Cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, which has its headquarters in the United states announced the addition of support for the EOS (EOS) cryptocurrency at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps.
According to the exchange, buying, selling, converting, sending, receiving, and storing EOS would “not initially be available for residents of the United Kingdom or the state of New York.”
Coinbase also revealed the launching of support for Universal 2nd Factor [U2F] security keys, “a strong way for Coinbase users to protect their account.”
In a blog post , Coinbase describing U2F security chips as “tiny hardware tokens [that] contain cryptographic chips that perform the hard work of ensuring that you’re authenticating to the correct website – and that nobody else can authenticate while pretending to be you.”