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World Service,14 Apr 2021,26 mins

Coinbase prepares for $100 billion listing

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America's biggest crypto-currency trading platform, Coinbase, begins trading on the Nasdaq exchange in New York today. John Ethan Detrixhe, Future of Finance reporter for Quartz.com joins us to share his insights on what to expect. The BBC’s Rob Young spoke to the President of Coinbase, Emilie Choi, ahead of trading - she told us that the firm was taking a long term view. Plus, Bernie Madoff, the financier convicted of orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died in a US federal prison; we get analysis from Russ Mould of investments company, AJ Bell. Also in the programme, the US House of Representatives will discuss legislation which could see reparations paid to the descendants of slaves. Spokesperson for the National African American Reparations Commission, Dr. Ron Daniels tells us if this is good news for campaigners. Plus, as crowd-funding has become a global phenomenon we hear from the CEO of its biggest platform, Tim Cadogan. (Picture: The Coinbase logo for an US cryptocurrency exchange platform is seen on a smartphone screen with a Nasdaq logo in the background. / Credit: Pavlo Gonchar/Getty Images)

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