{"id":20910,"date":"2025-09-20T00:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=20910"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:35:49","slug":"kevin-durant-has-access-restored-to-coinbase-bitcoin-account-after-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=20910","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant has access restored to Coinbase bitcoin account after years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NBA star Kevin Durant has regained access to his bevy of bitcoins, years after getting locked out of his Coinbase account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We got this fixed. Account recovery complete,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said<\/a> Friday in a social media post, replying to a tweet about Durant being locked out of his account on the cryptocurrency exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The message comes just a few days after Durant and his agent Rich Kleiman joked about the predicament at CNBC’s Game Plan conference <\/a>in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

“It’s just a process we haven’t been able to figure out,” Kleiman said Tuesday, referencing Coinbase’s account retrieval protocol. “But, bitcoin keeps going up … so, I mean, it’s only benefited us.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Durant purchased bitcoins on Coinbase in 2016, shortly after hearing about the token several times during a dinner with his then-Golden State Warriors teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bitcoin was trading at between roughly $360 and $1,000 in 2016, CoinGecko’s data<\/a> shows. Now, the digital asset is trading at around $116,000, according to the same crypto data provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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