That statement does not inspire confidence considering how ripe crypto is for hackers/scammers, if anything it makes me want to close my Coinbase account.
replyVery early in the first Bitcoin boom cycle I had a friend who was into it, so I opened a Coinbase account because I thought it'd be funny to pay him the $15 I owed him for lunch or whatever in Bitcoin. I bought the $15 on a credit card, sent it to his wallet, we had our laughs about it, and I moved on. Years later, after it became clear that the only purpose of cryptocurrencies is scams & crime, I went to close my Coinbase account just for some basic digital hygiene. Except I found out that now, they only let you log in if you have an external bank account associated with your Coinbase account. And you can't delete your account without logging in. And there's no way in hell I'm associating my real bank account with a scam & crime agency. So I'm stuck with a Coinbase account I can't close or even log in to. Lol.
replyThere's a law for that. If Coinbase did not require an external bank account to create the coinbase account, by law, they cannot require one to close the account.
At least, that is what I have been led to believe. You could sue.
replyI have to admit I'm always baffled by these "you could sue over this trivial matter" replies. Do you think lawsuits cost no time or money? Obviously I'm not going to do that.
replyYou could at least write a letter.
replyYou’re giving legal advice based upon something you were lead to believe. That’s the first problem. The second problem is that proving damages would be difficult. The third is that you’re operating in a pay to play justice system.
replyMaybe you don’t have to make comments like this?
If you joined when Coinbase was still giving 0.1BTC signup bonuses, it might be worth trying to retrieve the account
replyClosing mine today
replyGiven how crypto is the priority target for NK hackers it doesn't fare well for Coinbase to engage in such reckless behavior.
replyReckless behavior? In my crypto currency? It's impossible!
replyNot like it ever stopped the crypto industry before, if we're being honest
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replyExactly. That is completely irresponsible of them.
replyIt takes one massive breach and theft from the exchange as a result of this and they are cooked.
Exchanges never recover after billions of dollars get stolen from the exchange.
Depends on what they're shipping. We're doing this with UI work, as long as your backend is secure I don't see what the issue is personally.
replyGenerally engineers are not well placed to be building UIs.
Frontend has plenty of security considerations.
replyYou are a npm import away from having big problems.
replyYou're definitely doing something wrong if that's the case at your company.
replyLike letting non-technical teams ship production code
replyBut the claude/cursor/kiro/codex said my code was production ready, enterprise grade, and PCI/alphabet soup compliant.
replyThat is your problem right there. Instead of PCI compliance you needed that sweet, sweet IBM MCA compliance.
replyRookie mistake by your AI; otherwise it did a flawless job, and the glaze it's been giving you is 100% accurate. You are the bestest.
If one more AI calls me "insightful" or says that my question "really cuts through the noise" or "gets to the heart of the matter"...
You're totally right!
replyHow did you solve supply chain security?
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