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Bitcoin coins: Crypto trading venues such as Coinbase are benefiting from the growing demand for the digital currency
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The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is currently climbing from record to record.
The American trading platform Coinbase, which is preparing to go public in the USA, could now also benefit from this.
The San Francisco-based company announced on Thursday that it had filed a corresponding application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Coinbase is considered the largest trading platform for cryptocurrencies in the USA.
This has set the course for the first premiere of a large Bitcoin exchange on the public capital market.
When exactly this should happen and how much money Coinbase wants to raise is still unclear.
According to the tech blog “Techcrunch”, the company, which was founded in 2012, was valued by investors at around eight billion dollars in its last financing round.
The price of the largest and oldest crypto currency Bitcoin broke the $ 20,000 mark for the first time the day before and has since then soared to more than $ 23,000.
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