If you want to buy some Bitcoin and store it online and have it on your Android phone or your iPhone, then our portfolio company Coinbase has the product for you.
But what if you own a couple thousand Bitcoin? That’s $1.3mm of Bitcoin at today’s price. Well then you might want something more secure.
Yesterday Coinbase announced Vault, a more secure offering designed for people who own a lot of Bitcoin and want to protect it and are willing to put up with more security as a result.
Like the core Coinbase wallet offering, Vault is free. It is being rolled out now and about 5% of Coinbase’s customers have it already. Coinbase told Coindesk that all Coinbase users will have access to Vault by mid July.
I like to think of Coinbase as the bank and brokerage firm for Bitcoin. They have checking accounts (wallet), CD/savings (vault), brokerage (buy/sell), and merchant services.
And more is coming. Stay tuned. I will keep you posted.
