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June 2012Companies & infrastructureLaunches & foundingswell supported

Coinbase is founded

A Y Combinator-backed startup set out to make buying bitcoin as simple as using a consumer web app.

The company took the position that regulatory compliance was a feature rather than a compromise, a stance that separated it from most exchanges of the era. It would later run a U.S. exchange, list on Nasdaq, and be sued by the SEC.