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How Coinbase gave away BTC to get its first users
In 2009, Cypherpunk Hal Finney became the first person to transact Bitcoin as well as the first maintainer of the Bitcoin software code base.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Only after CZ turned him down did Sam decide to create an exchange himself. The idea was simple: the first crypto futures exchange that was well enough designed that it would serve the needs not just of crypto people but also of big professional traders, like Jane Street. Still, Sam was deeply uneasy about it. “We were going to build a product that
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Brian Armstrong shares the Y Combinator advice that helped Coinbase find product/market fit
“The first version of a product you put out doesn’t work. In fact, that’s the only thing I’ve ever seen happen in startups. I’ve never seen a startup where the first version of their product actually worked. Sometimes in hindsight people like to tell that s... See more
Startup Archivex.comThey rolled out a feature that gave the product away to users for free if they referred five friends who signed up.