kraken.io
It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to its API.
Gemini
It is an agile project tracker with issue tracking and help desk ticketing going beyond project management software. It scales for every size of team, project or enterprise.
BitPay
Once received, BitPay converts the bitcoin to your preferred currency and adds the full amount of the payment – without fees – to your next BitPay account settlement. Funds are then deposited to your bank account or bitcoin address.
PayPal
PayPal is an online payments and money transfer service that allows you to send money via email, phone, text message or Skype. They offer products to both individuals and businesses alike, including online vendors, auction sites and corporate users. PayPal connects effortlessly to bank accounts and credit cards.
PayPal Mobile is one of PayPal’s newest products. It allows you to send payments by text message or by using PayPal’s mobile browser.
Stripe
Stripe makes it easy for developers to accept credit cards on the web.
