By Rachel Stankowski Almost a year ago we launched an option to see bitcoin amounts in bits in your Coinbase wallet. One bitcoin is equal to 1,000,000 bits, and, like many people, we at Coinbase believe that bits will eventually be the common way people send bitcoin in everyday payments.
Today we’re launching 3 improvements to our bits integration – and in addition, bits will be the default for all new customers signing up. Existing customers can enable (or disable) bits at any time on the settings page.
These changes are live today on web and will be available in our mobile apps in the …read more
Source:: http://blog.coinbase.com/2015/04/02/bits-is-the-new-default-and-all-new-users-get-100-bits-for-free/