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by simonebrunozzi 4206 days ago
I like your openness. What's your role at Buttercoin? Also, how do you differentiate from Coinbase?
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I'm one of the founders/CTO.

Our main difference from Coinbase is that we have an order book and real-time trading. Coinbase is great for people that want to buy some bitcoin at a fixed price and don't mind waiting a few days to get them. We focus more on businesses and traders that need to buy and sell bitcoin in real time. Adding USD is also very fast with us, usually 1 or 2 days. I think that's slightly faster then Coinbase, or was last I checked (unless you add a credit card for instant buy with lower limits). It doesn't matter as much in Coinbase's model, since they're fronting cash to lock in a price.