Coinbase Library

A Quick Note On Unconfirmed Transactions... If you noticed that your transactions were not confirming in the past few days, I just wanted to apologize and let you know that it should now (mostly) be resolved. We were working on a new feature which paid transaction fees on the user’s behalf.  We had it tested and thought it was ready to go.  Obviously it was not.  That was my fault.  And I just wanted to tell you I’m sorry. Thank you for bearing with us as we get Coinbase to a point where it’s “production ready”.  We’ll continue to update you as we make progress here on the blog. Thank you for your patience, - Brian Armstrong 

The Coinbase API Has Launched We’re pleased to announce that the  Coinbase API  is now live and ready for use.  For non-technical readers, an  API  (or Application programming interface) is a way for other software applications to communicate with Coinbase and vice versus. Authentication is based on OAuth2 (the same method used by Google and Facebook APIs) so there should be good client libraries out there for most languages.  And it’s a full read/write API which means you can create users, send bitcoins, request bitcoins, generate receive addresses, etc.  All via a simple, RESTful, JSON interface. Bitcoin, at it’s lowest level, can be a pretty complex protocol (binary data, connection to many nodes, etc) so we feel like it’s important that simpler layers exist on top of it for adoption to increase.  Simpler APIs will help spur the creation of new bitcoin apps and lower the barrier for developers to get started. The API is in version 1 an...