Coinbase has heralded the addition of EOS at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. They noted that buying, selling, converting, sending, gain, and storing EOS would “not initially be available for residents of the United Kingdom or the state of New York.”
Hours later, Coinbase balled the launching of support for Universal 2nd Factor [U2F] security keys, “a strong way for Coinbase [and Coinbase Pro] users to protect their account.” In a blog stake, Coinbase describing U2F security chips as:
“Tiny hardware tokens [that] contain cryptographic chips that bring off the hard work of ensuring that you’re authenticating to the correct website – and that nobody else can authenticate while attempting to be you.”