Coinbase is listing for US$100 billion on NASDAQ, but you might be better buying bitcoin instead
- Written by Andrew Urquhart, Associate Professor of Finance, ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Why buy Coinbase when you can buy bitcoin?Burdun IliyaCoinbase, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, is going public on April 14. The company will trade under the ticker COIN and list 114,850,769 shares on the NASDAQ with an initial valuation of US$100 billion (£73 billion).
Instead of following the traditional initial public...