Speculating Coinbase's Lunar announcement for tomorrow

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Quote from: xDan on January 25, 2015, 01:09:37 PM

I kinda feel it ought to have something actually to do with the moon or space. Otherwise, it's unpleasant price pumping using the "to the moon" phrase.

edit: LOL I just got rick roll'd by them:

Leads to --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROWqjuTM0g

Damn, you're right.

http://www.coinbase.com/lunar/feature
goes straight to Rick Astley.

https://www.coinbase.com/assets/lunar/spinning-dock.mp3
plays a 3min 42 sec music clip -- from Interstellar?? not sure.

coinableS

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Quote from: HarmonLi on January 25, 2015, 01:16:35 PM

Quote from: chairforce1 on January 25, 2015, 01:14:58 PM

The Winklevoss twinz are giving a speech tomorrow Monday the 26th at 12:25 PM according to this...http://www.etf.com/inside-etfs-conference/agenda.html.

With the NYSE investing in Coinbase and Coinbase flying around in spaceships I have theories.

George Kikvadze also mentioned on Twitter a BTC ETF launching on Nadaq...https://twitter.com/BitfuryGeorge/status/558097302678962176.

I have to credit the user lyth0s on another forum for leading me to this information.

So maybe a new ETF launched by Coinbase in cooperation with people active on Wall Street? Could be something like Second Market. They may be interested in offering an investment vehicle for professional traders and registered investors.

Interesting... Even Barry Silbert tweeted about this, so maybe there is a connection with Second Market??

chairforce1

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There is also this: https://blog.gemini.com/welcome-to-gemini/

Maybe that is connected as well.

EDIT: The announcement is happening at 9:00 AM EST , half an hour before exchanges open. Maybe that has something to do with it too.

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Quote from: chairforce1 on January 25, 2015, 01:14:58 PM

The Winklevoss twinz are giving a speech tomorrow Monday the 26th at 12:25 PM according to this...http://www.etf.com/inside-etfs-conference/agenda.html.

With the NYSE investing in Coinbase and Coinbase flying around in spaceships I have theories.

George Kikvadze also mentioned on Twitter a BTC ETF launching on Nadaq...https://twitter.com/BitfuryGeorge/status/558097302678962176.

I have to credit the user lyth0s on another forum for leading me to this information.

So maybe a new ETF launched by Coinbase in cooperation with people active on Wall Street? Could be something like Second Market. They may be interested in offering an investment vehicle for professional traders and registered investors.

chairforce1

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The Winklevoss twinz are giving a speech tomorrow Monday the 26th at 12:25 PM according to this...http://www.etf.com/inside-etfs-conference/agenda.html.

With the NYSE investing in Coinbase and Coinbase flying around in spaceships I have theories.

George Kikvadze also mentioned on Twitter a BTC ETF launching on Nadaq...https://twitter.com/BitfuryGeorge/status/558097302678962176.

I have to credit the user lyth0s on another forum for leading me to this information.

HarmonLi

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Honest 80s business!

Quote from: xDan on January 25, 2015, 01:09:37 PM

I kinda feel it ought to have something actually to do with the moon or space. Otherwise, it's unpleasant price pumping using the "to the moon" phrase.

edit: LOL I just got rick roll'd by them:

Leads to --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROWqjuTM0g

They surely got a nice sense of humor! And I also think they know that it's not healthy to over-promise and under-deliver. I don't think they'll go and pull a 'Blockchain.info' By hyping up a change of their background color or something similar...

damiano

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103 days, 21 hours and 10 minutes.

Whatever it's definately bigger and more important than a simple blog update since they dedicated a page to it from the main site.

xDan

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ヽ( ㅇㅅㅇ)ﾉ ~!!

I kinda feel it ought to have something actually to do with the moon or space. Otherwise, it's unpleasant price pumping using the "to the moon" phrase.

edit: LOL I just got rick roll'd by them:

Leads to --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROWqjuTM0g

HarmonLi

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Honest 80s business!

Would be awesome if they just used their money to buy large sums of BTC and driving the price up a lot. Cheesy

Well, they would effectively deliver luna by getting us to the moon!

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Quote from: coinableS on January 25, 2015, 12:01:38 PM

I want to hear what you think might be tomorrow's announcement.

Didn't the NYSE invest in Coinbase recently? There must be a connection.

coinableS

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Quote from: gentlemand on January 25, 2015, 12:06:27 PM

But they don't have a history of hyping hot air

Agreed. I'm wondering why would they would present it like this instead of an update on their blog or a tweet? Seems really strange... makes me want to buy a coin or two today, but I'm resisting the urge as most hypes I've seen previously end up being let downs.

gentlemand

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Welt Am Draht

I've absolutely no idea.

But they don't have a history of hyping hot air, unlike blockchain.info's habit of insinuating wonders that end up being very exciting for them and no one else.

It seems a bit tongue in cheek to be something truly enormous.

coinableS

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I want to hear what you think might be tomorrow's announcement.

https://www.coinbase.com/lunar

Some random guesses:
- A new regulated USD/BTC exchange hosted by Coinbase? Currently they aren't really an exchange but a broker.
- Partnership with a mutual fund company like Fidelity or Vanguard allowing people to invest in BTC with their 401k.

EDIT:

Speculation from Chairforce1:
BTC ETF launch with Nasdaq or NYSE. The Winklevoss twinz are giving a speech tomorrow.

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