Updated at 6:40 a.m. PT with additional details from Coinbase.
Coinbase, the least obscure Bitcoin wallet on the web, today announced a hefty $75 million raise led by DFJ Growth. This is the largest round ever raised by a Bitcoin startup, the company tells us.
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“A significant part of mainstream adoption is taking Bitcoin beyond the U.S.,” a Coinbase spokesperson tells us, “especially to countries in the developing world. Coinbase expanded to 19 countries in 2014 and plans to be in at least 30 by the end of 2015,” the spokesperson said.
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