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Looks pretty great at first glance, certainly trust Coinbase more than any other BTC player.

Kind of interesting that Coinbase is competing with itself on ways of buying BTC.

Their standard "buy" mechanism currently has BTC at ~$282, while the last trade was ~$278 on the exchange.

But they will charge a 1% fee on the exchange, which in this case would be 2.78. Another difference (I think) is that they often cancel your order as brokers (many people have complained of buying, and then when the price goes up Coinbase rejects their buy order), but not as exchange.

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