Bitcoin exchange Coinbase buys Earn.com

[felixesteban]

Digital currency exchange Coinbase is building on a recent hiring streak with a deal to buy Earn.com announced Monday. As part of the acquisition, the crypto company will bring on Earn's founder and CEO as its first-ever chief technology officer.

Before running Earn, which lets users send and receive digital currency for replying to emails and completing tasks, Srinivasan was a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Srinivasan will act as "technological evangelist" for both the industry, and for Coinbase in his new role, the company said

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/bitcoin-exchange-coinbase-buys-earn-com-for-a-reported-100m.html